I'm not totally convinced it all down to the consumers. I think super markets have for a long time been thinking they are helping by providing fruit and veg out of season. It's this blurring of the seasons that mean we don't get that knowledge of what is the correct season for a particular vegetable of fruit. This is not taught in schools and if you don't grow the fruit and veg yourself how are you going to know.Flo wrote:It's often the customers who are the problem with food produce. They want all sorts of fancy things all the year round and can't accept that there is an off season for everything if you want to buy local or even British.
It shows how much the last two or three generations have become disconnected from the local food sources and the production of food.
Some little while back we have a veg box delivered. Could not find a local supplied, but had to go to an on-line one a county away. Daft thing was that the veg all came from this counties field, then got shipped out (down to London we think) packaged up and shipped back.
We gave up with the mixed veg box rather quickly. The proportions of veg were never what we wanted. Lots and lots of cabbage. When we got mushrooms we barely had enough (we like mushrooms).