Author: Saoirse

Veg Box Newsletter 28th March: Same Old Brand New

It’s easy to be a bit tired of roots and brassicas by this time of year, anticipating the broad beans and asparagus, the radishes and salad leaves that the summer is marked by. The days are longer and brighter, and we’re starting to crave meals that match.

Veg Box Newsletter 21st March: Potatoes

We may imagine potatoes as being an old fashioned homely sort of vegetable, and get bored of them, but they have taken root everywhere they have travelled to, and found a welcoming home in all the pots and pans of the earth.

Veg Box Newsletter 14th March: Early Spring Blooms

Here’s a little splendid thing for you: the scant sunshine of this early-early-Springtime, when Spring is less a reality than it is a collective hope, has been transformed by the work of gentle hands into flowers. Glowing yellow, the daffodils promise brighter days to come

Veg Box Newsletter 28th February: Bread and Roses

Bread is the default foodstuff, the stand-in for life and sustenance in poetry, religious text, and political slogan; we don’t really know who we are without it, and the history of our bread is the history of who we are.