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11:16am Thursday 8th May 2008
Booths is inviting customers go local during National Watercress Week (11-17 May).
Most watercress in the UK comes from Hampshire, but Booths buys its watercress from a Lancashire farm that grows the only watercress in the North of England.
Brothers James and Paul of Duerden Bros in Great Eccleston near Blackpool have been growing acres of the green superfood under glass on their farm for the past five years.
James says: "Our locally grown watercress has loads of flavour and is the freshest it possibly can be. We hand cut it and deliver it to the stores less than 24 hours later. It's almost as good as growing it yourself."
For some delicious watercress recipes, see this week's issue of The Westmorland Gazette, out on Friday, May 9.
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