Nursery World - A Unique Child: Health & nutrition

There are real benefits to using locally grown food all year round,
as Snapdragons' Mary Llewellin explains.

While supermarkets have offered us more choice of exotic imported food, we have lost the link between the food we eat and its natural growing season. Environmentally and nutritionally we are losing out when we choose food from far-flung corners of the world.

Not only are food miles playing a part in the damage we do to our climate, but there is evidence that food picked before it is ripe and then transported and stored for long periods loses many of its nutrients, especially vitamin C. That is why at Snapdragons we prefer to buy the bulk of our food from local growers and this inevitably means a return to seasonal eating.

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