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 are [...]
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 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 [...]
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 writes in [...]
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 [...]
Eat Organic Veg instead of Contaminated Irish Pork
Organic Veg instead of Pork
Slowly but surely the demand for organic veg is on the increase. Every time there’s another animal food scare in the news another group of enlightened people decide that enough is enough and resolve to change the quality of their family’s food intake for good.
The latest one is Irish pork. News [...]
