We were doing our weekly shopping and going to the only surviving greengrocer in our town. We try to buy fruit and veg that is in season but with supermarkets trying to provide the same offering 12 months of the year it is sometimes easy to forget what is actually in season.
For me runner beans or the finer (French) green beans are a summer vegetable - my neighbour grows runner beans. So I would thought it would be easy to find UK-grown green beans to go with our beef stew. My wife and I realised about 6 months ago that we had been inadventently been buying vegetables from arid countries in Africa such as Morocco. This seemed really bad as the scarce water there ought to be used to help feed the local population and not to grow vegetables flown at great environmental cost to the UK.
We thought we had found what we were looking at - the label said "Evesham" which is an hour north of here. Unfortunately when I got home I read the entire label which also had the entry "country of origin Kenya" 
When will we learn?
2008-03-05 @ 17:17