As you start getting your Christmas plans together, we’d ask you to think about how you can have a deliciously local Christmas this year. One of the wonderful things about living in this part of the UK is that we have so many excellent local growers and producers right on our doorstep, producing excellent quality food. Continue reading
It’s incredible how easy it is to find ourselves buying from one of the large supermarket chains. Across the UK they have fought hard to make themselves as convenient and accessible as possible. That’s why I started Local Food Direct: because if we’re really going to convince people to buy from local growers, producers and suppliers, we have to make it as easy to buy from the farm 12 miles away as it is to buy from the Tesco Express at the end of the street. Continue reading
Summer may be over, but instead of mourning the loss of sunny days on the beach, why not join us for a celebration of the most delicious time of year? Without a doubt, the best thing about autumn is the … Continue reading
While supermarkets have become a regular part of life, it’s easy to free yourself from having to make the weekly trek to a mega-store. There is a rising tide of people across the UK turning to local producers for their food, instead of shopping at large, impersonal supermarkets. Now that you can order food from local producers online, it’s become incredibly easy to make the shift from large-scale to local.
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