Local vegetable delivery business expands

Penny from Penny's Recipes is expanding her local, organic, vegetable order and delivery business. Penny provides a service for people at workplaces and community centres so they can order local organic vegetables online and have them delivered to their place of work.

The vegetables are grown by Shillingford Organics, which is located just outside Exeter. The scheme is designed to make local produce available to people who struggle to get to the shops or Farmers' Market. Local bread from Emma's bread will soon be available too. The scheme which already delivers to the Hub on the Green, Exeter University, County Hall and Peninsula Medical Centre is also now providing the service to the Environment Agency and St Sidwells Community Centre.

Penny Says "People just love the vegetables. They are so fresh as they are picked the morning they are delivered. They remind people of how vegetables used to taste in their childhoods"

And it's so easy. All people need to do is to go to www.pennysrecipes.com/shop and choose the vegetables they would like that week from the selection available. This is not a box scheme - you choose exactly what you would like and there is no commitment required to order every week.

The selection includes organic eggs too. Penny started the scheme in February after chatting to Martyn Bragg of Shillingford Organics about the lack of outlets for local food in the city. The Real Food Shop and Love Local Food van are both doing a brilliant job, but more outlets were still needed. And six months on, people are loving the service. If you would like vegetables delivered to your community centre or workplace - just get in touch with Penny at penny@pennysrecipes.com