So here we are mourning the veggie box

Bloody farmers.
I will not launch in to a long rant against french farmers (oh go on then) who since the post war period, when parts of Europe were starving, have benefitted from enormous encouragement from the French state and the European Union. The common agricultural policy, of which France has long been the main beneficiary, is the main common policy to have survived and was designed at de Gaulle's insistence. Whatever, the bloody French farmers are used to healthey subsidies and tipping pig manure on the steps of the town hall but right now that is not why they are so annoying. Loic, the farmer who provides us with the vegetables we collect every saturday for the veggie box has decided to pull out, despite our signing elaborate contracts and paying him in advance for vegetables until March. After putting up with his muddy chard and mutant celeriac, HE has deided that our AMAP is not big enough and that we don't help out at the farm enough... Bloody hell, we are paying for the kolkhose. So hopefully we will get our money back and find a new veggie box distributor, one that doesn't require us to spend our January weekends digging up onions.