Apples are everywhere, squash has finally earned its place in the kitchen and British pears are having their brief moment of glory. A proper look at what's genuinely in season this month — and what to do with it.
See what's in season →The useful bit
Growing your own is wonderfully satisfying right up until everything becomes ready at exactly the same time.
There are worse problems to have.
Ideas for eating it, storing it and not wasting it.
Freeze them, dry them, turn them into apple butter, make chutney — or find somebody with a cider press.
The annual point at which even your neighbours stop answering the door.
Ripening the final crop indoors, roasting the good ones and making something worthwhile from those that refuse.
Drying, freezing, herb butter and the easiest ways to carry summer flavour into winter.
Food worth asking about
We can buy them every day of the year, in almost every shape and colour imaginable. So why can a tomato picked from the garden taste like an entirely different food?
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PEOPLE WHO GROW THINGS
The people behind the produce
Farming has spent decades getting bigger. But across Britain, a different kind of grower is trying something smaller.
Market gardens, tiny mixed farms and growers selling directly to their neighbours are challenging the idea that producing food has to mean thousands of acres and supermarket contracts. We want to meet the people trying to make it work.
Meet the growers →The farm shop where almost everything comes from within ten miles.
Who is planting Britain's new orchards?
Can you actually make a living from a market garden?