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on Monday, 29 October 2012
Riverford was one of the pioneering organic vegetable box schemes, founded nearly 25 years ago by Guy Watson on the family farm in Devon. As well as vegetable boxes you can also get fruit, meats and a range of dairy products such as delicious cheeses delivered straight to your door.
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The newest addition to the Riverford range is their tangy green tomato chutney boxes. With everything already weighed out the difficult bit is done. All you have to do is follow the step by step guide and you will be set.

Riverford market these new boxes as a great introduction to preserving. Apart from helping my granddad make pickled onions each Christmas, and when I say help I do mean that in the loosest of terms, I had never really tried pickling or preserving before. So an evening on one of Anna Colquhoun's (who works closely with Riverford) courses would be the perfect thing to whet my preserving appetite.
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All it took was an evening after work one weekday, a Riverford Chutney box, and some guidance from Anna and I had managed to make three jars of preserves; piccalilli, green tomato chutney and sage and garlic jelly aka three homemade presents for someone for Christmas! It's as easy as Picalilli...

www.riverford.co.uk/
www.culinaryanthropologist.org/
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