Seasonal food is fresher and so tends to be tastier and more nutritious. Eat Local includes a variety of quality classic, hand-made meal recipes. Each week we list the seasonal recipe ideas and useful tips picked from the web and our favourite books. See food seasons for a variety of recipes you can try at home.

Eat Local aim to promote an understanding of food seasons and consumption of local products.

There are a number of good reasons to eat more local, seasonal food:

  to reduce the energy (and associated CO2 emissions) needed to grow and transport the food we eat
  to avoid paying a premium for food that is scarcer or has travelled a long way
  to support the local economy
  to reconnect with nature's cycles and the passing of time