a splurchase…is when you go to the shops to buy milk for your tea and buy biscuits too…..but when you do this ina supermarket you super splurchase…i.e spend a tenner…cos you see nice things..overconsumption and youre burning petrol…..
at tidders nest we bee trying to push our limits we failed to get the worms to compost….they became compost instead….
but we’re still trying..so we’re all converts of the shop local message…..so much so I thought i’d put up a little reaserch for you on the food/ethics/green thing that is our vegetables……….SO HERES WHYTO VEGGIE BOX!!!
1. Taste the difference
A box-scheme delivers food harvested when it’s ripe, so it comes to you full of flavour.
2. Seasonality Supermarkets
give us ‘permanent global summertime’. Box-schemes bring us in sync with nature’s seasons.
3. Save a British family
farm Box-scheme suppliers get at least 40p in every pound. Supermarket suppliers will see as little as 5p.
4. Unadulterated salad leaves
Those ‘convenient’ pre-packed supermarket salads are doused in chlorine then preserved in bags with lowered oxygen levels, depleting vital nutrients.
5. Real value for money
A ‘value added’ £1.99 vegetable and pasta bake would cost you
only 40 pence to make with boxscheme produce – and would be much healthier.
6. Reduce climate change
Air-freighted fruit and vegetables contribute 33 times more CO2 than UK-sourced produce. Box-scheme food is typically grown within 50 miles of your home.
7. Stop the beauty parade
Apples that don’t fi t a supermarket’s exact colour specifications are ‘graded out’. Box-schemes don’t reject food on looks.
8. Maintain food diversity
You’re unlikely to find black salsify or Lady Godiva squash in Tesco, but you could well do in a box-scheme.
9. Reduce waste
Over 40 per cent of household rubbish that goes to landfill is supermarket packaging. Unpackaged box-scheme food is naked naturally.
10. Reduce traffic congestion
Centralised distribution systems mean that up to 40 per cent of
HGVs on our road networks are delivering food to supermarkets.
Box-schemes gather and distribute food locally.
11. Stop migrant labour
exploitation Box-schemes would see an end to the illegal trafficking of migrant workers in the UK, driven by supermarkets’ determination to keep prices low.
12. Community, not cash
crop farming Box-schemes encourage an ethos of selfsufficiency in their suppliers. Villagers in Kenya are left hungry in order to supply our
supermarkets with mange tout.
13. Stem the ‘splurchases’
A staggering 60 per cent of a weekly supermarket shop is now bought on impulse. Box-schemes stop you frittering your money away.
14. Support local economies
£10 spent on a local organic box scheme can generate £25 for the local economy. Supermarket profi ts are channelled into the bank balances of distant shareholders.
15. Lighten your shopping
load Weekly fruit and veg delivered to your door means the rest of your shopping could be done from local independent shops on foot.
DEVON
Barnstaple
Lugg Smallholding 01598 710 558
Beaworthy
Earthstar, Little East Lake Farm 01409 221 417
Holsworthy Organics 01409 221 417
Bideford
Marshford Organic Produce 01271 322 855
Bovey Tracey
Yarner 01364 661 503
Buckfastleigh
Riverford Organic Vegetables 0845 600 2311
Crediton
Linscombe Farm 01363 84291
Exeter/ Exmouth
Shilingford Organics 01392 832 729
Exmouth
use the two healthfood shops (by the indoor market & in fore street)
and lakes on Exeter Road
ORGO DIRECT!
RodandBens 01392 833 833
www.rodandbens.com
Riverford Organic Vegetables 0845 600 2311
www.riverford.co.uk
Elder, D 01392 860 856
Great Cummins Farm 01647 61278
Ilfracombe
West Hill Farm 01271 815 477
Kingsbridge
Alan’s Apple 01548 852 308
Newton Abbot
Dartmoor Direct Co-Operative 01364 631 528
Woodland Organics 01803 813 760
Nature’s Round 07810 127 376
Pyworthy
Ceridwen Herbs 01409 254 450
Tavistock
Tamar Organics 01822 834 887
Tiverton
Ms Kate Palmer 0hope that helps!