Local Produce

If you pop to the ASDA or Tesco's in Blackpool, you will see some seasonal delicacies on the shelves at the moment, British strawberries for example grown somewhere down south of England. Believe it or not, Blackpool might be a seaside tourist town, but it has a few agricultural power houses of it's own.

Just outside Blackpool in Kirkham, a well known farm produces some of the best strawberries I have ever tasted. Little alpine strawberries packed with a juicy sweet flavour to rival those much larger tart and tasteless 'Elsanta' varieties typically found in the supermarket. For just £1.50 a punnet, they can be found stocked at the little greengrocers on Whitegate Drive next to the Saddle Inn.

If you happen to like raspberries too, then head over to Booths. Picked fresh from Barrow & Son's nurseries less than a mile away from their nearest store, the taste is out of this world. Picked today, in store tomorrow.

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