From the fields, in writing

Fifteen kilos of fruit travelling hundreds of kilometres sounds risky. What protects it isn’t the packaging: it’s that the journey lasts as little as possible.

The gap between what a grower is paid and what you pay is enormous, and it isn’t because somebody is robbing anyone: there are simply many links. Here they are.

It isn’t rural romanticism: taking steps out between the tree and the table changes measurable things. Here they are, including the ones that don’t play in our favour.