Apology: We ordered blood oranges but those that turned up turned out not to be blood oranges! Sorry to those who bought them and discovered this too. We are taking this up with our supplier Better Food Shed.
Thursday 23rd December: 2-4pm
Friday 24th December: 4-7pm
Saturday 25th December: closed
Thursday 30th December: 2-6pm
Friday 31st December: 4-6pm
Saturday 1st January: closed
We expect to be back to normal opening hours from 5th January onwards.
We wish you a happy solar new year, a jolly Yuletide, a merry Christmas, a super Saturnalia, and all the best for 2022!
Our calculators have little solar panels, which is great when there’s light, but inside our windowless shop there isn’t much light, especially in the darker months! So they depend on a little fallback button cell (battery). It’s a little bit tricky to get inside and replace them, but worth doing and the new cells are cheap.
So we’ll have two fully charged calculators for you to use this Thursday!
All being well we will have fridge products such as tofu, miso and spreads back in stock from next Thursday 4th November.
This is due to a customer offering to take on the job of ordering from Suma Wholefoods, after a gap of some weeks where we had no volunteer for this task.
Fareshares is entirely dependent on people volunteering their time, and we are still short of volunteers, so please do give us a hand if you can! Drop your details into the box in the shop next time you’re in.
It’s been great to welcome people back into Fareshares since we reopened fully for self-service back in August.
Our footfall and takings have slowly been recovering, but we’ve noticed that they still aren’t back to the sort of levels we had before the pandemic.
There will be lots of reasons why that might be. Quite a bit of it might be that some people weren’t much into being served at the door, which we did for several months, and haven’t realised that we’re open again.
And others might simply have migrated elsewhere for their food buying. There are quite a few more so-called “zero waste” (nobody is!) outlets these days, for instance.
But we’ll be surprised if people can find anywhere that offers whole organic food cheaper than Fareshares (due to our low overheads and fully volunteer staffing).
And we’d like as many people as possible to benefit from this great resource.
So please, tell your friends about Fareshares, and maybe bring them along yourself to show them how it works. (And where we are — we know, it can be a bit hard to find us!)
Hi folks, after a week’s break there will be fresh veg again this week. Come in and enjoy (and buy):
chard
courgettes
cauliflower
lettuce
brown mushrooms
cherry tomatoes
carrots
cucumbers
garlic
You’re generally onto a winner health-wise if you eat the kind of wholefood plant-based diet that Fareshares helps to support, but you can still end up deficient in some vital nutrients.
In particular you risk serious health consequences if you don’t take special steps to make sure you get enough vitamin B12 which, with very few exceptions, is not present in plant foods. Likewise it is difficult to get enough iodine from a strict plant-based diet. And everyone, irrespective of diet, should be supplementing with vitamin D between October and March in these latitudes.
As of this week Fareshares is stocking the Vegan Society’s VEG1, the nutritional supplement developed by The Vegan Society. It provides an affordable, reliable source of vitamins B12, B2, B6 and D3, folic acid, iodine and selenium, covering all your bases.
We have pots of 90 tablets (orange or blackcurrant flavours) — a three-month supply — on sale for £6.60 each, working out at around 7p a day.
Hi folks
New fresh produce in this week:
lettuce (red oakleaf)
courgettes
strawberries
spinach
potatoes (red)
mushrooms (brown)
asparagus
white cabbage
All UK grown – come and enjoy!
We’ve finally restocked on some herbs and spices, thanks to the enthusiasm and effort of volunteers Laura and Lucy. We have cumin seeds, black peppercorns, fennel seeds, cinnamon quills, thyme, chamomile flower, mixed herbs.
Sourced in bulk from the Organic Herb Trading Company in Somerset and painstakingly packed into 25g and 50g paper bags for minimal packaging waste and maximum value.
Come and get ’em!
Hi everyone
This week we will have the following fresh vegetables:
lettuce (green batavia), kale (cavolo nero), spinach, white cabbage, asparagus, brown mushrooms, vine tomatoes
Also a heads-up:
From this week, we are trialling having fresh produce every week. So please come and enjoy the summer produce!