Benefits to the environment
As well as the obvious environmental benefits of organic farming, Pitney Farm Shop also take the following steps to ensure the least possible impact on our environment.
Enviromental benifits include:
| We operate a 'Green discount' of 5% on all purchases where the customer has walked, cycled or ridden a horse to the farm shop. |
| We endeavour to keep the "food miles" of our stock as low as possible, eg stocking products as locally produced as possible. We have been able to source excellent beers, cheese, ice-cream, salad dressings, pickles, pies, pasties and chocolate, all from within our own county of Somerset! |
| In other areas of our business we try to support other local service providers, eg builders, printers, designers etc. |
| All cardboard, paper, glass, foil and plastic used in the shop are recycled. We also aim to keep waste packaging as low as possible. |
| Much of the vegetables and fruit sold in the shop are produced on the farm itself. When we have a gap in production we buy in organic produce from Somerset Organic Link, who find us suppliers in as local an area as possible. With the exception during the months of March to June for carrots and onions (when there is no British source for these staple vegetables) we do not sell food that is grown abroad if it can be grown in this country. All food sold in the shop is, therefore, seasonal. |
| From September to February we stock a range of delicious range of English apples, pears and plums grown at Charlton Orchards, near Taunton. We sell organic fruit that cannot be grown in Britain such as kiwis, lemons and clementines, these are imported from Spain and Italy. |
| We stock a wide range of Fairly Traded goods. Although these are produced in other countries, they are from small producers who are encouraged to work closely with the land to limit environmental impact, many of whom are organic producers. |
More information
For more information on the environmental benefits of organic farming, shopping locally and ways of reducing food miles, see the links below.
Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming
Seasonal vegetables at Glebe farm.
Organic fields at Glebe farm.