A month before veg started disappearing from British supermarket shelves, Steve Cornwell walked into a greenhouse in Morocco and realised we faced an unprecedented crisis.
The farmer, whose business supplies salad to chains like Aldi, Asda and the Cooperative, was visiting a site where tomatoes are normally ripe and ready for picking in January.
“I was gobsmacked,” says Steve, owner of MBJSC Produce in Waltham Abbey, Essex.
