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Hello 6.35 am Swallows are already flying high Diving down over our flowering comfrey LandWorks is open And I catch a slightly odd smell. I treasure this first hour Not sure I want to admit it,…

Hello “Could I have a word, I’m feeling a bit paranoid, you know, not sure if I’m gonna do it, do you think I can this time?” You can imagine the Daily Newspaper headline… ‘Old lag…

Hello Market gardening? Lovely bit of growing, cash cropping, selling straight to the customer, supplying the veg you want, just need to be good at timing… Hmm well, timings not always been my strong point and…

Hello “He’s gone, he’s f**king run off!” His face screws up all contorted, squeezing out an accusation: “I f**king told you this would happen…” I am trying to avoid his eyes while I think. This looks…

Hello The following is something that I would have liked my younger self to read, that sunny morning three years ago in July 2013. I was sitting in my van staring at the prison gates; waiting…

Hello I keep meaning to tell you; I bumped into James the other evening. It’s more or less a year since his release from prison and nearly two years since he first started at LandWorks. He…

Hello Beautiful mid-May morning, I am aimlessly pushing an old nail into the soft planking (that makes up our table), sort of buying time while I think of a reply. I’m not really an expert on…

Hello He lifts his head slowly off the table; one eye fixed on me. “It’s a bit wing wang this morning Chris.” This was not the Monday morning motivational atmosphere I had planned to create. The…

In Chris’s latest blog, he is indebted to a Mrs Trellis from Torquay who had some useful thoughts about LandWorks – and a pertinent question about the ‘looming structure’ in Quarry Field…

“Chris can you describe me, you know, what you see now, in a few words?” At that precise moment my thoughts were more around tea break. So I wasn’t ready for such a profound question nor…

LandWorks is an independent charity providing a supported route back into the community for current and ex-prisoners.

LandWorks is an independent charity providing a supported route back into the community for current and ex-prisoners.