Good Afternoon Folks,

Our newest growing site at Rouken Glen has provided us with an extensivee crop of claytonia this week, which features in the standard veg boxes. Claytonia is a winter salad leaf, well suited to growing in our climate. Find out more about it in our Veggipedia.

We’ve already got a few entries to the February Munch of the Month competition –  keep them coming! Share your Locavore veg box makes on social media using the tags #mmlocavore and #locavorevegbox.

In the veg boxes this week:

small: potatoes, carrots, onions, chestnut mushrooms, purple sprouting broccoli

standard: potatoes, carrots, onions, chestnut mushrooms, purple sprouting broccoli, beetroot, red sprout tops, claytonia or perpetual spinach

large: potatoes, carrots, onions, chestnut mushrooms, purple sprouting broccoli, beetroot, red sprout tops, Delicata squash, flower sprouts, celeriac

extra large: potatoes, carrots, onions, chestnut mushrooms, purple sprouting broccoli, beetroot, red sprout tops, Delicata squash, flower sprouts, celeriac, Red Russian kale, perpetual spinach

fruit #1: clementines

fruit #2: Orleans Reinette apples 

fruit #3: bananas

fruit #4: blood oranges

fruit #5: kumquats

additional small bag of foreign veg: tomatoes, flat beans, lemon

additional standard bag of foreign veg: tomatoes, lemon, red pepper, fennel

It’s pasta, pulse and grain box week! These boxes contain a selection of dried goods from our loose dry goods section of the shop, including beans, peas, lentils and rice, as well as prepackaged pasta and noodles. If you’d like to add one to your order, just drop us an email. There’s small (£10), standard (£15) and large (£20) to choose from.

Enjoy!

Katie