Journal

If there’s one vegetable to shout that it’s autumn, it’s got to be pumpkin. A pumpkin is a member of the winter squash family that includes an assortment of different-coloured, shaped and sized vegetables (or more accurately fruits).

It’s a simple premise – fed up of living in the big city and dreaming of a simple life in the country with a few chickens, sheep, a pig or two and why not a cow to make up numbers?

19th September to 4th October sees the annual celebration of all things British when it comes to food. More than ever we are appreciating food grown and produced here in the British Isles.

When Melrose and Morgan was just a glint in our eyes, over 15 years ago now, one of our main aims in opening a shop was to put grocery shopping back into the community. Back then, supermarkets were multiplying at an ever-increasing rate and ’independent’ was a dirty word. We’d grown up with visits to our local high streets, where we’d shop at the butcher, the baker, the fishmonger, the greengrocer, but now it was all about ‘one stop shopping’.