UK prisons defy national salad shortage with inmates growing their own vegetables
As salad becomes increasingly hard to find in supermarkets, green-fingered inmates at The Verne, a men's prison on Dorset's Isle of Portland, have harvested their own. And it’s not just one or two: the yield included no less than 1,300 lettuces.
Lettuce, peas, onions, carrots, tomatoes, beans and peppers are among the types of fruit and veg grown by green-fingered lags, who have
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