I grew up eating my vegetables from a garden. As I grew up on a farm. I would much rather have fresh veggies or something someone canned. Compared to one you purchase from a store. less sodium.

So true, Barb! And because you only need to pick enough for right away, there is less worry about fresh food spoiling. A cut-and-come-again garden for salad greens is a great example of just picking enough for a few meals and then coming back for more later. The greens will just keep growing back over the season, and you don’t have to worry about harvesting them in large quantity unless they’re threatening to bolt.

Agree with your advice: “ask at your local market”. If you regularly shop at a particular grocery store, you’d be surprised at how responsive the manager is to certain products you request them to stock on their shelves. So next time you’re at the store looking for something you would like to try and you don’t see it, just ask! You can even mention it to the cashier at the check out. You never know they might get it. Even if they don’t, it was free to ask! Doesn’t cost you a penny! 🙂

Yes, the article is the best article providing latest information and most of the people do not know about how many fruits and vegetables have been disappeared from earth why? I do not know but there are some reasons behind it.

In an era when supermarket conformity rules, it is refreshing to discover that there are still wonderful, traditional varieties of fruit and veg out there waiting to be grown and tasted. What about Glaskin’s Perpetual rhubarb, quick to settle in and ready to be cut in its first year? Or Alderman peas, deliciously sweet even when they reach the size of marbles? Not to mention Ashmead’s Kernel apple, as devoured and praised by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: ‘exploding with champagne-sherbet juice infused with a lingering scent of orange blossom’.

But Forgotten Fruits is more than a guide to these unusual varieties. It’s also a fascinating work of natural and social history. Did you know, for example, that beetroot was instrumental in ending the slave trade? Or that observing gooseberries helped Charles Darwin to arrive at his theory of evolution? Or that there are over two thousand varieties of cooking and eating apples in Britain alone?

If you want to grow a bit of history in your garden, if you’d like to get a real taste of the huge variety of local produce that Britain has to offer, or even if you just want to find out a bit more about how rural life in the UK has evolved over the past centuries, Forgotten Fruits will prove irresistible — and enlightening — reading.

Great article! We try to do our share by growing our own vegetables and buying from local farmers.