Hello Folks,
What a busy week we’ve had! We’ve got lots of improvements going on behind the scenes here at Veg Box HQ, and are excited for our veg boxes and our service to be better than ever soon. Meanwhile, we’ve been putting together lovely boxes for you for this week to brighten the grey January days. In the veg boxes, we’ve got much-missed kale (it’s been a while!), mushrooms, squash, and parsnips. Lately, I’ve been making a lot of macaroni cheese with sauteed kale stirred through. My mushrooms will top this coconut yogurt flatbread– I’ve been really enjoying Meera Sodha’s recipes lately. I’m a little tired of roasted parsnips, so mine will go with the carrots, onions, and swede into a stew with lots of herbs and some fluffy, light dumplings on top.
Marmalade!
One of the many joys of eating seasonally is those special things that come round for a short time each year. They never stop feeling like a treat. And I’m particularly excited that it’s finally seville orange season! It’s time to make marmalade!
We’re offering organic bitter seville oranges from a farm called Ave Maria. One of our suppliers visited them last year, and made a short video of the farm. It looks like the most beautiful place. Nearly as beautiful as the marmalade we’ll make with their oranges.
If you’d like to order the oranges, email us with the kilo amount by 9am on Monday 27th January. The oranges are priced at £2.80 per kilogram. The oranges will then go out with orders that week. If you’re a fortnightly or a monthly customer and you’re not due for an order that week but still want bitter oranges, let us know and we can work something out.
I’ll be sharing my grandma’s recipe for marmalade this week, but if you have a recipe you love I want to hear it too- join in on our marmalade thread in the Facebook group.
Good Food Fund
Thank you to all our customers who continue to donate to the Good Food Fund. In December we sent out £1066.46 worth of produce to our partners. They work with people who are living in food poverty from a variety of backgrounds. Currently your donations support: Al Farooq Education and Community Centre, Auldhouse Community Food Bank, Central and West Integration Network, Gal Gael, Govan Community Project, Govanhill Community Canteen, The Marie Trust, Queen’s Park Govanhill Parish Church Foodbank, The Space (Govanhill). Unlike supermarkets, we don’t make a profit on your donations.
Events
Monday,
January 27th 7.30 – 9.30 pm
Feeding
Scotland – Working towards food sovereignty
Film
screening and panel discussion
Two
films by Zev Robinson
Chefs
Challenge –
a
short documentary about this recent initiative by the Glasgow
Community Food Network that challenged Glasgow restaurants to compete
using Glasgow grown ingredients.
Glasgow
Diet –
a
35 min interview based film that explores factors that contributed to
the development of the Scottish diet and showcases initiatives that
are working towards change.
Panel
discussion –
Can
we feed Scotland?
Abi
Mordin – Glasgow Community Food Network & Propagate
Reuben
Chesters – Locavore
Scott
Erwin – GreenCity Wholefoods
Zev
Robinson – The Art and Politics of Eating
The
discussion will explore the role of local food producers and
distributors in developing visions for food sovereignty in Scotland.
How much of its own food could Scotland produce and what would this
mean for our diet? How does working towards food sovereignty sit with
notions of national independence? What is our vision for progressive
trade relations?
Get
your tickets here.
Monthly Specials
This
week, our
treat boxes fly out to those of you subscribed to em, full of lovely
things like fennel chocolate and chickpea flips.
Next
week, it’s
the 5th
week of the month (counting by Fridays) so no monthly specials are
being sent out. The following week, we’ve got our meat boxes, so
let us know if you’d like a monthly delivery of organic meat from
local farms.
You can learn more about our monthly
special
boxes here.
Check out storage guidance here for helpful tips and tricks on how to prolong the life of your fresh produce. If you’re wondering where your veg comes from, have a look at these maps. You can also join your fellow subscribers over in the Facebook group and check out our Veggiepedia!
To contact us, ring 0141 378 1672 or email us at subscribers@glasgowlocavore.org
In the veg boxes this week:
Subject to last minute changes
| Small veg box | Farm | Organic Certifier |
| Carolus Potatoes | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Onions | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Carrots | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Parsnips | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Kale | Home Farm, Ipswich | Soil Association |
| White Mushrooms | Orchard Organics, Armagh | Soil Association |
| Standard veg box | Farm | Organic Certifier |
| Carolus Potatoes | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Onions | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Carrots | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Parsnips | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Swede | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Beetroot | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Kale | Home Farm, Ipswich | Soil Association |
| White Mushrooms | Orchard Organics, Armagh | Soil Association |
| Claytonia | Locavore Left Field | Soil Association |
| Large veg box | Farm | Organic Certifier |
| Carolus Potatoes | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Onions | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Carrots | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Parsnips | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Swede | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Beetroot | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Kale | Home Farm, Ipswich | Soil Association |
| White Mushrooms | Orchard Organics, Armagh | Soil Association |
| Onion Squash | Bedlam Farms, Cambridgeshire | Soil Association |
| Extra Large veg box | Farm | Organic Certifier |
| Carolus Potatoes | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Onions | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Carrots | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Parsnips | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Tundra Cabbage | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Swede | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Beetroot | Chapel Farm | Soil Association |
| Kale | Home Farm, Ipswich | Soil Association |
| White Mushrooms | Orchard Organics, Armagh | Soil Association |
| Onion Squash | Bedlam Farms, Cambridgeshire | Soil Association |
| Small fruit bag | Farm / Origin | Organic Certifier |
| Apples (Adam’s Pearmain) | Oakwood, East Sussex | Soil Assocation |
| Blood oranges | Italy | Demeter |
| Bergamot | Italy | CCPB |
| Medium fruit bag | Farm / Origin | Organic Certifier |
| Apples (Adam’s Pearmain) | Oakwood, East Sussex | Soil Assocation |
| Blood oranges | Italy | Demeter |
| Bergamot | Italy | CCPB |
| Large fruit bag | Farm / Origin | Organic Certifier |
| Apples (Adam’s Pearmain) | Oakwood, East Sussex | Soil Assocation |
| Blood oranges | Italy | Demeter |
| Grapefruit | Spain | Caae |
| Strawberries | Spain | Caae |
| Extra large fruit bag | Farm / Origin | Organic Certifier |
| Apples (Adam’s Pearmain) | Oakwood, East Sussex | Soil Assocation |
| Blood oranges | Italy | Demeter |
| Grapefruit | Spain | Caae |
| Strawberries | Spain | Caae |
| Bergamot | Italy | CCPB |
| Conference Pears | Mole End, East Sussex | Soil Association |
| Small supplementary veg | Origin | Organic Certifier |
| Red onions | Netherlands | Eko |
| Courgettes | Spain | Caae |
| Rougette lettuce | France | Ecocert |
| Standard supplementary veg | Origin | Organic Certifier |
| Red onions | Netherlands | Eko |
| Courgettes | Spain | Caae |
| Pak choi | France | Ecocert |
| Rougette lettuce | France | Ecocert |
Enjoy!
The Locavore Team