We had some particularly lovely fruits and veggies through the door yesterday, so here are a few of the highlights ⭐️

First up, the watermelon radish from Fosketts. Looking pretty unassuming on the outside, but chop ’em down the middle and you’ll find that brilliant pink, citrus-esque centre. Slice them thin into salads, or we reckon they’d make a decent pickle.

Then we’ve got cooking apples from A G Harvest. This lot are Lord Derby, but Alice’ll also have the classic Bramley and Newton Wonder next week.

The pomegranates from Uni-Vert were practically glowing in the morning sun. Little beauties.

And finally, Bedlam’s Mini Turban Squash, which arrived looking like a box of very cute, jumbo-sized acorns. Yet another little reminder that autumn is officially on its way.

Hello you lovely lot,

It was a weirdly warm one in the warehouse yesterday, with a few of us getting ahead of ourselves and donning longer sleeves and pants, only to be regretting it by lunchtime. Next week looks like we’re in for another warm one, so perhaps we’ll hold off on the thermals for now!

This week we’ve had three fab new customers come on board who we’re really excited to be supplying.

First up is York St John University. As you all know, this year we were thrilled to start supplying some state schools in Manchester, and they’re back on the veg this week after the summer holidays. Now we’ve managed to get ourselves into a university too, with our Nick making the first delivery today. We’ve absolutely loved supplying schools over the past year and are keen to keep growing what we do in this sector, so today feels like a pretty exciting little milestone.

Next, we’re sending a bit of veg up the road to Northern Roots, an urban farm and eco-park right in the middle of Oldham. One of our former colleagues, Tom, is currently working there, and it’s a brilliant community project doing some good stuff. If you’re nearby, it’s definitely worth a nosey.

And our final new customer this week is The White Horse Inn, a historic boozer tucked away in the rolling hills of Shropshire. It’s recently reopened under new management and, from what we’ve seen, looks like exactly the sort of place we’ll be ticking off the list next time we’re over that way.

Before we crack on with the weekly veg updates, we’ve also got some good news on the As Pontis olive oil front. Miguel and his family have managed to reduce their prices a little, which is welcome news indeed.

The oil is produced in Extremadura, where large parts of the region remain wonderfully unspoiled, and it previously picked up two stars at the 2020 Great Taste Awards. The new prices are:

• 12 x 500ml glass bottles – £7.81 per bottle
• 6 x 1ltr glass bottles – £14.69 per bottle
• 4 x 3ltr tins – £41.44 per tin

We’re also listing some new olives from Niko this week. These are raw olives, meaning they haven’t been pasteurised or heated during the curing process, so they’re a little different from your usual jar of olives.

• Sundried Raw Kalamata Olives – 400g vacuum pack bags
• Raw Mixed Olives with Oregano – 200g jars
• Raw Mixed Pitted Olives with Oregano – 190g jars

Weekly veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, Newfields has red cabbage, red carrots, the first of the romanesco caulis, celery, kohl rabi and some Cara and manitou spuds.

• Elsewhere, Pollybell has some Jan king and red cabbages, Roddy’s some celery, rainbow chard and spinach and Bedlam some casperita, patty pan and wee be little squash.

• Next up, Fosketts has green beans again as well as some rainbow beets, black radish and salsify.

• Strawberry Fields also has some capserita squash as well as some celebration squash and Langton’s has black pearl aubs, small romanescos, cavolo Nero, courgettes and some red and green kale.

• Awen in Pembrokeshire has golden beets, red beets, red cabbage, endive, leeks, yellow onions, radicchio, perpetual spinach and parsley.

• Haslum are back on this week with their aubs, cucumbers and short cucumbers. And Terry has 5kg leeks and 1kg spinach.

• From our market gardens, AG Harvest has some Swiss chard, bramley apples and newton wonder apples, Trinity has some small broccoli, celery, kohl rabi mixed and bay leaves.

• And for our Wednesday customers, Growing Well has Redbor kale both bagged and loose and Moss Valley has Swiss chard, butterhead lettuce, rocket and spring onions.

• On the UK fruit front, Carey has Lord Lambourne and Rubinola apples, Mole End has some Robin apples and Windmill adds some fiesta and Lord Lambourne apples, Concorde and conference pears and the first quince of the year.

• From Portugal, Vasco has some butternuts and primosole mandarins.

• From Spain, we have figueres and yellow onions from Call Valls again. Courgettes from Ecosur and both yellow peppers and red Palermo peppers from Terra Rica.

• From Holland, Fairtrasa has cripps pink apples, royal gala apples and conference pears and Zann some parsnips and Granny Smiths apples.

• From France, Bio & Bio has figs and kaki fruits and our top picks from Dynamis this week are the courgette flowers, round aubergines, blue meat radish, black crimee tomatoes, red dragon fruits and jujubes.

• To line your pantry’s, we’ve got naked fava beans and rolled oats from Hodmedods, a brand new smooth houmous from Precious Pea, cider vinegar from Crone’s and we’ve had a fresh delivery of Call Valls Pantry so be sure to have a good look through the list.

Until next time,
Ell, Mads, Alph, Cathryn and Team ON x

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