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Happy New Year from Organic Boxes

Happy New Year for 2010 from both of us at the Organic Boxes blog.
In 2009 we posted 16 blog posts on the Organic boxes blog, and munched our way through about 47 organic boxes ourselves, as well as three half cases of red wine, some bread and eggs.
In 2010 we hope to continue [...]


Sprouts Recipe for the Christmas Vegetable Boxes

For Christmas the organic vegetable boxes are used to provide all the vegetables necessary for the traditional Christmas dinner and also enough to keep you going over the holiday period. There might be one delivery less, or a change of date, so make sure you are aware of which day your Christmas special organic boxes [...]


How to Grow More Vegetables

How to Grow More Vegetables on Less Land
For more than 30 years John Jeavons has been preaching the benefits of small-scale, sustainable farming. Now, on a farm just outside Willits, Jeavons operates the nonprofit Ecology Action and teaches his methods to gardeners from as far away as Siberia, Africa and Latin America.
It takes about [...]


How Long do Organic Veg boxes Keep?

If you ever wondered how long your organic veg box is going to keep for, I just got a chance to find out when I accidentally ordered two boxes instead of one. I was trying to be clever and get the alternate weeks for different types of  veg box plan setup but I got it [...]


Organic boxes at Holiday times

This post divides quite neatly into 2 sections. Part 1 is all about making sure your delivery doesn’t arrive at your home address. Part 2 addresses getting organic food at your UK holiday destination.
Canceling Your Organic Box for the Holidays
Most organic box schemes have quite straight forward ways of canceling your box for short periods.
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Vegetable Boxes For Better Sex

Never mind the fact that this video was banned from something called a “Super Bowl”, (whatever kind of vegetable container that might be), what about the claims that vegetarians have better sex then?
‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad
And what about Vegan sex – is that even legal?
So many more questions are thrown [...]


Opening This Week’s Organic Box

Here’s Linda opening this week’s organic box as sson as it arrives and putting the lovely organic vegetables away in the fridge or vegetable rack.

The controversy has been raised: is it better to keep the bunched carrots with the green feathery top foliage intact or cut them off?
I think the greens [...]


My Organic Box Gets Too Hot

My Organic Box Sits in The Sun All Day
My organic box comes full of lovely, fresh organic vegetables but often I’m out when it arrives.
The front of my house gets the afternoon sun and this is bad news for my veggies! Even if I had a fairly shady spot on those sultry hot London days [...]


Swine Flu Pandemic – Regulate Factory Pig Farming

Readers of the Organic Boxes blog may well know about the horrific conditions industrial factory farms keep their animals in. It’s not just a problem for the animals and meat consumers though. There’s increasing suspicion that the current triple hybrid H1N1 virus swine flu pandemic may well have originated in large scale pig [...]


Organic Veg and Brown Bread Not for Everyone

An argument that organic veg and wholemeal stoneground bread is just a luxury for the rich.
Louise Fresco presents at a TED talk on the subject of “Feeding the Whole World” in praise of technology, science and mass produced industrial food.
“Never before has our food been made by so few of us. And [...]