A selection of articles involving Lea Valley Growers.

Please contact LVGA Secretary Lee Stiles on 01992 625 076 Lee.stiles@LVGA.co.uk for further information.

Recent media featuring Lea Valley Growers

BBC One & BBC IPlayer "We are England" Our Family Cucumber Farm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001d85j

Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/06/cucumber-capital-growers-selling-up-as-brexit-and-energy-crisis-hits-britains-vegetable-industry

Sky News

https://youtu.be/Gs_cxiyeA_o://youtu.be/Gs_cxiyeA_o://youtu.be/Gs_cxiyeA_o

Financial Times

https://www.ft.com/content/f2d7494d-429e-49e1-aa37-97dc9eb1ecbc

Jeremy Vine Show

https://twitter.com/LeaValleyGrower/status/1520039957989150722

The Sunday Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-the-golden-age-of-cheap-food-over-lqxptdkxr

The Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/produce-growers-caught-in-crossfire-of-price-wars-ncl38hnzm

BBC Stacey Dooley (Featuring Lea Valley Growers)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000scmn/the-nine-to-five-with-stacey-dooley-series-2-3-cool-as-a-cucumber

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-energy-farming-idAFKCN2LS0EK

The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/food-shortage-warning-as-fertiliser-rationed-7bd8jg8gz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014xwc
Publications

https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9401754/it-doesn-t-make-financial-sense-to-plant/

http://www.fruitnet.com/fpj/article/187704/gas-price-hike-may-lead-to-produce-shortages

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10601685/Potato-pasta-prices-set-rise-50-cent-say-farmers.html

https://issuu.com/nfuhorticulture/docs/spring_2022

https://hortnews.com/gas-prices-hit-uk-greenhouse-production/

Brexit & Crop Shortages

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-17/how-boris-johnson-can-keep-britons-eating-their-fresh-vegetables

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009r60

https://www.fginsight.com/vip/vip/brexit-labour-access-top-priority-for-uk-horticulture--18914

http://www.fwi.co.uk/business/courgette-shortage-exposes-uk-reliance-imports.htm

http://www.hortweek.com/will-crop-shortages-help-case-uk-investment/edibles/article/1424185

Television Dramas & Sci-Fi filmed at Lea Valley Nurseries

Humans (Channel 4)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/humans/episode-guide

Netflix - Black Mirror (Hated in the Nation)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/0/black-mirror-season-3-finale-hated-in-the-nation-review-charlie/

Princess Royal Visit (2017)

http://www.hortweek.com/princess-anne-tours-state-of-the-art-lea-valley-glasshouse/edibles/article/1422371

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/15050922.Princess_Royal_visits_Epping_Forest/?ref=mr&lp=18

http://www.hortidaily.com/article/31900/Princess-Anne-visits-Lea-Valley-glasshouse

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/princess_royal_visits_huge_new_glasshouse_at_valley_grown_nurseries_in_lea_valley_1_4863491

http://www.hortweek.com/lea-valley-growers-welcome-supportive-district-council-local-plan-opening-8m-valley-grown-nurseries-glasshouse-nears/edibles/article/1418734

Planning 2016

http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/Legal-challenge-fails-halt-Valley-Grown-Nursery/story-29159309-detail/story.html

http://www.39essex.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Lee-Valley-RPA-v-Epping-Forest-DC-judgment-22-April-2016.pdf

http://www.39essex.com/meaning-inappropriate-development-green-belt-peter-village-qc-ned-helme-succeed-court-appeal-lee-valley-glasshouse-case/

http://www.publiclawtoday.co.uk/local-government/planning/401-planning-articles-news/29750-court-of-appeal-rules-on-meaning-of-inappropriate-development-in-green-belt

http://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1392519/court-appeal-gives-go-ahead-glasshouse-essex-green-belt

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/14432314.Your_Local_Guardian_calls_for_end_to_Lee_Valley_tax_on_south_west_Londoners_ahead_of_Mayoral_election/

ITV News

 http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2014-05-22/greenhouse-development-causes-controversy/

http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist//ITN/2014/05/15/T15051416/

BBC Radio

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zvj1s/p0202kj2

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043x69q 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04570qv 

BBC Countryfile

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t0bv/episodes/player

Epping Forest Guardian http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/11231661.21_acre_nursery_expansion____devastating____for_Green_Belt/

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/11230427._Largst_expansion_in_Lee_Valley_for_50_years__given_go_ahead/

National Farmers Union

http://www.nfuonline.com/about-us/our-offices/east-anglia/latest-news/salad-crops-go-for-growth-in-the-lea-valley/

Fresh Produce Magazine

http://www.fruitnet.com/fpj/article/161574/lea-valley-wins-major-expansion-approval?utm_source=Exports+from+Chile+and+South+Africa+down%3B+Lea+Valley+wins+expansion+backing%3B+Director+at+The+Greenery+to+quit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Exports+from+Chile+and+South+Africa+down%3B+Lea+Valley+wins+expansion+backing%3B+Director+at+The+Greenery+to+quit

Fresh Plaza

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/121196/UK-Expansion-of-Lea-Valley-glasshouses-to-boost-British-grown-salad-crops

EADT

http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/farming/essex_go_ahead_given_for_major_expansion_of_glasshouses_for_salad_crops_in_lea_valley_at_nazeing_1_3612074

Farmers Guardian

 http://www.rightsandwrongs.co.uk/component/content/article/22767-growing-food-for-britain-with-one-foot-nailed-to-the-floor

Hertfordshire Mercury

http://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/News/Nazeings-Valley-Grown-nursery-set-for-biggest-expansion-in-half-a-century-20140530070000.htm

Hortidaily

http://www.hortidaily.com/article/8850/UK-Lea-Valley-greenhouse-development-causes-controversy 

Horticulture Week

http://www.hortweek.com/news/login/1296260/