It can hardly have escaped anyone’s notice that eating locally is all the rage these days. Yes indeed, reducing your food miles and growing your own are where it’s at. People who previously didn’t know one end of a spade from the other are suddenly all about raised beds and double digging (for which purpose one sincerely hopes that they are, by now, using the right end of the spade).

Bully for them I say and, yes, bully for me, out there with my wellies on, digging up spuds with the best of them.

But.

But, but, but.

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