Heads of lettuce floated in beds of water on the ground. Tilapia teemed in a tank. What kind of place was this to be checking off court-ordered community service hours?
And inside this aquaponic garden, how would members of Mountain Springs Church accept a recovering drug addict fresh out of jail?
"It was kind of like, where do I fit in?" Zamora recalls. "I felt lower than everybody else, like I was this terrible person.
"But they were very accepting and welcoming. They brought me right in."
So she's continued to come for the morning harvest most every Saturday, when volunteers sow new seeds and bag the fully grown lettuce heads, to be delivered to eight ministries and pantries around town.