Home grown

 
Where do our vegetables come from at this time of the year? ( no, these are not from our garden)
 
With Brexit around the corner I thought it might be opportune to look where some of our “daily five” come from.
 
This  photo is a selection of British grown vegetables and  the one in in extra  are from overseas.
 
The big surprise that the number was evenly balanced between home and foreign produce-11 are British and 15 foreign.
British:
Carrots, potatoes, radish, swede, red cabbage, curly Kale, onions, leek, broccoli, cucumber, mushroom.
 
Foreign:
-       Sweet potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, (Netherlands);
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- Sweet potatoes, beans, (Egypt;)
Mange tout- asparagus tips, (Peru)
Baby corn – (Kenya)
Fennel, garlic – (Italy)
Lettuce, pak choi, corvettes, aubergines, garlic (Spain)
Ginger- (Africa)
 
   
I am sure there are more vegetables both home grown and foreign available in the  supermarkets but this is what we have in Stirling.  


I would like to know the carbon footprint of flying ginger from Africa, and asparagus tips from Peru .......