Online Ordering for 2nd November – 6th November (Week 44)
Getting Alph to pose with different veg is becoming a favourite pastime of ours 😁🥬
Looking pretty proud with his not-so-baby pumpkin! You can get your hands on these from Dynamis, and the Awen January King cabbages are looking very good at the moment too 🙌🏼
Good afternoon everyone,
This week the government has reduced import taxes on the nitrogen fertilisers that ‘conventional agriculture’ relies on and has told us to stockpile tinned goods and wind up radios…we’re in safe hands, eh.
Minimum wage set to rise but 18-20 year-olds will not get bigger increases – BBC News
Just an idea, but how about we rather look to reestablish our domestic food production and in the process, our food sovereignty and security. We need to be made less at risk from geopolitical and environmental shocks. How about we stop letting nature pay the price of extractive food production methods and tax the big corporations for ruining our seas, rivers, bird and invertebrate populations, the air we breathe and our fecking health in the process. Sorry, wrong meeting.
Let’s ignore this often brutal reality for a second and instead enjoy the fact that the great playwright Alan Bennett once bought a humongous tundra cabbage from one of pals, Janet who used to run a market stall up in Penrith. If any of you guys have any other tales of superstars like Alan shopping with you, we’d love to hear of them.
To further counter the huge amount of very justifiable doom and gloom that’s around just now, here’s a wee video of a farm visit our Ajay undertook at Roddy’s Organics. We really enjoyed watching this and hope you do too. All farm visit vids can be found on the farm name line of our weekly list by clicking the video icon next to the farm name. Feel free to use and share them as much as you like.
Roddy’s Organics – Organic North Wholesalers
Our Ell’s weekly veg updates:
- Starting in the UK, Royal Oak has large chioggia and golden beets, savoy cabbages tundra cabbages, dirty rainbow carrots, tender green kale shoots and a variety of squash.
- Next up, Newfields has caulis and swedes and Pollybell some celeriac.
- Chapel has some tundra cabbages, Staples some broccoli and Roddy’s some Swiss chard.
- Next up, Fosketts has some pak choi and both their red and french breakfast radish again.
- Flourish has palla gaillo and treviso radicchio as well as some butternuts and sweet ball turnips.
- Trinity has rocket and lemon drop green chillies agains.
- And for our Wednesday customers, Moss Valley has some leeks and coriander.
- On the UK fruit front, Oakwood has fiesta, initial and rubin as well as their discovery juice and gala juice.
- Carey add some topaz apples and Mole End has Cox Royale and some packhams pears.
- Dart Valley also has some of their grey oyster mushrooms available again.
- From Spain, Biovergel has navelina oranges, Bioandalusi some oronules clems and Campo some mini romaine lettuce.
- Elsewhere in Spain, Cal Vall has garlic available as well as figueres, red and yellow onions and some butternuts too.
- Las Hortichuelas return to the list with cherry vine toms, cocktail toms, plum toms and vine toms.
- From Holland, Fairtasa adds some Granny Smith apples and galas apples and Zann has some red seedless grapes and green kiwis.
- From France, Uni-Vert has loads available including red butterhead lettuce, bunched red radish, Hokkaido squash, dalinette apples, inored apples and some citrus.
- Bio & Bio has celery, red peppers, bergamot, Hayward kiwis and pomegranates and our top picks from Dynamis are pink tongue aubergines, Jerusalem artichokes, sucrine du berry squash, passionfruit, bouquet garni and dried walnuts.
- To line your pantry’s, we’ve got all smoothies, juices and pipsticks from Pip available again, as well as some strawberry jam from Hembridge and mixed boxes of kombuchas from Loving Foods.
Nowt much to be signing off with really this week but amongst all the usual veg slinging next week, we’ve another trip to Defra, Cathryn’s on her travels to London and Glasgow to work alongside the Soil Association for a couple of days, we’ve a film crew up to do some interviewing on Weds morn and the evening before, I’m to be at The House Of Lords at some veg sector thingy on the back of a random invitation from a lass called Baroness Fookes. It’s been a mad ride this last year or so but in the face of allsorts, onward we go! : )
Have a top week,
Sean, Mads, Alph, Ell and Team ON x
Shift Happens 🍻
Looking for some no and low options as we start heading into the festive season? 🎄
Stroud Brewery have got you covered with their ultra-low pale ale, Shift Happens. It took a bit of experimentation to get here, but they were determined to prove that low alcohol doesn’t have to mean low flavour!
Light and refreshing, with notes of honey, citrus and stone fruits, it’s a lovely one to have to hand. Plus, it’s both vegan and gluten-free. 🙌🏼