I’m never quite sure what’s in season when – a consequence of not growing things myself, I’m sure. So that link the the BBC website was helpful.

While still shopping at Sainsbury’s, I’m trying not to buy food that’s been flown half way across the world. I (perhaps naively) think to myself that maybe, one day, if everyone did the same, Sainsbury’s might stop purchasing food from the other side of the world. OK, so we’d save on emissions, but would that be a good thing to do economically (for the producing countries)? Probably not. Difficult questions. Packaging, though, seems to get worse, not better. Why do four organic pears wrapped in plastic and placed on a polystyrene base?! Nothing organic about that!