How do you know which food is in season?

Ladyhawk

There already is a shortage... (my job is as a fruit and veg buyer)

Try looking on www.eatseasonably.co.uk

thriftlady_2

I thought bananas and citrus came by boat?

I've always stuck to homegrown or shipped F&V and avoided airfreighted produce.

Ladyhawk

Yes - generally they do... but things like sugar snap peas, baby corn and beans etc are flown in

Pink.

Hi lola,

I find these websites useful for seeing what food is in season:

www.eattheseasons.co.uk

www.iminseason.com

BBC what's in season

This thread has lots of information about finding out what's in season:

How do you know which food is in season?

I'll add your thread to it later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

lola321

Thanks for the replies. I will check out the suggested websites.

Lola

ERICS_MUM

Thanks for this useful thread and links. Funnily enough I went to my first ever farmers market today and I was impressed by the lovely food offered by small independent and local producers.

Linda :T

parsonswife8

We planted purple sprouting broccoli months and months ago and lo and behold, it started sprouting about 3 weeks ago.
We have already harvested enough for about 6 meals for 2, as an accompaniment to our meals.
Would have cost us about 6 X £1.70 at least by now, as it seems to be jolly expensive in the shops.
This was from 3 big plants and there is still more coming.

meanmarie

Sprouting broccoli takes a long time to mature, we are just now having some delicious sprouts and hope that they will continue for a while to come....enjoy.

Marie

parsonswife8

It is lovely steamed and with a bit of melted butter on.:j

Caterina

How exciting, in a few days the British asparagus season starts - I take advantage of it as it is so very short and we all love asparagus, I make risottos, omelettes, steam them, once I even made homemade hollandaise sauce to go with them!

I just cannot bring myself to buy asparagus air-freighted from Peru!

I agree with Lola321 about the possible impending shortage of imported foods. DH and I discussed this just earlier on, and wondered whether this occurrence (the volcanic ash thing) will be a wake-up call for people to stop relying on expensive and unnecessary imports, and try to become more self-reliant (we hope!).