The PRISON Vegetable Garden

[@jaydenjames100]

My daddy is one of the officers in this video, so glad everyone liked the video and its gone down well. Gardening is good for the soul no matter who or where you are in life :)

[@Lovelygreens]

Agreed :)

[@CSheri2]

I'm in Washington State here in the United States and our local Monroe Prison has also been involved for quite some years in agriculture and dairy farming. The act of hands-to-the- earth-growing, harvesting, preparing and eating good food is spiritual food for the soul. It's sacred. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

[@sallygiles132]

How fantastic is this, the prisoners that want to do this must enjoy it so much, as we all know, we do love growing stuff 🤗🤗🤗

[@lisagoldberg5178]

This is such an inspirational video. So glad the prisoners will be able to get a vocational certificate. Hopefully, this can help them get full time employment once they have served their time. Thank you for doing this video.

[@Lovelygreens]

Thank you for watching, and I'm sure the prison would be appreciative of your support 🙂

[@carlamathurin2941]

Absolutely excellent video. I only wish every prison could grow their own. So many pluses. I used to work with ex-offenders and they loved working outside in physical work because they said it kept them fit and they went to bed tired which kept them out of trouble, their words!

[@Lovelygreens]

The prison governor expressed to me that the programme is all about rehabilitation, education, and resettlement plans that include a job and a home. 95% of offenders don't come back if they have those two things.

[@TheMrWoodsman]

I also live on the Isle of Man and had no idea This was happening , thank you for this video.

[@judya.shroads8245]

Putting pride back in a prisoner's life must be like sunshine every day they're working in the garden. Great work.

[@willowcoulter8274]

This was such a Beautiful, inspiring story. I am glad you shared it with us. Thank You.

[@Lovelygreens]

I'm glad it touched you Willow. It's a GREAT programme they have.

[@iracnia7]

Fantastic, it's a win win for everyone. This is the best video I have watched in a long time.

[@krzysztofkacprzak7986]

The ultimate walled in garden. Absolutely amazing! And yes, very smart use of space and Human Resources.

[@maryfisher35]

Thank you for sharing this video. Giving inmates new skills must surely impact on reduction to reoffending. Wish every prison adopted similar programs.

[@nancyword3814]

Such a positive video,and a wonderful, healthy concept. Hopefully, this was will become a widespread practice!! Seems as tho it's a true example of rehabilitation!!! Thanks for sharing this!!

[@Lovelygreens]

I'm so glad you feel the same Nancy! It's a fantastic programme and so many positive things can come of it.

[@ourfloridagarden4191]

This was wonderful and something that should be done in every prison.

[@brucedownunda7054]

A SAFFA on the Isle of Man ? Who would have thought. Great initiative. A Self sustainable community working and being trained while paying back their debt to society.

[@DC-fo3bn]

The prison on the Isle of Man is known for its innovative and highly effective rehabilitation. You humanising the men just adds to that success. I loved this video.

[@rickshaw296]

What a fantastic program. I enormously support efforts like this.

[@dianed3491]

Thanks for sharing this. What a great program, you can see all the hard work and care they have put into that wonderful garden.

[@Lovelygreens]

Granted they have very little distractions there but the eight prisoners who work in the gardens work very hard.

[@grantwhite7337]

Outside work is good for all whether it may be mental illness, someone who has gone astray or got lost along the way. I find as an everyday person gardening is my therapy to deal with my outside world demons and stresses. It’s such a release. 💕⭐️ regards Maria

[@seanstack2712]

Great subject matter, adding to the already great content on your channel. It is a key part of a time capsule for the wider community on the Isle of Man and inspiring for us over here in Ireland. Well done.

[@paultebuseeke3280]

Very impressed with the beautiful vegetables in the prison gardens, thanks for sharing your visit there to me it's like home given the ambiance of the whole garden.

[@-Jakob-]

Tanya, thank you so much for this wonderful and interesting look behind the iron curtain, gardening is such a perfect project for places like this...

[@lovnbnhome]

Fantastic program! Thank you!

[@marygorchidsmore2058]

Interesting video! Very good and productive programme! Thanks for sharing.

[@sarahhollingshead6289]

So interesting. Thank you for covering and sharing this!

[@Lovelygreens]

Thanks for giving it your time and attention :)

[@SH-nx7kc]

What a brilliant scheme, getting inmates to spend their time in a productive and beneficial manner. I hope other prisons will be inspired to do something similar.

[@missourigirl4101]

Thanks for sharing this great story. Great job on videography as well. We have a prison in our town that us on the grounds of a state. Entail health center that is very old. I worked at both the prison and mental health center and my husband still works for MH. In the beginning the mental health center was a dairy farm and had gardens as well. We have asked many times why are we not gardening on the prison grounds to feed the inmates and cut our state budget. There is a small amount of flower gardening going on but there is a fear of allowing tools and such as we house level 4/5 inmates. We have been in some dangerous situations with them but oh I wish we could garden safely

[@Lovelygreens]

I can see where that could get hairy. As far as the IOM prison - some prisoners have to be supervised and some not.

[@giannagian5290]

It's such an excellent idea. They have a nature that they create, fresh food and satisfaction that they did it for themselves, bravo to them.

