Liz Kameen
A spontaneous visit to Cambridge Organic Food Company
As a student I did my undergrad degree at Cambridge University (a little known fact!) and haven't been back since I left, so this week...
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Liz Kameen
Things we wouldn't want to live without*
*This is not an finite list, we will add a Part 2 if and when necessary! We were away from home for a couple of days recently and...
Liz Kameen
Plastic bags in winter for salad
As daylight disappears for the months of December and January, our plants also stop growing. This poses us with a problem when it comes...
Liz Kameen
A veg box is for life*, not just for Christmas
*this should really say 'a way of life' but then it didn't work! It's all about the heading haha. We've noticed a pattern, and wanted to...
Liz Kameen
All systems go with a loan from The Development Bank of Wales
We had been looking into getting a loan to help give us a chance to make some changes to the business, and when we got in touch with The...
Liz Kameen
Exciting times ahead - the plan for 2022
We took on the business - originally Eat Your Greens - at the end of 2018, and it's been a massive learning curve since then, albeit a...
Chris Kameen
Why buy fruit from the Vale Grocer?
At the Vale Grocer (used to be Eat Your Greens) we believe that food production and distribution should be a symbiotic relationship...
Liz Kameen
Sustainability...what does it mean for us and what are we doing about it?
We attended a webinar last week on sustainability. It was interesting, and we felt quite reassured we were quite ahead of the game in...
Liz Kameen
Everybody loves having a local greengrocer!
There's a real nostalgia around the local High Street greengrocer, and there's an article here which talks about the demise of / benefits...
Liz Kameen
Getting through the hungry gap
I just made some aubergine chutney with some fairly dodgy-looking old aubergines (more on this below) and was thinking about the veg we...
Liz Kameen
Pass me a pea shoot please!
We bought some pea shoots to go into the boxes in Jan/Feb and got some brilliant feedback from customers saying how much they enjoyed...
Liz Kameen
What Nigel Slater says about veg boxes
Many years ago, long before we had our own veg box business, Chris had one favourite cookbook that somehow got lost when we moved to...
Chris Kameen
Reducing our energy footprint
Reducing our electricity consumption became something of an obsession, but reducing electricity consumption is only a quarter of the...
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