A couple of snaps of Awen Organics produce that came in this week – they’ve hit the ground running with you lot, and we’re hoping this is the start of a long and fruitful partnership!

Above, from left to right: radicchio, red Florence onions, peppermint chard and chioggia beetroot.

Good afternoon Organic Northerners,

Hope you’re all having a splendid start to the week! Not too much to cover from our end today – just a few new suppliers and some other little updates. Sean’s tied up in meetings, so you’ve got me holding the fort once again.

Awen Organics

First off, as mentioned above what a brilliant start we’ve had with Awen Organics this week! You’ve been absolutely loving their produce, and it arrived looking fantastic. If you didn’t get a chance to order from them last week, we’d definitely recommend giving them a try.

Next up, we’ve added one new fruit and veg supplier and two new dry goods suppliers to the list this week – namely Bio&Bio, Cocofina, and Sozye.

Bio & Bio

Bio & Bio are a cooperative of growers based in the south of France and Spain, well known for their top-quality produce – especially their figs and stone fruit. Some standouts from their range this week include bananas, Thai basil, Bourjassotte figs, lemon thyme, and Franquette walnuts. Make sure to check out their full list!

Cocofina & Sozye

We met Jacob, the founder of Cocofina, at the trade show we attended in London – one of the loveliest guys we met and we’ve been keen to list his stuff ever since. Jacob started Cocofina back in 2004 and we’ve added just a few of the staples from his award-winning range including coconut water, coconut milk, and light coconut milk!

Jacob also founded Sozye, born from his want to create kinder, healthier alternatives to sauces without compromising on taste. When he struggled to find any decent options, he began experimenting with a unique Scottish seaweed that reminded him of fermented soy – and after hundreds of kitchen trials, he perfected the world’s first British-made soya sauce alternative.

Coming Soon

We’ll also be sending out some miso and shoyu samples from Slow Sauces this week – with plans to list them next week, so keep an eye out for those in your orders!

And finally, we’re looking to expand our range from Cal Valls – including blueberry and cranberry juices, extra virgin olive oil, tomato sauces, and more. We’ll keep you posted as these make their way onto the list over the coming weeks.

CHRISTMAS CAKES PREORDER

Before I get onto the fruit and veg updates, I know Halloween isn’t quite behind us yet, but if you’d like to order any Christmas treats from the Authentic Bread Company, please make sure to get your order in by tomorrow midday for December delivery.

This is the only week we’ll have them on the list, so the bakery can plan their baking schedule. There’s plenty to choose from – Christmas cakes, puddings, mince pies, and jars of mincemeat – so fill yer stockings!

Fruit & veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, Royal Oak has some white satin carrots, Yellowstone carrots, dark Vader cauliflowers, white kohl rabi and striped butternut squash. Newfields has purple haze broccoli and loads of spuds including manitou, Maris peer and sunset while Pollybell has some washed celeriac, and leeks in both 5kg and 10kg.

• Elsewhere, Roddy’s has mixed salad bags, Bedlam has mini Turks turban squash, Fosketts has celeriac, celeriac with tops and fennel, and Awen add some Tatsoi to their offering.

• Staying in the UK, Flourish has some purple spider kale and sweet dumpling squash while Middle Ground adds some fennel flowers and rosemary and Strawberry Fields has some spring greens.

• From the market gardens, Trinity has some mixed salad leaves, bramley apples, russet apples and loadsa squash including sweet potato acorn squash, blue banana squash, green Hokkaido squash, Hungarian blue squash and uchi kuri squash and Moss Valley adds some bagged coriander and dill.

• On the UK fruit front, Augernik adds more apples to his offering including chivers delight, red pippin and Saturn, Windmill add elstar apples and Concorde pears, Carey add falstaff apples and Pardoe has red pippin apples.

• From Spain, Bioalgarrobo has loose cherry tomatoes, cherry vine tomatoes and some keitt mangoes, Biovergel has garlic, ruby grapefruits, large primasole mandarins and navelina oranges.

• Elsewhere in Spain, Camposeven has some celery and fino lemons for us to go at while Ecosur adds aubergines, flat beans, yellow peppers and cherry plum tomatoes.

• From Holland, Zann adds some romanesco cauliflowers, green chillis, orogros celementines, kaki fruits, navelina oranges and quince.

• From Dynamis our top picks this week the smoke garlic braids, chayote, sucrine du berry pumpkins, pineapple yellow tomatoes, sensation mangoes, chestnuts, walnuts and hazelnuts.

• On the dairy front, we have some limited butter from Acorn Dairy, and some more bits from High Weald including Duddleswell, Tremains, Ricotta and little Sussex.

• And lastly to line your pantry’s, we’ve some new and tasty things from Carleys such as macadamia nut butter, raw choc amazing almond spread and some Smokey chilli peanut butter. YUM! We can’t wait to get our hands on the latter. NEMI also has some Hojicha tea available, a roasted Japanese green tea with a nutty, smoky aroma.

Before I sign off, next week Sean will be sharing some information (and some copy for you to use) asking everyone to email their local MPs, encouraging them to attend an event we’re co-hosting at Westminster in November.

In a nutshell, we’ve teamed up with a number of key players in our sector to push the government for greater support for small-scale organic and agroecological growers. More details to follow!

Speak to you all again soon,
Ell, Sean, Cathryn, Mads, Alphin and the ON team x

Carley’s are spicing up the spread game! 🫙🌶️

First up, meet their Smokey Chilli Peanut Butter – freshly roasted organic peanuts with cayenne, paprika, and a pinch of sea salt. Perfect on avo toast… but we think it’d make a pretty banging peanut dip.

Next is the sweet, creamy, and rich Macadamia Nut Butter! Made from 100% raw macadamias, it’s a luxurious, nutrient-packed treat. Spread it, spoon it, or sneak it straight from the jar (we won’t tell).

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