\n\tElsewhere it’s a right old busy one with lots of stalls; Strawberries are back and Hotch Potch have tunnel grown organic green beans (delicious!); lettuces and salad bags at Coleshill; leafy Kale crisps return; Godsell’s cheeses fly the Single Gloucester flag in the absence of Jonathan Crump and we have Ale from Gloucester and Cirencester; the Lavender garden are in as well as Lansdown and Taena Potteries; we even have dog treats from Longney, fudge from Chalford and free range turkey eggs from France Lynch!\n<\/p>\n
\n\tAnyway, away from all the excitement I was looking around recently and it struck me how some things are just taken for granted so I thought I would make a special mention this week for the fabulous Leek; a vegetable so normal and unassuming that we probably don’t even give it credit for being available almost throughout the whole year. It is of course related to the onion and garlic species and we all know, I’m sure, that it has a subtle oniony taste. What I, and expect most of you, didn’t know was that this vegetable is considered one of the “World’s Healthiest Foods” because of the sheer range of vitamins and minerals it contains; all the way up the green bits as well! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s hard to focus on little food and market related stories every week when there is so much going on in the world. There are plenty of things going on but the earthquake in Nepal was particularly shocking this week…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n