If you’re free and find yourself near York this Saturday 1st August, pop by our wonderful customer, Brunswick Organic Nursery, for their 2026 Food Festival 🥳

Brunswick’s mission is to help people with learning disabilities enrich their lives through meaningful work, building relationships and creating community. The festival is packed with fun, including cookery classes, live music and even a little bit of birdhouse making. We’ll be there to represent the Organic North gang too, so come and say hello!

Hey folks,

You’ll be relieved to know that it’s just a short scribble from me this afty for us all being a bit too busy for folk on their summer jollies. This time is the slowest time for us in terms of the amount of veg we shift but it’s time for housekeeping and holidays and both serve to keep us plenty busy throughout the summer.

After mentioning some local fires we’ve had up here last week and then seeing the subsequent stories coming out of Bordeaux and west of Madrid, I’m reluctant to mention the weather this week! The steamy temps though are affecting our domestic broccoli supply so we’ve only a few boxes to go at this week. Hotter temps still on the continent mean that it’s in shorter supply there too and as a result, very expensive. Our Maddy who’s been chatting with growers about this this morning assures me at least that we’ve still plenty of tenderstem to go at, alongside plenty of cabbages and caulis too.

And now for the veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, Newfields has some bunched carrots, bunched onions, green kohl rabi with tops and red kohl rabi with tops and some Charlotte potatoes.

• Next up, Lynher has some cavolo Nero and red kale, Roddy’s some spinach and Bedlam some yellow patty pan squash.

• Elsewhere, Strawberry Fields have added some 10kg nets of chioggia and golden beets to their listing as well as some bagged basil and Farrington’sreturns with some alouette and valor spuds.

• In good news, Awen Organics have dropped the price of their Charlotte spuds so these are now £14.72 for 10kg.

• From our market gardens, Trinity has some mixed salad leaves and AG Harvest has added some tri-colour french beans as well as some Aronia berries – also known as chokeberries these are bitter berries great for making wine, jam, syrups and juices.

• And for our Wednesday customers, Growing Well has blauhilde french beans, cobra french beans and some mixed leaf salad.

• On the UK fruit front, we have heron plums and swan plums from Carey, oullins goldengages from Oakwood and dark plums from Pardoe.

• From Portugal, Vasco has added some radish with leaf, blackberries in punnets, strawberries in punnets and 1kg loose blueberries.

• From Spain, Bioalgarrobo has mangoes again, Biovergel some redrojo lemons and fortuna plums.

• From Holland, Zann has some black Attica grapes, mixed colour cherry honey drop tomatoes and Granny Smith apples.

• From France, Bio & Bio have some white peaches and our top picks from Dynamis are the blood red peaches, white nectarines, danlas grapes, lival grapes, indigo tomatoes and cherry Roma tomatoes.

• To line your pantry’s, we’ve got some more juices coming in from Cal Vall as well as some olives and biodynamic olive oil.

• Lastly, Da Mhile has come out with a new seasonal peach vodka. It’s smooth with a bright, natural peach profile, versatile enough for cocktails yet flavourful enough to enjoy on its own 🍑

Signing off tday with a link to a scheduled get together in my local town of Macclesfield aimed at women working with nature. I’m pals with the organiser who’s one of the most impressive people I know in veg so if you’re in the locality and fancy a natter, be sure to give it a look.

Women Working with Nature Meet (Macclesfield) | Doodle

We hope you have a wonderful week,

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

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