Virtual Organic Box Scheme Finds a Middle Ground ; Continuing Our Food in the Landscape Series, Martin Hesp has Been to Meet an Energetic Young Grower Who has Started a New Vegetable Box Scheme That Is Nearly Organic, but Not Quite

Western Morning News, The › October 07, 2009

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IT IS looking set to be one of the biggest conversations concerning food in the landscape that there has been for years. A flurry of salvos in the organic versus non-organic debate has been fired off in recent months. Now, some people are beginning to wonder if there might be a middle way.

There are a number of shorthand titles doing the rounds which try to capture the concept. "Virtual organic" is one, "free-range" is another - and one dynamic young Westcountry vegetable grower has come up with the novel term "nearly naked".

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Virtual Organic Box Scheme Finds a Middle Ground ; Continuing Our Food in the Landscape Series, Martin Hesp has Been to Meet an Energetic Young Grower Who has Started a New Vegetable Box Scheme That Is Nearly Organic, but Not Quite

That's the name Ben Brunning has given to his fascinating new box- scheme business in the South Hams. Ben, who is a kind of vegetable world's answer to Jamie Oliver, grows produce that is as close to being organic as you can get without actually being able to claim the full unsprayed, untarnished, Monty.

The 26-year-old's central ethos is that you can use a limited number of chemicals if there is a problem - if absolutely necessary - but you do not spray, douse, fumigate or whatever as ...

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