organic tomatoes better for your heart
Reported in The Times* and The Telegraph* today are the results of a 10-year study comparing organic tomatoes with rival produce suggests they have almost double the amount of antioxidants called...
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bird’s eye food
More proof – if proof were needed – that organic farming is good for wildlife, Martin found this bird’s nest lurking down among the tomatoes in one of the polytunnels… The post bird’s eye food...
View Articlewhat’s what in the Riverford box – 5th July 2010
This week Kirsty talks about kohl rabi and tomatoes. kohl rabi (0 mins, 7 secs) To prepare your kohl rabi, trim off the top leaves and stems, trim the base and if it’s large, peel the outer leaves. One...
View Articlewhat’s what in the Riverford box – 12th July 2010
This week Jane talks about bunched carrots, radish and cucumber, cherry tomatoes and french beans. bunched carrots (0 mins, 12 secs) Rather than peel bunched carrots, you can just wash them. Try...
View Articlewhat’s what in the Riverford box – 19th July 2010
This week Guy talks about sugar snap peas, tomatoes, spinach, hispi cabbage, carrots and kohl rabi. Sugar snap peas To prepare, break the end and strip it down and it will take the string out. Take the...
View Articlewhat’s what in the box – 16th august 2010
In this week’s video, Jane Baxter talks about our Italian food, an idea for using tomatoes and mozzarella and cooks pasta with potatoes and pesto. If you have any questions about cooking, visit our...
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in search of the ultimate tomato
Longstanding customers normally tell us that flavour is the main reason they buy our boxes, so we have to deliver. Mostly we do (I am proud of about 80% of what we sell about 90% of the time), but...
View Articletomatoes: apologies, explanations & excuses
About five years ago we took the decision not to sell crops grown under heated glass. Burning fossil fuels to maintain a temperature of 20°C inside a single glazed greenhouse in the depths of winter is...
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Guy’s Newsletter: tomatoes, badgers & bees
Last week we picked our first tomatoes of the year; all being well, each of the 15,000 plants will produce 3kg of fruit between now and September. These tomatoes are actually later than we planned;...
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