The Cal Valls juices have been a hit since we first got them in, so a few weeks back we brought in a few more varieties.🧃

We couldn’t believe how orange the carrot juice was when we lifted it out of the box – practically glowing. Alongside that we also have tomato juice for those who like something a bit more savoury, red grape juice and what seems to be the firm favourite so far, the clementine juice. 🍊

All of Cal Valls juices are freshly pressed from 100% organic, biodynamic fruit and veg, so you know you’re getting the good stuff. Plus, if you head on over to their website and see anything you think you’d want us to list then please let us know. 🤩

Good afternoon everyone,

It’s Tuesday, it’s newsletter day, so here goes : )

The National Lottery Climate Action Fund. Have you heard about this? I’m currently having about three meetings a week about it as NGOs, local food partnerships, councils etc look to see how we could possibly partner with them about applications for funding. Here’s a link if you’re interested…there’s lots of wonga (*working-class tax, shakes fist)swashing about if you’ve an idea deemed worthy of backing.

Climate Action Fund – Food Systems | The National Lottery Community Fund

In other news, I’m away to a Sheffield Primary School next week to explore whether we can provide the produce for them. What our kids are fed in schools has been laughable for generations and we’re looking to establish self-sustaining, unsubsidised examples of how it can be done better. We’re already working with some local schools in Bury but if any of you guys know of any forward-thinking schools/heads/local authorities then be sure to pass on our details…though we’ve not had much capacity to throw any real time into this yet, we’re as keen about this project as anything we’ve done.

Lastly, it never rains but it pours eh. In Southern Europe, that’s been the case for quite some time now and starting toeffect supply and prices on some Spanish lines particularly.

The terrible goings on in the Middle East also have the potential to inflate prices. Like most industries, farming and the related processes that revolve around the production of our food, relies on the use of a lot of oil and though our organic farmers may often be less reliant, crises like these can have big knock-on effects. We seen this when Russia first invaded Ukraine four years ago. Gas supplies dwindled across Europeas a result and the cost of the production of fertiliser went up dramatically. Organic farmers of course don’t use syntheticfertilisers, but it became so expensive that the manure that many rely on become increasingly commercialised, as did the cost of cardboard packaging too.

On that cheery note, here’s this week’s veg updates from our Ell…

This week’s veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, Newfields have some savoy cabbages and green kale for us to go at and making a return to the to the list this week is Kensons with some 10kg dirty parsnips.

• Elsewhere, on the spud front we’ve some Hibas again as well as some carolus from Farrington’s and Chapel respectively.

• For our Wednesday customers, we’ve some Siberian kale on from the guys at Growing Well. This variety is sweet, mild and more tender than its other kale counterparts. There’s also some spinach and rainbow chard available from these guys too.

• Lastly from the UK market gardens, we’ve some Russian red kale, mixed salad and springoes from Trinity, as well as the first mixed salad leaves from Kindling.

• From Portugal, Vasco has some rainbow chard, cress and New Zealand spinach for us.

• From Italy, we’ve some oregano available from JWE, as well as some Valencia oranges and Ciaculli mandarins from Geima. The Ciaculli mandarins are known for being exceptionally sweet and aromatic with high sugar and juice content, we can’t wait to get our hands on them to try!

• From Spain, we have some blueberries in punnets from Bioandalusi as well as some green beans from Bioalgarrobo.

• From Holland, Zann has some flat beans, washed carrots, Braeburn apples and verna lemons.

• From France, we have some more mixed berries on from Solagora, some rocket and grapefruits from Uni-Vert and then our top picks from Dynamis are chives, agretti roscano, jazz apples and purple turnips.

• And to line your pantry’s, there’s some hot cross buns coming in from Paul’s Bakery next week, as well as cashew nuts and lots of coffee from Equal Exchange, juice from Ekolo including apple & mango and blueberry and last but not least we’ve some more pasta varieties available from Pastificio.

It’s meetings galore today so I better dash and it’ll be Cathryn and maybe Mads processing all of your orders today in my absence.

Amongst all the gloom and after months of grey, it’s been lovely to feel the glow of spring this past week at least, eh!

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

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