Some snaps from Sean’s trip to the Big Smoke for the annual Soil Association Trade Conference at the Barbican. He also popped in to see our pals at 13 Acres at their ace stall in Borough Market! 🤩

Hello Organic Northerners,

Hope your week’s off to a good start! It’s a bit of a dull and drizzly one here in Manchester today, but we’re powering through and ready to take on your orders. 💪🏼

Not too much news to share this week – apart from Sean’s trip to London for the annual Soil Association Trade Conference. He came back with great news that the organic market is healthy and growing faster than non-organic, which is always encouraging to hear!

While down in the Big Smoke, Sean managed to fit in a good few gallery visits before stopping by our pals at 13 Acres in Borough Market. And I’m sure you’ll agree, their stall looks so amazingly well put together! He met the lovely Shuk (who our ONHQ team can’t speak highly enough of), she treated him to some organic apple juice from their orchard and a jar of plum & cinnamon jam. And then over on the other side of the market, he met with her brother Mike, who also treated him to a tasty bowl of laksa.

A proper jammy Christmas

Hembridge have brought their Christmas jams back for another year – and they’re just as delicious as ever. Their gift packs include a little bit of everything you could want over the festive season: Love, Peace and Joy.

• Love – Christmas Pudding Marmalade
• Peace – Autumn Chutney
• Joy – Plum & Cognac Jam

New ACV on the Block

We’re adding a new apple cider vinegar to the list this week from the folks at Radford. Their vinegar is fermented in small batches for two years to reach peak flavour and the perfect balance of acidity.

Plus, they use all the lovely weird and wonky apples that can’t be sold fresh to reduce waste. And because it’s raw, unfiltered, and unpasteurised, it’s bursting with beneficial probiotic bacteria!

Last Week of The Tomato Stall 🙁

It’s always a sad time of year when The Tomato Stall season comes to an end – and, unfortunately, this is the last week to get your hands on their delicious toms! So if you fancy one last taste of the Arreton Valley, make sure to pop some on your orders while you can.

Now onto the fruit and veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, Royal Oak has added some varieties of loose kale, as well as romanesco caulis, dirty parsnips and swede. Mahollam  returns to the list with some Cara spuds and swedes and we have some cauliflowers and celeriac from New Farm too.

• Elsewhere, Roddy’s also has some cauliflowers as well as sprout tops and sprout stalks while Bedlam adds some kalette and kalette tops, Flourish adds some Japanese turnips and we have lions mane and mixed oysters available from Dart Valley.

• On the UK fruit front, Oakwood adds some Cornish gilliflower apples and meridian apples and Mole End have some Aria apples for us to go at.

• From France, we have a full offering again from Uni-Vert including butternut squash, rainbow chard, fennel, a variety of lettuce, flat parsley, bunched red radish, inored apples, golden apples, finger limes, kaffir limes and yuzu.

• From Spain, Bioalgarrobo adds some flat beans, mini plum tomatoes and hass avocados, Biovergel has some mandarins for us to go at and Campo has some broccoli and clementines.

• From Portugal, Vasco adds some pointed cabbages, Portuguese cabbages, padron pepper, cherry vine tomatoes and lovage.

• From Holland, Zann has some Jerusalem artichokes, chicory, green and red chillis, Pak Choi, spinoso clems and cranberries.

• From Dynamis our top picks this week are jugala apples, opal apples, bergamots, sensation mangoes, savory and curly parsley.

• And lastly to line your pantry’s, we have lots of different coffees available from Source Climate Coffee and also some Monterey Jack cheese from Pextenement.

Speak to you all again soon,

Ell, Cathryn, Mads, Alphin and the ON team x

Many of you have already spotted the new offering we’ve got in from Cal Vall. We’ve been wanting to stock their dry goods for a while and are so glad we finally have – and it’s been brilliant to see how much you’re enjoying them already!

If you haven’t had a browse yet, we’ve got mayo, aioli, lots of new juices (including blueberry & white grape), pasta sauces, gazpacho, and plenty of olives too.

And if there’s something on their website that you don’t see on our list, just let us know – we’re always happy to add more of your favourites.

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