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My name's Lyndon Jeffrey Bottomley. I've been working here at Bradford City Farm for two years now. I started here on work placement. I work with the animals, and I'm also in the gardening section a lot with the gardener, Ben.

A lot of new experiences I've had whilst being here, is, before, I wouldn't touch vegetables, I wouldn't even look at them 'cause they tasted awful. And now, I'm just constantly eating them and I'm feeling so much better afterwards. A while ago I got the chance to try my first pineapple, and I was really excited about it, because I like pineapple juices, but I've never actually tried the fruit, and it turns out that the real thing is better than anything I could've bought in shops, it's just really nice, and I'm buying four a week now and just constantly eating them!

I've also started liking tomatoes a lot - really liking tomatoes - it's becoming a bit of an addiction!

One of the plants that I really enjoy from the polytunnel is the holy basil - I've been able to use it in lots of dishes - tomato and basil, cream cheese and basil ... I also tried cob nut and basil, which I thought was a really nice mixture even though a lot of people were sceptical - and I did get a bit of stomach ache afterwards cos I ate far too much of it, but it was really nice at the time - really nicely baked, but the basil just let it all go off.

Holy basil is the only basil that I do like - the rest of them I'm not so keen on cos they give me a bitter taste; but yeah I really like the holy basil. It's easy to grow, I've got loads of plants of it at home 'cause I'm constantly using it, and the neighbours come round every now and again, get a handful, bob it in a curry or something and bring some round for me to try!