We're hosting our second supper club this September as part of Urban Food Fortnight - a celebration of the fabulous produce being grown, made, cooked and saved on our doorstep. Our first one last year was such a success that we've decided to make it an annual thing.
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20 May 2019
A great article came out this week in the Sustainable Food Trust: Why we need small farms
Small farms, once the beating heart of the British countryside, are disappearing. A third of UK farms under 50 hectares have been lost between 2005 and 2015. In stark contrast, the number of farms above 100...
30 Apr 2019
We've been wanting to source produce from Wild Country Organics for a while but until the Better Food Shed (a new not-for-profit wholesaler that connects small scale organic growers with London's small veg box schemes) was set up, he was only selling to the Growing Communities box scheme. Now the...
30 Apr 2019
Plastic remains a very tricky topic for us because we're caught between two very serious issues - food waste and plastic waste. When it comes to food, waste is more significant than packaging in terms of climate change (according to WRAP food waste in the UK is responsible for over 20 MtCO2e...
14 Mar 2019
We're very pleased to be sourcing produce from Hughes Organics - we've wanted to for a long time, and did manage it for a brief period a couple of years back, until a few factors converged (our small order sizes, his produce availability and cost of delivery) to make it no longer viable. Now thanks...
13 Feb 2019
Tuesday 5th March from 6pm
£3 per person
Book here
Come and join us at Cakes and Ladders in the Blue House Yard. The yard is one of our fab drop points and we wanted to share the love. We also want to create an opportunity for Crop Droppers to meet each other, share food and good chat. Non...
08 Jan 2019
It's that time of year for reflection and setting intentions for the year ahead. I find it's a great practice to review what was achieved, what didn't go to plan and get clear about things you want to do better in the coming year. And also don't forget to acknowledge what went right as well and...
22 Nov 2018
Well here we are. It's winter - we had out first frosts this morning! So it's about time I gave you a bit of a flavour of what fruit and veg to expect in the coming months. You can be forgiven for thinking winter is a lean time for local food. But we actually have quite a lot of variety to...
28 Mar 2018
You may have noticed a lack of apples in the fruit bags over the last few weeks. This is because there's currently a global apple shortage. The UK apples usually see us through all the way until May but not this year. Due to the frost last April a lot of fruit was lost – the UK apple harvest was...
22 Mar 2018
The spring equinox yesterday marked the beginning of a new season. We've put the snow behind us (hopefully) and are starting to enjoy more sunshine and warmer(ish) days. But no sooner than we don our shorts and start sparking up the BBQ, the grey clouds will likely roll in and hailstones pelt down...
