EAT the season with Sarah Raven

Early autumn has to be my favourite moment in the veg garden and greenhouse. March gives life-enhancing spring abundance, with a brilliant range of strong and interesting-tasting salads, wilted greens and herbs to pick every day as we come out of winter, and I love that, but this time of year tops it. Everywhere you look there’s something exciting to pick and eat, with almost no day needing to give you the same harvest as the one before. The range of food we grow is at its high point. It’s hard to keep up with the produce – and that’s a good feeling, particularly if you have a freezer to stash away the brimming tastes and crops of this prolific moment.

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