Veg Box News 7th October – 13th October Hello and welcome to this week’s veg box news! My tip of the week is an all-time best episode from my favourite gardening podcast, Roots and All. Focusing on the food web within the soil and how that impacts plant health, nutritional contents and potentially our own […]
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Veg Box News 30th September – 6th October me how unstable and exploitative supermarket pricing is. At Beanies, we stick to a standard markup. This margin is what we need in order to pay our overheads, and is a fair reflection of the cost (to us) of the produce. Retailers offering heavy discounts and sign-up
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Veg Box News 23rd – 29th September Thank you for the feedback last week on the new-format newsletter. If you ever want to check back through these for ideas and inspiration, they’re now being posted to the blog section of our website every Saturday at the same time. The business news this week is that
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Veg Box News 16th – 22nd September Hello and welcome to this week’s rather strange looking Veg Box News. We’re experimenting with a new format which will be jointly posted to the blog section of our website – please bear with us while we figure it out! For this reason it’s pretty bare bones this
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We’re changing the way we take payments for veg boxes, and some of you have asked for a little more information on the whys and wherefores of this shift. We always want to be transparent about these things, so below you’ll find a rather lengthy, but thorough, explainer for our thought process here. I hope
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Fighting food waste and food poverty is a crucial part of the Beanies ecosystem. It’s a radically different approach from that of supermarkets, who send huge volumes of edible food to landfill each year because they don’t (and won’t) have networks set up to manage waste. At Beanies, bins are for recycling and food is for eating!
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In September 2021, five brave Beans ran the Sheffield half marathon to raise money for essential equipment for the refugee council allotment in Roe Woods. On Wednesday, a permanent polytunnel was installed at the allotment, bought entirely with sponsorship money! The delay in construction was attributable to a surge in demand for greenhouses and polytunnels during the Covid-19 lockdowns, the
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Dear customer, As you know we have close relationships with our organic farmers. A visit to Matt’s field is a step into a world where we can co-exist without causing harm. Alongside the squash that will feed us in winter and the tomatoes for our salad are wild borders teeming with life. Over the years
By Anika Stephens What is plastic free July? Plastic free July is a global movement that encourages people to cut down on the amount of plastic they use. Whether it’s completely cutting out plastic for a month or just trying to cut down the amount of single use plastic you would normally buy. Anybody can be
