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Breaking cover: Hugh Fearnley-Whittinstall’s latest book offers dozens of recipes around healthy veg dishes
Award-winning broadcaster, writer and food campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has published his latest book, which lays out on how to turn 12 everyday vegetables into 100 joyful and health-boosting recipes.
High Fibre Heroes celebrates 12 of the most inexpensive, recognisable, versatile and readily available plant superstars in Britain that will help you boost your fibre count and hit your 30 plants a week in no time at all.
Fearnley-Whittingstall said: “I absolutely love growing my own organic ingredients and you can do the same. There’s plenty of spring and summer left to get sowing, growing, picking and cooking your own vegetables.”
Many of us aren’t getting enough fibre in our diets. In his latest book, Fearnley-Whittingstall shows how simple and delicious it can be with easy recipes all celebrating these 12 veggies. Many of the recipes use only one pan and can be on the table within half an hour.
The collaboration brings together two companies with a shared mission – to inspire people to grow and cook with organic vegetables – and reinforces their joint values of sustainability, food integrity and accessibility.
The 2026 collection of River Cottage Organic Seeds includes 19 varieties of vegetable seeds including: beetroot, carrot and chard, as well as rocket, spinach, peas and squash. Prices start at just £2.99 per packet.
There are also kitchen garden bundles of seeds, starter grow bundles and bundles containing a mixture of River Cottage and Seed Revolution seeds, which offer a complete organic vegetable and wildflower ecosystem for maximum harvests.
Using wildflowers as companion plants in vegetable gardens boosts biodiversity, attracts pollinators, deters pests, and enhances the overall health of your crops.
“Wildflowers and vegetables are the perfect companions because they don’t compete, but instead support each other by improving pollination, helping control pests and creating a healthier balance in the garden without adding extra work.”
And Fearnley-Whittingstall said, “Our River Cottage range of organic vegetable seeds offer customers some of our favourite varieties of vegetables, whether they’re a seasoned gardener or just starting. It means they can grow and take the finest, freshest vegetables from their garden straight to their kitchen.”
- The River Cottage seeds are available from Seed Revolution’s website and also from River Cottage’s website – as well as from selected Blue Diamond Garden Centres
- Click here to download Seed Revolution’s wildflower and vegetable guide to companion planting
- Sorry, but you can’t choose what variety of seeds you’ll be sent – the selection for despatch is entirely random and subject to availability
- You must be a paying subscriber to be eligible for the free seeds
- Don’t delay – only the first 10 eligible subscribers to email will claim their free packet of seeds
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittinstall’s High Fibre Heroes is available direct from publishers Bloomsbury at the discount price of £18.20. Click here to order
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