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Crop swap at Eastbourne Shop | Local Roots & Wellie Boots

25/02/2010

A unique grocery store on the south coast is leading the way in encouraging local produce and home grown fruit and vegetables with its swap-shop scheme.

 

Local Roots & Wellie Boots in Eastbourne has featured in this month's issue of Country Living magazine for its innovative scheme to encourage local gardeners and allotment holders to grow their own crops, with any left over being taken to the shop and swapped for something else. With every item in the shop coming from a local supplier, those that grow their own harvest have the chance to swap it at the shop and see their crops sold on, while getting the opportunity to enjoy another local product instead.

 

Eastbourne Borough Council Cabinet Member for Tourism, Cllr Susan Morris said "This is such a fantastic and novel idea and something that I'd really like to encourage our keen gardeners and farmers in and around Eastbourne to make the most of. Not only can they pass on their surplus crop to a good home where others can enjoy it, but they can also go into the shop and choose from hundreds of other local produce to swap it for. With a café in the shop as well, Local Roots & Wellie Boots makes a unique spot for visitors to Eastbourne to stop off for lunch or coffee with the chance to sample some of the south east's finest home grown fruit and vegetables."

 

Luke and Beverley Randall are the steering force behind Local Roots & Wellie Boots and are committed to delivery quality, ethically produced food and drink at affordable prices, with many of their products beating supermarkets on cost.

 

As well as selling fruit and vegetables grown in their own back garden, Local Roots & Wellie Boots also stocks food and drink from more than 70 suppliers across the region, including the purest water ever tested, which comes from a spring near Uckfield.

 

Offering the very best in local produce, the Grove Road shop offers a haven for food lovers visiting Eastbourne showcasing the best meat, cheese, milk, chutneys, jams, pasta, wines and more from the south east.

 

The shop is run by the Randall family with Luke or Beverley always on hand to tell you the about the provenance of the food.

 

From yoghurt made at a farm on Pevensey Marsh to chutneys lovingly made in Plumpton Green, and from milk from Hailsham and Ringmer to meat from award-winning Old Town butchers J Heath & Son - visiting foodies can taste their way around Sussex without having to leave the Eastbourne shop.

 

For more information on Local Roots & Wellie Boots telephone 01323 412 328, email local.roots@hotmail.com or become a fan on facebook.

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