Longer evenings not only mean more Vitamin D benefits for our bodies and minds, but different fruit and veg is being grown! Rocket, kale, beetroot and morel mushrooms make their 2024 debut onto our free food planner this month. Check out what local produce you should be buying:
Purple-sprouting broccoli – what a jolly magnificent veg! Even more magnificent is our free food planner listing all the in-season produce available from farms and greengrocers in the UK this March. Our food planners list all the seasonal produce being grown in the UK this month, ensuring they aren’t loaded with air miles or plastic packaging. Take a look for yourself:
This February we are serving you juicy fruits and spring greens! And can you believe brussels sprouts are still hanging on in there? Our food planners list all the seasonal produce being grown in the UK this month, ensuring they aren’t loaded with air miles or plastic packaging. Take a look for yourself:
This month we are serving luscious alliums, leafy greens and robust roughage! Our food planners list all the seasonal produce being grown in the UK this month, which isn’t loaded with air miles or plastic packaging. Here’s to a healthy and sustainable year ahead of us, for all of us.
You can’t beat a beetroot! But you can make delicious snacks out of it. Here’s a low carbon, low cost Beetroot Hummus recipe that’ll feed the hungriest of bellies for around £1 per person. And don’t forget to have a glance at this November food planner, which lists the seasonal fruit and veg you should be buying loose this month.
As the nights close in don’t you find yourself craving warmer, earthier, filling food? Well, we say lean into it. Yummy root veg, earthy greens bought sustainably from your local farmer. Check out our recipe for ‘Pumpkin, garlic & tomato soup’ – why not reduce waste and make a batch of soup with carving leftovers (and post-Halloween pumpkins)? It’ll feed each person for around £1,… Read More »Pumpkins and other fresh October veg
You should give a jot because changing your household’s food purchases is the single biggest positive impact you can have on the planet. Why? Because 23% of our carbon emissions comes from the food we eat. And you don’t have to make massive changes. Just swapping a few groceries for locally grown alternatives has an impact. And we’ve made it even simpler. Here is a… Read More »Which fresh and local groceries to buy in September
We love wonky veg! And we hope you’re enjoying this beautiful weather as much as our local farmers will be. Hotter weather brings with it veggie anomalies, and the National Farmers Union wants supermarkets to accept more ‘wonky’ produce from growers. So we say, let’s buy in-season produce direct from growers. Here is your next seasonal food planner for June, beautifully designed by Kasia, to help you do just that!… Read More »Wonky veg! Your in-season food planner for June
We’ve worked with Kasia, a local graphic designer, to create a beautifully illustrated planner of the in-season, fruit and veg for May (which doubles as your shopping list – because making a list reduces what you spend in store. Fact!). In-season is INWe want to make it easy for you to buy fresh each month. Eating more locally produced food cuts down on food miles,… Read More »NEW feature – in-season food planner for May