Eat the Seasons

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Keeping you in the know as to what is coming into season each month is NEIL MORTIMER from Lovejoys Wholesale...

March 2020 and lockdown be more than enough to whet the elderflower berries, sloes and wild feels far away now in fact appetite for a month or two yet. horseradish. Look a bit harder in the like another lifetime! Available at the moment in local woods and you will find hazelnuts farm shops and village shops are and sweet chestnuts.

We supply mainly retail leisure and ruby chard, heritage beetroot and hospitality customers who, as we all carrots, cavolo nero and kale, broccoli Next month we will have an autumn know, closed for three months. As and kohl rabi. All of the lovely fresh competition. In the meantime

I write some are still closed now as their premises or kitchen areas are “The foragers among you should find plenty of too small for social distancing so they blackberries, crab apples, elderflower berries, have no idea when they might be sloes and wild horseradish.” able to open again. local herbs and watercress are at enjoy growing and harvesting if you

It is wonderful to see people eating their best also. This year, perhaps have a grow bag, a window box, an out again getting our trade going. more than any other year since the allotment or a garden. If you have

All our customers are doing their war, people are selling lovely locally been thinking about an allotment level best to ensure customer grown vegetables that they have my tip would be to search out the safety and confidence to return. an abundance of in their vegetable ones nearest to you and go and

It is particularly difficult for those patches and allotments. Keep an have a walk round them. If you feel who had to shield for so long to feel eye out for these in your local area. like it would be right for you then relaxed enough to sit in a public The flavours are always superior to approach them and put your name environment to have coffee or a produce that has been shipped in on a waiting list. Sometimes it can meal, but hopefully confidence is and it’s vital to shop locally if you can. take years to get to the top of the list now growing. As long as we all and you can always say no when the stick to the guidelines - masks, As we don’t seem to have many time comes. You might have a new handwashing, social distancing etc fruit growers left in our area we get hobby next year! - we can get this huge part of the up at 3.30 every morning to visit country’s economy growing again. the fruit market to pick out the best Neil soft fruit for our chefs with wye neil@lovejoyswholesale.com

Looking ahead though September valley strawberries, raspberries and is a time when we start to forget blueberries being our favourites. @lovejoysuk about summer vegetable crops like UK apples and pears are now • lovejoyswholesale.com runner beans, broad beans, peas available as well and there are many and salads. Let’s not focus too much community orchards with fruit on the winter veg yet as it is a very growing ready for picking soon. long winter! We have some fantastic The foragers among you should find produce grown locally which will plenty of blackberries, crab apples,