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We caught up with Enwezor Nzegwu who runs Be Locals , supplying meat and produce from local farms for people who live locally. Every Thursday morning Enwezor shared an update on what's available so if you order by 8 pm, he can deliver the products to you by Saturday. You can imagine how fresh everything is! Enwezor Nzegwu on  Thursday 19 November 2020 Sometimes I forget that my customers don't get to see what it's really like on the farms that I visit every week when I pick up produce for Be Locals. This is a picture of Tim's farm. It's been in his family for over 70 years. To me, the farm seems enormous but Tim says it's not that big. As for livestock, Tim has these lovely pigs and cattle also growing arable produce like wheat. Tim's cattle out in the fields You'll see Tim's cattle roaming in the fields all through the year. They always stick together in a herd in one part of the field and they'll nearly always come up to you if you come up to t...

Enwezor Nzegwu is the founder of a new initiative called Be Locals and we had a quick chat with him recently to find out more. Here's what he said: "We're lucky enough to have many fantastic local food producers in and around the Portsmouth area. As a former Great British Bake Off contestant, I'm a complete foodie and into good quality produce which for years I've found it really hard to access especially when we all have such busy lives. Over the past year, I've been really looking into what is available locally and I've been amazed at the quality and diversity of the produce. There's a problem though - many of us have very busy lives so we don't have time to find quality local food producers and local producers don't have the skills or resources to get into the local market. I set up Be Locals to solve this problem, to create a local market that connects local consumers with local producers. Why does so much of our food have to travel...