15 Reasons to Order a Box Scheme Today...

Fruit and vegetables as nature intended them, delivered direct to your door.

1. Taste the difference A box-scheme delivers food harvested when it's ripe, so it comes to you full of flavour.

2. Seasonality Supermarkets give us 'permanent global summertime'. Box-schemes bring us in sync with nature's seasons.

3. Save a British family farm Box-sceme suppliers get at least 40p in every pound. Supermarket suppliers will see as little as 5p.

4. Unadulterated salad leaves Those 'convenient' pre-packed supermarket salads are doused in chlorine then preserved in bags with lowered oxygen levels, depleting vital nutrients.

5. Real value for money A 'value added' £1.99 vegetable and pasta bake would cost you only 40 pence to make with box-scheme produce - and would be much healthier.

6. Reduce climate change Air-freighted fruit and vegetables contribute 33 times more CO2 thank UK-sourced produce. Box-scheme food is typically grown within 50 miles of your home.

7. Stop the beauty parade Apples that don't fit a supermarket's exact colour specifications are 'graded out'. Box-schemes don't reject food on looks.

8. Maintain food diversity You're unlikely to find black salsify or Lady Godiva squash in Tesco, but you could well do in a box-scheme.

9. Reduce waste Over 40 per cent of household rubbish that goes to landfill is supermarket packaging. Unpackaged box-scheme food is naked naturally.

10. Reduce traffic congestion Centralised distribution systems mean that up to 40 per cent of HGVs on our road networks are delivering food to supermarkets. Box-schemes gather and distribute food locally.

11. Stop migrant labour exploitation Box-schemes would see an end to the illegal trafficking of migrant workers in the UK, driven by supermarkets' determination to keep prices low.

12. Community, not cash crop farming Box-schemes encourage an ethos of self-sufficiency in their suppliers. Villagers in Kenya are left hungry in order to supply our supermarkets with mange tout.

13. Stem the 'splurchases' A staggering 60 per cent of a weekly supermarket shop is now bought on impulse. Box-schemes stop you frittering your money away.

14. Support local economies £10 spent on a local organic box scheme can generate £25 for the local economy. Supermarket profits are channelled into the bank balances of distant shareholders.

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