Reported today on BBC News, my local Tesco store is closing.
Sadly there's a total of 2,000 jobs that will be lost across the country as part of their £250m cost saving exercise. It seems a bit crazy as only twelve months before Morrisons opened a similar superstore next door in Doncaster.
It got me thinking a little about my supermarket shop. It's kind of non existent with all the fresh food available. What got pulled last summer is now frozen as soups or jarred up. The people I know have really got wise to the evil empire type supermarket - I remember last year one guy was elated by making his shopping run pay. He purchased some discounted Living Salad for £ 0.90 in to 12 fully grown lettuce plants.
I thought it was a bit far fetched, but it was amazing enterprising and inspiring really. On Sunday I'm dropping off a bag of Kale to someone as you just can't buy it in the stores at the moment.
So, what's happened. Have they lost their marketshare of offering the same old same old stuff to weekly punters or have the weekly punters just got wise and started growing their own; or has the company often quoted as the evil empire needed to pull in a bit. I do know Tesco as a company is signed-up to support the local Foodbank, in this way I guess they will be hugely missed.
I know for me a lot of this journey started with Hugh Chicken Run in 2008.
Bye bye local Tesco Superstore. Hello Kitchen Garden, you're looking brighter every day.
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Thursday 22 January 2015
Welcome to the blog
Welcome to the blog.
I've been thinking about writing this blog for over 12 months and made myself a commitment to keep a blog going forward to help other budding gardeners get to grips with their allotments so they don't lose the plot completely.
The area i'm using for horticulture is about 40 square meters. On the basis that the whole world is a garden it makes no difference whether you're using planters on window sills, or you have a garden the size of a postage stamp or you've got a whole field.
I'm a novice. I've been learning on a community garden from others. There's a huge ethos of sharing and learning. I'm sat on more fruit, veg, herbs and flowers than you can shake a stick at. It really has been a truly rewarding experience setting up the past year and I'm looking forward to this year with everything in place and the knowledge of last year going forward.
I will be looking at a few new projects to do with the garden and I'm hoping to clear up some myths about the grow your own scene.
I've been thinking about writing this blog for over 12 months and made myself a commitment to keep a blog going forward to help other budding gardeners get to grips with their allotments so they don't lose the plot completely.
The area i'm using for horticulture is about 40 square meters. On the basis that the whole world is a garden it makes no difference whether you're using planters on window sills, or you have a garden the size of a postage stamp or you've got a whole field.
I'm a novice. I've been learning on a community garden from others. There's a huge ethos of sharing and learning. I'm sat on more fruit, veg, herbs and flowers than you can shake a stick at. It really has been a truly rewarding experience setting up the past year and I'm looking forward to this year with everything in place and the knowledge of last year going forward.
I will be looking at a few new projects to do with the garden and I'm hoping to clear up some myths about the grow your own scene.
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