[@birchandrose]

I enjoy reading your posts and watching your videos on Lovely Greens. Your inspiration is awesome. I've been making soap for a few years and love your recipes and tips. Great video from the prison.

[@jackiehorsley9263]

wow love the garden Its so amazing to see all the vegetables being grown there You don,t see that to much anymore

[@janwilletts1986]

Thanks for showing this. I have worked in several prisons, including female ones.the farms and gardens offer valuable work skills and prisoners always value their time there. Lots of prisons have been sold off for their land and smaller more intense units seem to be the norm, with little space for gardens, very short sighted in my view.

[@KMalcolmful]

Wonderful program. There's a similar one here in my home state of Rhode Island in the USA.

[@kntshovary]

That was great! I do think that this is a program that should be implemented in all institutions to help people learn a skill that they can use once they are out to do something that they would never have thought of before. Thanks for the video. I do hope they put in more flowers in the garden though to bring in the pollinators. And, a little bit if beauty is good for the soul too.

[@Lovelygreens]

There are flowers but yes, every garden would benefit from having more :)

[@billbird6494]

Very interesting, I guess it does make sense for vetted prisoners to be trained and given an alternative to their previous life.

[@Lovelygreens]

Agree wholeheartedly. Without some sort of education or vocational training these guys might find themselves back behind bars. That's good for them and great for the rest of the community.

[@JONTIE0168]

Nice to see another side to gardening.

[@vincentbynumbers]

love this video... thank you for making and sharing it!! :D

[@carolcurley7840]

WHAT A GREAT PROGRAMME and video. Just found your channel through Lavender and Leeks. Now subscribed and may just have to do a bit of binge viewing lol.

[@Tepig099]

Very interesting Lovely thanks for sharing this.

[@barirdeeee2]

Lovely video, a really nice story

[@Lovelygreens]

There are so many positive things to take away from this program. I've also heard that the prison once again swept up at the Sulby Horticultural Show

[@lincashin1187]

What an inspiring story, the kind of story I watch until the end. Its unfortunate for someone to end up in prison but if you end up there and there is a place to learn something like this it may help you so much more when you get your release. As the officer said one guy got employed after his release to work in a restaurant. It gives them a sense of seeing that there is more to life and they can contribute in a good way. Thank you for this video.

[@omfug7148]

super interesting we do have some prison garden programs here in the states but not enough

[@mitche499]

Very good video, I like this program and wish all prisons could do the same, however not so sure it would work with a large prison though. Good job!! :-)

[@helenprocessofgrowing8007]

A great programme..and a very interesting video.

[@Lovelygreens]

Glad you liked it!

[@LisaD6563]

I always thought of this! So good to see that prisons are making a difference. So many have no good in their lives ..many born into it. This is therapeutic and spiritually rewarding. God is Good!

[@IamAntiqueNa_girl]

Great job😘

[@billhiggins3845]

Really loved travelling with you today ♥️👍

[@centpushups]

Should add fish farms and chickens.

[@SenyorrrrChingonn]

Kinda looks like Rick's garden at the prison in the walking dead lol

[@timothybyrne7031]

Great video! That's an awesome program they have there. Too bad not every prison has it, but I guess based on the culture of the prisoners in the larger prison makes it tougher to do. I'm learning more and more of the Isle of Man.

[@MsRavens55]

Awesome video💛

[@pennythompson4790]

Thats so brilliant for the inmatesxx

[@sandymurray3997]

Fabulous

[@Anita-rd9xr]

waw, amazing!

[@allotmental.]

Thats quite a small prison, I wonder if all inmates are from the Isle as I thought it was a safe place!! Good to see though :-)

[@Lovelygreens]

All are from the Island but there are less than 100 inmates. I understand that a lot of them are in there for traffic violations but couldn’t give a statistic on that. As far as the Island being safe, every place on earth has troubled people.

[@jish55]

This is what inmates should be doing, growing their own vegitables, train and raise service dogs, provide companionship at retirement homes and serving at the soup kitchen, not forced to do slave labor so the economy benefits of them. They're in prison to be reformed, not used as slaves damnit, and it's time we treat them as people again and not numbers in a system.

[@marianarc6578]

Me gustaria que tuviera subtitulos en español, hay muchas personas que no sabemos bien ingles y nos gusta mucho sus videos.

[@daniellescott477]

🤗🤗🤗

[@beehippie]

Actually

[@MrMush78]

Dont agree with this one bit they are in prison because they commited a crime and should be punished not rewarded by being able to grow there own and keeping bees !!!

[@Lovelygreens]

Phil Naylor This isn’t rewarding prisoners, it’s protecting the community and saving taxpayers money. Every person in this prison will within a few months to under 20 years be back on the streets again. What type of person would you like to see in your community? One that’s on a path to a different future or someone who has a high chance of reoffending? As governor McColm says, giving prisoners a way to have a job and a home cuts reoffending down by 95%.

[@cspower7259]

Yes i fully agree. I can understand what its trying to do and i hope it works. Still aint right tho they get given everything on a plate (House, training, job and money). While their victims suffer in silence with no support.