After Brexit - am I stupid or what?

True, but if the general public keep buying the cheaper imports, then nothing will change.
Look at the Guernsey Tomato, is there anyone actually still growing them anymore. The growers said "What you pay in the supermarket is not what growers get".

 

I think the Guernsey tomato couldn't compete with Spanish and Dutch imports.
We do get English ones now though.

 

I'm keeping my eye on the veg I get from Tesco (delivered, so can't choose myself). My green beans are from Senegal and courgettes from Mexico. Obviously they are not in season so just occasional treats at the moment, we'll see in the summer if the in-season products change to UK grown or continue to be EU ones. I sincerely hope we will not start shipping cabbages from New Zealand.

The fact remains that smaller firms that used to have the huge German market at their doorstep are now struggling to find enough customers in the UK to keep their business running. Vice versa for the EU small firms.

It's the big ones who will decide weather to source locally or go for further away overseas suppliers. Tesco, I'm looking at you.

I wonder if cabbage farming makes a living in the UK, and how much land it takes to make it profitable in a larger scale? This is a small, densely populated island after all.

 

Morrison's were selling runner beans from Kenya all last summer.
I think often the British farmers cant guarantee continued large scale supply on some veg.

 

You've got the artichoke market in the bag or was it parsnips?

 

I'll do the artichokes and I think it was @Scrungee to do the 5000 parsnips

We'll be RICH

 

There's always home grown New Zealand Spinach.

 

I reckon @Scrungee must be at least the 3rd richest person in the world already
I'd offer the fruits of my 250 asparagus plants, but you won't be wanting to import any nasty, French veg, now will you?

 

That sounds a bit far fetched to me.

 

Apparently they grow very nice onions.

I'll get me bike.

 

My taste buds have changed, so I have benefited from imported food. I love Thai cuisine, I have been married now for 19 years and when my wife first arrived in the UK it was missing Thai cuisine that would make her home sick as much as missing her mum.

Now it is so easy to get Asian cuisine, we regularly have, egg plant, papaya, yard bean, morning glory, bamboo shoots, kale, lemon grass etc etc in our fridge, plus loads of chillies.