Food Inc. or How Your Organic Box Can Save The World
Food Inc. is a new film due out in the UK on February 12th and what it says about the spin used by US supermarkets to promote factory farming holds just as true here in the UK. Have a look at the trailer: The film will be shown around the country and The Soil Association [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Best Ethical Restaurant – Observer Food Awards
Riverford Field Kitchen ‘Best Ethical Restaurant’ Observer In their monthly food awards, the Observer newspaper gave the Riverford Field Kitchen the title “Best Ethical Restaurant. Last week Jane Baxter and Sam Miller, who run the Riverford Field Kitchen, were presented with this prestigious award, a fine achievement given some notable contenders. Guy Watson of Riverford [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
