Farm Shops and The Food Finders Hub

[Zigs]

As many of you know, U.K. farmers have been under a lot of pressure recently. It's painfully obvious that certain people with certain agendas want British farms closed down, built over, covered in solar panels or "re wilded". The latest attempted nail in the coffin is the food additive being fed to cows to stop them farting. This may have backfired on the climate grifters in a spectacular way. No one wants this.

Within the space of a few days the Food Finders Hub has been created as a place to find all you need to get food and food related goods direct from the farm to the consumers. Cutting out the supermarkets that have, for too long, bullied farmers into producing food for their own benefit.

The Food Finders Hub

Welcome to the Food Finders Hub, Connecting Communities with Local Farms and Fresh Produce.

foodfindershub.co.uk

Tetters and I had been using our local farm shops for some years now, buying our veg there more and more rather than from the supermarkets. There's still some veg there that's imported but it's quite clearly labeled and there's usually a reason for it other than price. Last time we talked to the people in the farm shop they were saying it's because they're having trouble sourcing British food and not because they were buying cheaper imports.

Anyway, we'll put the odd picture of our local farm shops as and when we visit, feel free to add anything about yours too

Took a pic of the tomatoes from La Palma lasr week, you probably saw the island when the volcano erupted there a few years ago.

 

[Anniekay]

I don't have any farm stores near me. The farms around here grow cotton, tobacco, soybean, peanuts, pecans and there's someone growing olives on 100 acres in the next town but he turns them all into oil.

Our supermarkets have food from everywhere coming in so we can get blueberries in winter and all else that's out of season all year. I guess we don't care so much where it comes from so long as it's been inspected. It always says on the container what country it's from anyway.

In season foods like fruit and veg mostly come from florida or other parts of the states.

 

[Zigs]

With all that's going on at the moment there may well come a time, quite soon, when there isn't food coming from all over the world in the supermarkets. It's been happening here gradually over the past few years and now it's accelerating.

The tinned fish isle used to be just that, an isle. Now it's down to one shelf

Our farmers will be taking action to protest about the insane tax that will wipe out most small farms within a generation so expect disruptions to supermarket food supplies.

What the main stream media doesn't report is that the region of Spain where most of the UK imported food comes from has been all but wiped out in the recent floods which were largely caused by the EU insisting on them removing dams

When the normal rains came there was nothing to hold the water back.

 

[Anniekay]

Most of our food that's imported comes from Mexico and other regions of S. America. With the Cartels in charge, the governments south of us won't be taxing any growers down there real soon !!

 

[Sheal]

There's only one that I can find here, the food is organic and very expensive. The problem is a sixty mile round trip and I couldn't justify the cost.

 

[Zigs]

That's more of a day out than a shopping trip Sheal

This is the delivery van, they don't use it very much though

 

[Tetters]

There's only one that I can find here, the food is organic and very expensive. The problem is a sixty mile round trip and I couldn't justify the cost.

Is Robertsons anywhere near you? ''The Larder & Highland cows''

 

[Tetters]

I just gave our local supermarket an order - to be delivered. That doesn't happen very often. I'll stock up on tea bags, and loo rolls, washing liquid and bleach, rubbish bags and some olive oil ( only particular varieties I trust), canned fruit, fish and beans - as well as genuine free range eggs.
It has to be the farm shop dairy produce - milk, butter, live yoghurt and cream etc., and real local honey.
There is so much poison added to our food now, we have returned to basic produce, and cook everything from scratch.

 

[Sheal]

Is Robertsons anywhere near you? ''The Larder & Highland cows''

That's back where I used to live @Tetters, another long journey. I did visit it a couple of times but wasn't impressed with their veg. The only things worth visiting there were these.