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Greengrocer · Brighouse town centre

British fruit and veg, in the middle of Brighouse.

A greengrocer on Commercial Street, leaning hard on British growers and on the things a supermarket aisle never carries.

There has been a fruit and veg shop on this spot for fifty years. It changed hands at the turn of this year, and the job is the same as ever: buy well, keep it moving, sell it while it is worth eating.

British-grown firstSeasonal soft fruitOrganic linesThe unusual and the hard to find
An outdoor market stall stacked with fruit and vegetables

What's in season

Pick a month and see what the British growing year is giving. It is why a good greengrocer looks different in February and July, and why we buy the way we do.

Twelve months of the British growing year, below.

January

Rhubarb, forced in the dark. Roots taste sweeter for the frost they have had.

Fruit

  • Forced rhubarb
  • Stored apples
  • Stored pears

Vegetables

  • Brussels sprouts
  • Kale
  • Leeks
  • Parsnips
  • Swede
  • Savoy cabbage
  • Celeriac

February

Pink rhubarb. The first purple sprouting broccoli, if the winter has been kind.

Fruit

  • Forced rhubarb
  • Stored apples

Vegetables

  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Kale
  • Leeks
  • Parsnips
  • Celeriac

March

The hungry gap. Sprouting broccoli and the first spring greens carry the month.

Fruit

  • Rhubarb
  • Stored apples

Vegetables

  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Spring greens
  • Spring onions
  • Leeks
  • Radishes
  • Wild garlic

April

Spring, properly. Jersey Royals land and the asparagus is only days away.

Fruit

  • Rhubarb

Vegetables

  • Jersey Royal potatoes
  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Spring greens
  • Watercress
  • Wild garlic
  • Spinach
  • Radishes

May

Asparagus. Six or seven weeks of it, then gone until next year.

Fruit

  • Rhubarb
  • The first strawberries

Vegetables

  • Asparagus
  • Jersey Royal potatoes
  • Broad beans
  • Peas
  • Lettuce
  • Spinach
  • Radishes

June

Soft fruit starts. Strawberries hit their stride and the peas arrive.

Fruit

  • Strawberries
  • Gooseberries
  • Cherries
  • Early raspberries

Vegetables

  • Asparagus, till midsummer
  • New potatoes
  • Broad beans
  • Peas
  • Courgettes
  • Beetroot

July

The big month. Raspberries, currants and cherries at once, and none of them waits.

Fruit

  • Raspberries
  • Strawberries
  • Cherries
  • Blackcurrants
  • Gooseberries

Vegetables

  • Runner beans
  • French beans
  • Courgettes
  • New potatoes
  • Peas
  • Tomatoes

August

Plum time. Blackberries come off the hedges and tomatoes finally taste of something.

Fruit

  • Blackberries
  • Raspberries
  • Plums
  • Greengages
  • Blueberries

Vegetables

  • Runner beans
  • Sweetcorn
  • Courgettes
  • Tomatoes
  • Cucumbers
  • Onions

September

Orchard weather. Plums, damsons and the first apples off the tree.

Fruit

  • Plums
  • Damsons
  • Blackberries
  • Early apples
  • Pears

Vegetables

  • Sweetcorn
  • Runner beans
  • Marrows
  • Tomatoes
  • Beetroot
  • Kale

October

Apple month. Pears and quince beside them, and the first of the squash.

Fruit

  • Apples
  • Pears
  • Quince
  • The last blackberries

Vegetables

  • Pumpkins
  • Squash
  • Leeks
  • Kale
  • Celeriac
  • Mushrooms

November

Roots and brassicas. They take the table back, with stored apples for the bowl.

Fruit

  • Apples
  • Pears
  • Quince

Vegetables

  • Brussels sprouts
  • Parsnips
  • Leeks
  • Kale
  • Swede
  • Red cabbage
  • Celeriac

December

Sprouts on the stalk. Parsnips are the better for a frost, and red cabbage is for the table.

Fruit

  • Stored apples
  • Stored pears

Vegetables

  • Brussels sprouts
  • Parsnips
  • Red cabbage
  • Savoy cabbage
  • Leeks
  • Swede
  • Carrots

Weather moves all of this. A mild winter or a late frost shifts a crop by a fortnight either way. Ring for something in particular and we will tell you straight whether it has come in.

A colourful farmers' market display of fresh fruit and vegetables

What's on the stall

Fruit and vegetables, and not much else. Here is what we go out of our way for.

British-grown, wherever it can be

The first question is where it was grown. British produce picked nearer to when you eat it tastes of what it should, and that is the whole argument for shopping this way.

Soft fruit in its season

Blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants. They come in a rush and they are gone in weeks, so they are worth planning a week's eating around.

Organic lines

Organic fruit and veg sit alongside the rest, so shopping that way does not mean a second trip somewhere else.

The unusual and the hard to find

The odd variety, or the vegetable a recipe insists on and nowhere stocks. Ask, and we will see what can be got in.

What things cost

Prices are up on the boards in the shop and they move with the market week to week. Ring or call in and we will tell you what things are today.

Fifty years, and new hands on it

A fruit and veg shop has stood on this spot for fifty years. Generations of Brighouse have carried their potatoes and their apples out of this door. On a town-centre street, staying the same trade that long takes some doing.

The shop changed hands at the turn of this year. Same address, same trade, and the same reason for being there.

Come in and say hello. If you have shopped here for thirty years, we would like you to carry on.

Fresh fruit and vegetables seen from above
A wooden market stall of fruit and vegetables

Find the shop

We are at 17 Commercial Street, in the middle of Brighouse, open six days a week. Ring to hear what has come in, or send a note over and we will get back to you.

Monday to Friday08:00 — 17:00
Saturday08:00 — 16:00
SundayClosed
The Veg Shop 17 Commercial Street, Brighouse, West Yorkshire HD6 1AF.
07123 456789 · sample@youremail.co.uk
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A market display of fruit

Bank holidays can differ from the times above — worth a quick ring before a special trip.

Ask us something

What is good this week, whether we can get hold of something, or anything else at all.

The Veg Shop usually replies quickly