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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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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
