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 [...]


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 [...]


Vegetable Boxes For Better Sex

Never mind the fact that this video was banned from something called a “Super Bowl”, (whatever kind of vegetable container that might be), what about the claims that vegetarians have better sex then?
‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad
And what about Vegan sex – is that even legal?
So many more questions are thrown [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 in season: Autumn

It’s reasonable to assume that when you buy organic boxes they will be full of seasonal produce but do you really know what’s in season this month? We are so used to supermarkets with their shelves full of air freighted produce from all over the world. Do you still know roughly what to expect [...]