(Under)cut flowers in Somerset

The local alternative to another supermarket-dominated, pesticide-ridden commodity

One of the outgoing Conservative government’s final acts in its 14 year tenure was to abolish an 8% import tariff on all cut flowers entering the UK.

Simply put, as of April, countries – which for the large part refers to African nations like Kenya, Ethiopia, and Rwanda – wishing to export cut flowers into Britain (often via Holland) can do so more chea…