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New Collection Points
New collection point at Blue Star House in Brixton from 10 May.
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Fabulous recipes using your seasonal veg. 
Local Greens is a not for profit weekly veg bag scheme run by three enthusiastic people living in Herne Hill and East Dulwich. We provide the local area with great tasting, seasonal veg from small organic or spray-free farms, which are as near to SE London as we can find. In fact the closest farm is less than 11 miles away.
We have collection points in Herne Hill, East Dulwich, Dulwich and Camberwell and will be adding more.
- Great veg grown with minimum intervention from farms who we work in partnership with
- Minimum packaging and transportation so we can pay the farmers a good price for their produce
- Collected by you locally - often on the day it was picked
That simple and as sustainable as we can make it.
One of our customers says:
"I can wholeheartedly recommend the Local Greens organic veg scheme. It works for me in so many different ways.
Practically the veg bags are always there waiting for collection at my local pub. Every week ( I am on my 9th week now ) I feel a sense of excitement and anticipation wondering what will be in them. Yes, I realise I could look on the site but I don't because I enjoy the surprise.
The quality of the produce has been consistently high...everything is very fresh and most importantly it tastes so good...I was particularly impressed by the sweet carrots and the squashes...and overall these veg are far tastier than supermarket organic veg.
Getting a different bag of veg every week has challenged me to become more creative with my cooking. I think I had got into the awful supermarket mentality of seeing all the veg there in various packs every week but somehow NOT seeing it and just going on automatic to buy the same old things week in week out.
It is a joy to be genuinely eating seasonally...my first bags had tomatoes and peppers...now there are many more root veg. But last week there was an amazing salad bag with unusual strongly flavoured leaves which was great.
I am eating vegetables now that I have ignored for years. I am currying, steaming and roasting every week and eating more veg as a result of this scheme.
Incidentally I have not had any coughs colds or flu yet...and I wonder if my healthier diet is contributing to better health and well being. Difficult to prove but I feel that I have been very well since I joined the scheme and upped my vegetable intake."