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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 [...]
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.
Riverford
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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 [...]
Remember to Cancel your Organic Boxes!
This is just a reminder to those of you who are already getting organic boxes delivered weekly to organise for your holidays in advance. There are so many other things to think about it would be easy to forget and end up with a sad box of organic vegetables sitting on your front doorstep for [...]
Organic Boxes are Cheaper
Riverford Organics, which delivers 40,000 boxes around England every week, compares its produce monthly against its equivalents in Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. Riverford claim that their organic boxes turn out to be at least 20 per cent cheaper. So I did a spot check and that week the Riverford’s large organic eggs were costing £2.05 [...]
Christmas Organic Boxes – not just for vegetables!
If you have just started to get organic boxes delivered you might be wondering what happens about deliveries over Christmas. Schemes vary with how they approach the holiday season. Most make a final Xmas organic delivery sometime around the 21st to 24th of December and then re-start normal deliveries after New Year. Some schemes do [...]
Organic Boxes in Season – Early Winter
Organic Boxes in the Early Winter
What’s in season over the early winter months ?
Here’s what you can expect to find in your organic boxes in the early winter.
A list of what could be the ingredients for the world’s greatest stew!
Organic Vegetables from the boxes
Romanesco and white cauliflower,
red, green and savoy cabbage,
purple, white and orange carrots,
leeks,
Ramiro [...]
Organic boxes – delicious things to do with sweet-corn
Organic Boxes – What to do with those less obvious veggies?
You might be put off the idea of organic boxes because you are not sure what exactly to do with some of the lovely vegetables, beyond the obvious. Let’s be honest, there’s a limit to how often any family wants to eat corn on the [...]
Organic Boxes and Market Stalls
Look at these wonderful organic boxes of very special vegetables on a stall at Borough Market in South London. They are not only organic but also “Biodynamic” which raises the game up one notch again for market gardening. The root vegetables are particularly dense, hard and heavy, with a more intense earthy flavour. [...]
