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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Organic Vegetables from The Farm
Here is a video that really shows where the organic veg for the boxes is coming from. The genuine love of good quality tasty vegetables together with the organic philosophy come across loud and clear. This is the actual farm in Devon where the Riverford organic vegetables as delivered in boxes throughout the [...]
Storing Organic Vegetables from Organic Vegetable Boxes
It’s always a difficult job to keep the organic vegetables out of weekly organic vegetable boxes fresh and usable for the whole week. Sometimes we forget about some of the organic vegetables that are sitting in the fridge for too long. To avoid this and make use of the organic vegetable boxes properly, [...]
Organic Vegetable Boxes from Ethical Superstore
If you look at the Organic Vegetable Boxes with delivery schemes available nationally, two or three large suppliers are mostly visible. Riverford, Abel & Cole and Farmaround for a start, all cover large parts of the country with excellent organic vegetable boxes delivered. If at all possible though, it’s clearly better for everybody and the [...]
16 reasons to buy organic boxes
I read on the VeganBits blog a post about contamination levels in fruits which is a bit shocking but really just gives 16 strong reasons for eating fruit and vegetables from organic boxes or other sources of untainted food.
16 Most Contaminated Fruits
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has compiled some information about pesticides and produce.
The [...]
