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Prisoners make mushrooms with coffee grounds
It’s been quite a journey for the mushrooms now being served at Boston Tea Party on Gloucester Road.
The cafe has joined forces with Horfield-based social enterprise project Green Shoots, with coffee grounds from all of Bristol’s BTPs and Lashings cafe opposite and on Lower Redland Road being sent to Dartmoor Prison.
As part of their rehabilitation, inmates help to grow oyster mushrooms using the grounds.
These mushrooms are now on sale in the Gloucester Road cafe, with more BTP cafes across the city due to serve them in the future. There is also the possibility that restaurants will also include the mushrooms on their menus.
Funding provision at the moment means that despite Horfield Prison being a few hundred yards away from where the mushrooms are sold, Green Shoots only currently work with HMP Dartmoor, with mushrooms grown in converted prison cells.
In the new year, however, the project hopes to start work at Eastwood Park women-only prison north in South Gloucestershire.
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