June vegetables...
Time to look out for the arrival of broad beans, local new potatoes and new season's wet garlic. If the sun continues to shine we'll also have sugar snap peas, rainbow chard, Swiss chard, cucumber and spring onions, radishes and fennel. Suddenly the veg area is green and lush and though roots are still there, they are not the only option. Salads leaves and herbs continue to delight the Riverford Farm Shop customers and astonish those that have long suffered the sad supermarket selections.
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Our vegetables are predominantly organic, and local, but we also stock good quality unsprayed crops, some conventional - like asparagus from Kitley - and some not so local, like bananas, because they simply can't be grown locally.
Riverford Organic Vegetables, at Wash Barn, Buckfastleigh, supply us with most of our ‘main crop’ vegetables and we buy many of our imported fruit and veg through them. Much of the production at Wash Barn is soft fruit, salads, herbs and fairly specialist vegetables.
The main crop vegetables are grown by South Devon Organic Producer Group, a coop of local farmers formed by Guy Watson about 10 years ago. Last year the Riverford Field Kitchen opened at Wash to rave reviews from, amongst others, Gordon Ramsey.
Other suppliers include Hafod Farm, Stoke in Teignhead; Heart of Devon Organics - based in Exeter, and on the unsprayed side from Harefield Growers in Staverton, Kitley Pick Your Own, and of course our potatoes from Philip Knight in Dartmouth. |
