Buy Organic (British) Fruit & Vegetables

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If you can, buy organic seasonal fresh produce from local farm shops, veg boxes and farmers’ markets. But if you live in a ‘food desert’, then you can buy online from Abel & Cole. This company delivers a weekly organic veg box. But if you prefer not to commit, you can just choose what you want at the online shop. Or there’s a British organic veg box, if you prefer.

Wash produce before use. Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets. Bin allium scraps (onion, garlic, leek, shallots, chives), rhubarb and citrus fruits (the acid could harm compost bin creatures).

Why Choose Organic Fruit & Veg?

Most fruit and vegetables in supermarkets are covered in chemicals (apples are often sprayed with shellac from dead insects, to make them look waxy). Plus you often have to drive to big supermarkets, and pack fresh produce in plastic bags, if you don’t bring your own produce bags.

Even if it’s ‘local’, most supermarket produce is sent (by lorry) to central distribution houses, where it sits in chillers (which use oil), then it stays there until it’s shipped back again (by lorries) to supermarkets, where it’s sold as ‘local produce’.

Organic produce and non-organic produce in supermarkets is also sold alongside each other. So by law, the organic produce is wrapped in plastic, to avoid contamination. If you instead subscribe to an organic veg box, everything can be plastic-free.

This is a great idea if you love bananas. In supermarkets, you’ll find the organic bananas are wrapped in plastic, and the Fair Trade bananas are loose. By subscribing to this organic veg box, you can support local farmers, then also receive Fair Trade organic bananas, without plastic!

Organic produce also tastes better, and works out cheaper. Our small farmers are struggling, so let’s support them with better income and encouragement to grow organic seasonal produce that everyone wants.