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The Lizard Leaf Company
Your local specialty babyleaf salad growers in Cornwall.
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LOCAL We have been producing baby salad leaves since 2003. Our business was originally based at St.Martin on the Lizard Peninsular - hence our name Lizard Leaves. We have recently moved to a bigger site at Mylor Downs, near Penryn. This fertile and sheltered part of West Cornwall has provided us with a more suitable soil type and better growing conditions for tender baby salad leaf crops. |
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FLAVOUR The great flavour of our babyleaf salad leaves comes from growing varieties which we have selected for their great flavour rather than for their abilities to perform in areas such as yield or uniformity. |
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FRESHNESS All our leaves are refrigerated on site to between 3-5 degrees centigrade immediately after cutting and where possible we aim to harvest and deliver on the same day so our produce is always really fresh. All our salad leaves are supplied unwashed to preserve maximum freshness and natural keeping qualities. |
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SPECIALIST Babyleaf salad production is our speciality and we are a small family run enterprise that can offer a friendly, personalised and accurate service to all our customers throughout the season |
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FOOD MILES All our salad leaves are grown in Cornwall and we supply our local Cornish fruit and vegetable wholesalers who sell and distribute our products for us. This reduces food miles to a minimum. |
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| QUALITY We grow our babyleaf salad leaves in a well maintained healthy soil enriched with lots of natural fertility, liquid seaweed extracts and mineral rich comfrey juice |
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CARBON FOOTPRINT We grow without the use of insecticides, fungicides and chemical fertilizers. Our aim is to also grow with minimal use of fossil fuels. All our babyleaf salad leaves are hand harvested and packed without the use of modified atmosphere gases. |
