Eat the Seasons

food & drink seasons eat the

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

November is the month when including milk from Shaftesbury reclaimed sash windows in between frosts and heavy rain usually and Gloucestershire, eggs from tables for screening! arrive. Potato growers have Trowbridge and even quinoa from finished harvesting and have their Corston Fields Farm just outside Bath. We also supply nurseries and schools, crop safely stored in their sheds for We really do our best to champion many continuing to cook a hot meal winter. Any other vegetable crops the local area as much as possible. each day. Closures and isolation for are safe left out in the elements with If you are interested to see other year groups have been happening, some, like parsnips, benefiting from products that we sell please look at but through it all smiling cooks and frosts as that turns the starch into our new website and you can see the lunch staff keep the ball rolling. It sugar, making them taste sweeter. entire catalogue, plus read about the gives the children a little normality history of the business. and is vitally needed for some who

It has been a good year for local perhaps do not get one at home. produce, mainly from Bromham. A DIFFICULT YEAR Our care homes also need a mention

The rain has come at the right times, It has been an extremely difficult - they have again kept three meals especially for the potato crops. We are year for so many. Most of our cafés, a day going, despite all of the many extremely lucky in this area to have restaurants and hotels are open difficulties, a big well done to all of the an abundance of fantastic vegetables again and doing a wonderful kitchen teams! being produced, including Cavolo job complying with changing

Nero, curly kale, bunched carrots, regulations, although even on This year has shown us that our rainbow chard, beetroot of all colours, days when they are full they have customers have been resourceful in cabbage plus previously mentioned far less tables than usual due to the face of huge adversity, Lovejoys potatoes. We also have lovely distancing. It has been very stressful will continue to provide them watercress grown in Warminster. and demoralising at times, but the with the ingredients and produce

Other great local produce we sell hospitality trade is there to serve and to provide meals, or food, to their to our chefs and shops are mussels, it will win through. Many have had to customers and community. As always rape seed oil, Lacock Dairy ice cream, come up with ideas to continue to email me your questions on growing

Hobbs House bread and trade, with takeaway options, meals or anything else.

Shipton Mill flour. We also to freeze at home and gazebos, sell local cheeses and sheds or tents so Neil dairy products people can neil@lovejoyswholesale.com eat outside. One even @lovejoysuk put • lovejoyswholesale.com