A wrap on the knuckles for shoppers
We can’t blame the supermarkets for over-using plastic when we, as consumers, are largely content to tolerate it, writes Michael Kelly
Whenever I pull a parsnip out of the soil in my vegetable garden, I’m struck by just how hardy these remarkable root crops are. “Tough as old boots,” one could say.
Sown from seed in May, the parsnip root grows down in to the roughest of soils in search of nutrients and water to support the plant that eventually grows out of the ground (which of course we discard in favour of eating ...
