Pineapples - chunk them yourselves !

 The most amazing thing for me about the effect of planes being grounded is the growing list of food items that people actually buy - except I am not sure that they can just now  .....

Imported fresh pineapple chunks being one of them - pineapple 'chunked' in another country and air freighted to us here strikes me as the end of the line in sustainable food production!

Thankfully, although you will on occasion see a pineapple in The Green Valley Grocer, it will still have all of its nobbles and will not have been sent by air.

Here at the shop we are always trying to learn more about how the food we sell is produced and transported, and when we find out something interesting (or worrying), that's when we change our purchasing plans !  We also pass on our thoughts to our suppliers - who we hope, will take what we say on board.

Our customers are vital in this process - letting us know what they have read, seen, discussed about food and the ethics of production and transportation - long may they continue to do so !

And of course, our local produce is beginning to come in now - minimal food miles and produced without pesticides by lovely people !  Come and try kale, cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli ALL LOCALLY GROWN !