So much of our fruit and veg comes from abroad these days and can be weeks old before it even arrives on a supermarket shelf. Back in my childhood days we kept sacks of spuds in the shed and the likes of appes, carrots, onions and turnips too but there were no supermarkets and most of it was grown locally and arrived with the soil, leaves and roots still on and wasn`t pumped full of preservatives or irrradiated like it is now. True we didn`t have as much choice back then and because things were locally sourced they were truly seasonal and often only available for a short time but when our local farmer came around with his van full of spuds, eggs, milk , cream and other fruit and veg you knew exactly where it had come from and that it was fresh.
