From the Garden: Eat your (locally grown) vegetables this Christmas

Michael Kelly Grower LAST WEEK, I tackled the concept of making your Christmas a little more sustainable, and focusing on the real versus fake Christmas tree debate.

The shame of it is that most of us go traditional with our veg for Christmas and we are presumably happy to pay a fair price for them, considering the importance of the meal for many people.The 49c-per-kilo veg offers are visible again this year, while many Irish veg growers go out of business year on year.

Of course, the €7.99 turkey is a headline grabbing figure and there can be huge variations in quality, size and how they are reared. These discounting issues follow a pretty well established trend by now – supermarkets tell the growers or farmers that the discounting is short-term and about building the market for their product, but they end up becoming permanent price points that result in an ever-decreasing downward spiral.

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