Local Food Directory | What's Good Now?

These tables are concise and only show what is in the peak season for each month. Each type of food will usually be available for around a month after it goes out of season.

Beef, poultry and pork aren't seasonal in the same way as the other meats featured in these tables and so can be eaten all year round.

If you don't know what a food is, or the best recommended way to cook it, click on the link and it'll tell you.


Meat	Fruit and Nuts	Fish & Seafood	Vegetables & Mushrooms	Cheeses
Beef Chicken Goose Grouse Hare Lamb Mallard Partridge Pork Ptarmigan Rabbit Snipe Venison Wood Pigeon	Apples Blackberries Blueberries Chestnuts Cobnuts Crab Apples Damsons Elderberries Loganberries Pears Plums Raspberries Redcurrants Sloes Strawberries Walnuts	Black Bream Brown Crab Eel Herring Lobster Mackerel Mussels Native Oysters Sea Trout Turbot	Aubergine Beetroot Broad Beans Broccoli Cabbages Carrots Cauliflower Chard Courgette Cucumber Dandelion Endive Fennel French Beans Garlic Globe Artichokes Kale Kohlrabi Leeks Lettuce Onions Peas Potatoes Pumpkins Runner Beans Samphire Sorrel Spinach Spring Onions Squash Swede Sweetcorn Tomatoes Turnips Watercress Wild Mushrooms Wild Rocket

Buying and cooking with the seasons means tasting the food when it is at its best, and most full of goodness. It takes a little effort to start with, but it can be as simple as not buying enormous and tasteless strawberries in December. You'll be so glad when the sweet, delicious English ones appear. By buying what's good now, you are living in harmony with the seasons and the food around you.

These pages also feature some of our favourite seasonal recipes, and hopefully some of yours too. Everyone remembers their mother's soup, their grandmother's Christmas cake, or their brother's poached eggs on toast.

These meals and memories bind us together, and the love that went into making them is what makes the difference between nutrition and nourishment. We are going to stuff these pages full of lovely things to do with local, seasonal produce, but you can help us to make these pages special by contributing your favourites to recipes@thelfd.com. They'll feature here under the title you give us, so go on, make Uncle Norman's Shortbread famous.
You know you want to.