Planting Justice: New El Sobrante nursery grows jobs, community for former inmates

Planting Justice

New El Sobrante nursery grows jobs, community for formerly incarcerated

Story and photos by Rachel Ross • Contra Costa Youth Journalism

April 30, 2026

Planting Justice, a nonprofit empowering formerly incarcerated people by giving them jobs and opportunities, recently opened up a second nursery space in El Sobrante. The El Sobrante Nursery & Farm Store is a new community space that sells everything from trees and dirt to many varieties of seedlings.

For over a century, this space was owned by the Adachi family, who closed their nursery and retired in 2017. The space was sold to a developer who planned to build a gas station at the location. However, Good Table LLC., which is the partnership between Planting Justice and a church, bought the land in order to open up a nursery, cafe, and community space. It took five to six years to build the new space, which was delayed by the COVID pandemic.