Cherry blossom in my kitchen garden. I maintain an organic garden and buy fruit, vegetables and herbs from organic farmers, growers and markets in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Manchester and beyond. One teaspoon of the neonicotinoid pesticide ‘Cruiser SB’ – recently used on British sugar beet in East Anglia – is enough to kill 1.25 billion honeybees. Pesticides can stay in the soil for years, and they taint any flowering plant which grows, meaning that bees foraging for nectar from a flower can be poisoned years after treated seeds were planted. Not something I’d want to support in my local area. I worked for The Wildlife Trusts around 13 years ago and have supported Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s local ‘Wild Ingleborough’ upland nature restoration project for several years. You can learn more about my organic ingredients and ethical suppliers on my website, including @riverford, @_growingwithgrace_, @organicnorthwholesale, @shiptonmill, @sumawholefoods, @hodmedods, @realoliveco and others.