Hello!

We hope that you’re enjoying the new season veg as much as we are!

Our market gardens, Left Field, Rouken Glen and The Croft are becoming very abundant. The first of the french beans, bunches of baby carrots and patty pan squash grown as locally as The Croft at Queens Park are available in our shop. The herbs are coming along nicely too, with chives incorporated into the menu at Project Cafe and Down to Earth. Tomorrow, our New Growers will be visiting one of last year’s New growers, Jackie & The Beanstalk, who, after a successful growing season at The Croft, now has her own land, and is supplying our shop and wholesale offering with her produce.

There’s just over a week left to enter the Munch of the Month competition – keep your entries coming by posting pictures of your veg box creations on social media with the tags #locavoremm and #locavorevegbox.

The Open Food Network is now open for orders to be delivered with next week’s veg box. New to the selection, we have Garcia’s blue corn tortilla chips, and Locavore grown garlic.

In the veg boxes:

small: potatoes, carrots, fennel, garlic, cavolo nero

standard: potatoes, carrots, courgette OR french beans, fennel, broad beans, garlic, sutherland kale, baby plum tomatoes

large: potatoes, carrots, courgette OR marrow OR kohl rabi, fennel, onions, broad beans, garlic, sutherland kale, baby plum tomatoes

extra large: potatoes, carrots, marrow, fennel, onions, beetroot, broad beans, garlic, sutherland kale, head of lettuce, french beans, baby plum tomatoes

fruit #1: blackcurrants

fruit #2: jostaberries

fruit #3: redcurrants,

fruit #4: blackcurrants (our first harvest of the year from Left Field!)

fruit #5: apricots

small foreign: aubergine, red pepper

standard foreign: cinnamon basil, aubergine, rainbow chard, red pepper

Enjoy!

The Locavore Team