Fruit & Veg Deserts & The Death Knell of the Local Greengrocer

Fruit & Veg Deserts & The Death Knell of the Local Greengrocer

Every week a British greengrocer is shutting up shop from Edinburgh to Coventry, Redcar to Builth Wells. In the process they’re creating ‘fruit and veg deserts’ across the country. Our communities are poorer for it, so are people’s diets. It’s no wonder nine out of ten children and three quarters of adults in the UK aren’t getting enough fresh produce. Slowly but surely greengrocers are disappearing, like biodiversity loss across our farmland an…