’Tis (always) the season

I AM shocked that food writer Pete Brown told his audience at the Hay Festival supermarket apples can be stored for up to three years in nitrogen in order to give customers perfect apples all year round (Mail).

Is this really what we want? I recall a small boy in Tesco in a London suburb who asked me about the dormant apple tree in my trolley.

His incredulity at the fact that a few twigs could produce the cling filmwrapped Golden Delicious in his father’s trolley was a revelation — matched only by his father’s astonishment.

My hope for Brexit is that we can return to local produce, with British meat, fruit and vegetables in season in the supermarkets, rather than produce shipped from the other side of the globe.

GILL HALE, Glastonbury, Somerset.