Seasonal eating guide

What's In Season in Cornwall

A guide to seasonal produce across Cornwall's growing year — from tender spring greens to winter root vegetables. Understanding what is in season helps you cook with variety, shop locally, and connect with the natural rhythm of Cornwall's land.

Four seasons

Cornwall's Seasonal Produce Calendar

Seasonal examples are illustrative and may vary depending on local supply, weather, harvest timing, and confirmed box arrangements. Cornish box contents change with each season.

Spring March – May

Spring Box

Fresh greens, early season herbs, tender shoots, and the first bright produce of the year as the land wakes up.

Produce examples

  • Spinach
  • Spring cabbage
  • New season potatoes
  • Radishes
  • Spring onions
  • Asparagus where available
  • Herbs
  • Early salad leaves

Examples may vary. Subject to local availability and season.

Summer June – August

Summer Box

Colourful harvests, abundant salad crops, seasonal berries and fruit where available from local suppliers.

Produce examples

  • Tomatoes
  • Courgettes
  • Cucumbers
  • Runner beans
  • Lettuce and mixed leaves
  • Fresh herbs
  • Berries where available
  • Summer squash

Examples may vary. Subject to local availability and season.

Autumn September – November

Autumn Box

Earthy roots, squash-style produce, apples and pears where available, and preserves from local makers.

Produce examples

  • Pumpkins and squash
  • Beetroot
  • Parsnips
  • Carrots
  • Leeks
  • Apples where available
  • Kale
  • Onions

Examples may vary. Subject to local availability and season.

Winter December – February

Winter Box

Hardy greens, storage roots, robust cooking ingredients, and warming seasonal produce for winter meals.

Produce examples

  • Kale and cavolo nero
  • Celeriac
  • Parsnips
  • Swede
  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Stored apples where available
  • Leeks
  • Winter cabbage

Examples may vary. Subject to local availability and season.

Box contents, seasonal produce, and local supplier availability vary by season, weather, harvest conditions, and confirmed subscription arrangements. Produce categories shown are examples only.

Seasonal eating

Why Eating With the Seasons Matters

Variety across the year

When you eat seasonally, you naturally eat a wider variety of produce over the year than a supermarket weekly shop typically provides. Spring greens, summer salads, autumn squash, and winter roots all bring different flavours and textures.

Supporting local food routes

Choosing local seasonal produce supports regional growers and producers who are growing to the natural cycle of the season — not to a year-round supermarket specification.

Cooking with the seasons

Seasonal cooking changes your kitchen habits and recipes. Each season brings its own produce-led inspiration — lighter spring dishes, hearty autumn meals, warming winter roots, fresh summer salads.

Connection to where food grows

Seasonal boxes reconnect you with how food actually grows — not year-round, not always the same, and always shaped by weather, soil, and harvest conditions.

Seasonal eating guidance on this page is for general educational purposes. Box contents at any given time depend on confirmed subscription arrangements, local supplier availability, weather, and harvest conditions — not this guide alone.

Month by month

A Month-by-Month Seasonal Guide

A general guide to seasonal produce availability across the year in Cornwall and the UK. Examples only — subject to local conditions.

January
  • Kale
  • Purple sprouting broccoli (early)
  • Leeks
  • Swede
  • Celeriac
  • Parsnips
  • Winter cabbage
  • Stored apples
February
  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Kale
  • Leeks
  • Savoy cabbage
  • Celeriac
  • Carrots
  • Swede
March
  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Spring greens
  • Leeks
  • Watercress
  • Wild garlic (where available)
  • Rhubarb
April
  • Spring greens
  • Radishes
  • Sorrel
  • Asparagus (early)
  • Spinach
  • Spring onions
  • Herbs
May
  • Asparagus
  • Broad beans
  • Spring onions
  • New potatoes
  • Lettuce
  • Fresh herbs
  • Peas
June
  • Broad beans
  • Courgettes
  • Peas
  • Strawberries (where available)
  • New potatoes
  • Lettuce
  • Runner beans (early)
July
  • Courgettes
  • Runner beans
  • Tomatoes
  • Cucumbers
  • Berries (where available)
  • Fresh herbs
  • Lettuce
  • Summer squash
August
  • Tomatoes
  • Courgettes
  • Runner beans
  • French beans
  • Sweetcorn
  • Berries
  • Lettuce
  • Basil
September
  • Pumpkins (early)
  • Squash
  • Apples (where available)
  • Sweetcorn
  • Runner beans
  • Leeks (early)
  • Tomatoes
October
  • Pumpkins
  • Squash
  • Leeks
  • Beetroot
  • Kale
  • Apples and pears (where available)
  • Parsnips (early)
November
  • Leeks
  • Kale
  • Parsnips
  • Beetroot
  • Squash
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Celeriac
  • Swede
December
  • Kale
  • Leeks
  • Parsnips
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Celeriac
  • Swede
  • Red cabbage
  • Stored apples

All seasonal examples are illustrative guides only. Local availability, harvest timing, weather, and individual box arrangements may differ. This guide does not constitute a guarantee of box contents.

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