Grower with chard
Serving the meal
Harvesting the salad crop
Cooking the curry
Pumpkin
Weeding the strawberry bed
Donated vegetables

Town Meal ingredients

Donate your veg or email growers@readingtownmeal.org.uk and we'll get back to you to arrange collection or delivery.

Do you have some beans to spare or a bumper crop of salad leaves? Does your apple tree always give more than you can eat? Our delicious menu needs the following:

Salad bits

  • lettuces and salad leaves
  • tomatoes
  • red peppers

Beans

  • broad beans
  • runner beans
  • French beans

Roots, onions and potatoes

  • beetroots
  • carrots
  • onions
  • garlic
  • potatoes

Pumpkins and squashes

  • pumpkins
  • squashes
  • courgettes
  • marrows

Fruit

If you have a glut of berries over the summer it would be great if you could freeze some for us.

  • apples - cookers and eaters
  • pears
  • plums
  • blackberries
  • currants - red, black or white
  • gooseberries
  • rhubarb
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