British Asparagus Season is here Typically in season from St George’s Day (23 April), British asparagus (hailed as the best) comes out to play. It’s delicate, savoury, and is the young shoot of a cultivated lily plant. Asparagus is high in vitamins A C as...
25 million pancakes are wasted every pancake day Every Pancake Day in the UK, 25 million pancakes are wasted! It’s flippin’ outrageous. Archie Lasseter, Utilita Energy’s sustainability lead, said: “It’s ironic that a day that was traditionally created to...
Celebrating the finest ingredients: Bruce White Limited Almost 50% of the food City Harvest distributes to its network of community partners is fresh produce. Surplus fresh produce donations come from a variety of suppliers: from farms, growers and packhouses to...
Raiding the City Harvest fridge for this quick “ramen” recipe This fridge raid “ramen” recipe created by our Senior Volunteer Coordinator, Georgie, takes no more than 30 minutes to whip up. The key to any good fridge-raid recipe is in the name...
Eating Sustainably means Eating Seasonally Did you know that celeriac is a STEM and not a root, although it is in fact still classed as a root vegetable? The celeriac is in season in the UK from October to February, making it very much a winter vegetable. This...
Ways to use up leftover fruit and vegetables We’ve all been there—those fruit and veg sitting in the fruit bowl, getting older by the day. But don’t throw them away! Leftover fruit and vegetables are great ingredients for healing juices and they’re a great way to...