My camera roll is awash with colour from all the lovely UK produce!

💜 Damson punnets from the AG Harvest

💛 Yellow gages from Oakwood

🌈 Rainbow cocktail tomatoes from Awen

🍆 And just LOOK at those mixed aubergines from Flourish!

*Sadly, the damsons from AG Harvest aren’t on this week’s list, but you can grab some Shropshire prunes from Augernik instead 💜

Hey folks,

Quick one before I get going, the Dynamis cut off is 3pm tmorra for Mon/Tues customers because of the French bank holiday this week. Also, one of our wholesale suppliers of pantry items is closing for a couple of weeks so if you don’t want to run dry of salt, olive oils etc, this is the week to really load up.

Right then, where was I? You can all see the weather/climate so I won’t bang on about it for a change but scary times, eh! Yields are down this year for many crops and come the winter, this will mean us leaning more heavily on imported produce no doubt, so long as good supply remains available.

Anyhoo, regardless of the armageddon and that, we’re very busy this end thinking up and implementing improvements to what we do. One such improvement is something that our Ell has begun working on recently. Namely, attaching interesting info about the history, culinary uses, nutritional value/allergens and storage info for all of the 9000 lines that we’ve listed over the last 8 years…the time since we launched our own in-house built software that we use every day.

Though Ell’s finding it an interesting learning exercise, as you can imagine, that’s a mammoth task for any one person so she’s gonna try and populate the info for a new grower each week amongst her many other responsibilities. The first one this week is Haslum so be sure to try clicking the wee ‘i’ icon on each line to bring up photos and info together for that line. As ever, what is ours is yours so feel free to use the info/photos as you please through your own comms channels.

In her chat with our long-standing grower, Stephen Haslum, our Ell learnt that they’re having particular difficulty growing tomatoes these days due to a pest that Stephen believes he would have a difficult time controlling if using non-organic methods. For this reason, he’s unfortunately looking to cease tomato production as of next year. Thankfully, we’re being approached by new growers pretty regularly these days and some of those will hopefully be able to fill the gap that Stephen’s tomatoes leave.

That brings me neatly onto something that our Alph is looking forward to getting his teeth into very shortly too. After contacting most of you guys already recently for a chat about how we’re doing/what you’d like us to look into changing etc, Alph’s had the idea of reaching out to our network again (to growers, suppliers and customers) to see if we can grow our network in a bid to make it more resilient. More growers on our list means more choice/more resilience and they can only be added if we’ve more demand. If there’s more demand, we can also reinvest more of our efforts into improving what we do as we don’t have any private shareholders that look to extract money from what we do. So expect a call from him at some point soon as he looks to uncover recommended leads from you guys for new growers, suppliers or potential customers. If any of the leads come off, there’s some ££ rewards to look forward to- so we’ll work scratching your brains for this one.

Weekly veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, from Newfields we have some large bags of alouettes and carolous spuds and Pollybell has some more of the broccoli available.

• Elsewhere, Chapel has kohl rabi, 20kg bags of yellow onions and marfona potatoes, and Roddy’s some leeks and some UK grown canteloupes!

• Next up, Bedlam has gem, harlequin and onion squash available, and Fosketts have added red beets, golden beets and chioggia.

• Strawberry Fields also some golden beets and chioggia, as well as some red kuri squash and the first of their sweetcorn.

• Awen has some aubs, climbing beans, golden beets, chioggia and dried shallots, and Hael has some hispi cabbage again, as well as some mixed cherry tomatoes and mixed salad leaves.

• Flourish have some thumbelina cucumbers again and Trinity has added some long aubs, mixed salad, mixed heirloom tomatoes and mixed tomatoes in punnets.

• From our market gardens, Growing Well has blauhilde beans, cobra beans, mixed cherry tomatoes, plum tomatoes and cavolo Nero.

• And for our Wednesday customers, Moss Valley has some green beans and red radishes and Sheffield Organicshas some mixed courgettes and sakura cherry tomatoes.

• On the UK fruit front, we have discovery apples and Victoria plums from Oakwood, Hanka plums from Pardoe. We also have Excalibur plums and Seneca plums from Carey’s.

• Mole End had added some discovery apples and rosette apples to their offering and Augernik has some Shropshire Prune damsons, as well as some Kentish cobnuts, cosford filberts and dried walnuts.

• From Spain, Cal Vall has some figueres onions and Bioalgarrobo some cherry tomatoes, lychee and small tommy mangoes.

• From Holland, Haciendas has some black figs and Zann some habanero chillies, padron peppers, salsify and pomegranates.

• From France, Uni-Vert has some courgettes, Red Williams pears and Mirabelle plums and Bio & Bio has some Bourjassotte black figs and tommy atkins mangoes.

• Our top picks from Dynamis are the yellow martin plums, d’Ente plums, muscat de hambourg grapes, white chasselas grapes, mixed ribbed tomatoes and orange coeur de beouf tomatoes.

• Lastly, to line your pantry’s we’re stocking back up on Ekolo juices, ginger kombucha from Equinox and loads of the lovely jams from Hembridge.

That’s all from us this week and I’ll speak to yous all soon whilst processing the orders.

Pray for rain!

Sean, Mads, Alph, Ell, Cathryn and Team ON x

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