The market for buying organic food grows daily - we are all getting increasingly concerned about pesticides in our food and the food miles that our food has travelled. If you buy fruit and vegetables grown overseas, then the food miles that they have travelled will be huge. Buying fruit and vegetables out of season - whether organic or not - is not a sensible way to shop. They will have been picked upripe and chilled immediately - you will know yourself that the fruit never ripens but just goes from being hard to being soft and inedible. It is far better to buy your fruit or vegetables from a farmers' market or local greengrocer - better to buy locally then organic really! The balance is hard to decide on but the cost of food miles is always worth considering. The distance from the growers to your plate can be thousands of miles - the cost of the air freight and the damage to the environment is huge and will play a huge part in the decision on whether to buy organic or local produce.

Organic vegetable boxes are an easy way to buy organic food online - almost wherever you live in the UK you will be able to partake in an organic box scheme. Once you have signed up to a box scheme you will wonder why you didn't do it before - delicious fresh, seasonal and organic vegetables delivered to your doorstep! An organic box is the easiest way to buy organic food online.