Rhubarb Rhubarb I’m very excited about the fruit bags this week! The delicious citrus from the winter is still going, with those delicious, flavourful grapefruits. I’ll be juicing my grapefruits and oranges and turning them into a simple granita to eat while watching the blue tits outside my kitchen window. And then we have the…

Sunshine through the window, buds on the tree, birdsong falling like blossom from a branch: there is spring just outside.

The season in the UK is changing. Soon, our little farm on the hill will be covered in green leaves which our hardworking farmers will harvest for us to eat in salads

Hello Folks, Covid-19 update Our big Locavore-wide update is avaliable to read here, and the biggest vegboxes update is here, but here are the headlines for this week. As always, the situation is evolving quickly, so we’d appreciate it if you could read the following carefully. Adjusting delivery days From this week, we’ll be moving…

Hello Folks, Covid-19 update We shared our big update with you last week, so read it here if you missed it. There’s lots of useful info in there. The latest Locavore-wide Covid-19 update is here. We do have a few updates for this week, though, and we ask that you read them carefully. Please shop…

Covid-19 Update Hi folks, let’s start with the serious stuff.  We know that our veg boxes are a really important thing right now for a lot of you. It matters to us that we can help you get hold of local organic produce and staples. Good food can do an awful lot in difficult times,…

Hello Folks, It’s a bit of an anxious time, huh? When I get anxious, I love to cook. I think it’s some kind of protective instinct: if my cupboards and my fridge are full, if I have food for myself & my community, then surely everything will be OK. It’s a way to care for…

It’s been a difficult growing season, with the storms, and the cold, and the hail, and as we enter the hungry gap, we find that there is less and less easily available

Hello Folks, The green kale we get from chapel farm, and the green kale we’ll soon have again from our very own Locavore farm, isn’t much like the kale you get in the supermarket. It isn’t shredded, but whole leaves. They curl beautifully, looking very much like an ariel photo of some wild green hills…

Hello Folks, Beetroot is a precious thing. It’s dug up from the earth, all rough and dusty. Cut it open and it gleams like garnet. This week, we have golden beetroot in the boxes. Well, the clue is in the name: it shines inside. When you eat beetroot, you can taste the soil it’s grown…