–

Plenty to get your tastebuds tingling this week!

Things are really flourishing over at Flourish right now! You’ll can spot some of our staple greenery in the photo above (clockwise): Seaweed Kale, Felicity Cabbage, Green Curly Kale, White Koral Kale, Midnight Sun Kale, Caraflex Cabbage, and of course Cavolo Nero. A proper late summer brassica line up.

Alongside some lovely photos straight from the fields, we’ve got a few exciting additions to the list: Chinese Sprouting Cauliflower, Sweet Mixed Peppers and Walla Walla Onions.

And for a little inspo, here’s a tasty recipe to try with the sprouting cauliflower: Sprouting Cauliflower with Anchovy Brown Butter & Lemon

–

Good afternoon everyone,

Fields Good:

I’m fresh back from a trip over to the Fields Good Festival over on the Glanarm Estate in Northern Ireland and feeling very inspired by the burgeoning organic and ‘regen’ scene over there. I actually spent a week’s holiday over there and amore friendly and politically switched-on population I’ve never had the privilege to be amongst.

To witness the will for this level of care being applied to their agriculture more was very encouraging to see and keynote speaker, James Rebanks (an upland sheep farmer based in The Lakes) spoke very well about the specific ways our growers can improve their land management techniques to make their farms more ecologically friendly and profitable at the same time. Here’s a link to their Insta so you can get a feel for the event.

Fields Good | Farming Festival (@fieldsgood_ni) • Instagram photos and videos

My Green Pod:

In other news, on the back of the recent BOOM Award from the Soil Association, there’s been an article put out about our work today in My Green Pod – apparently the world’s biggest ethical lifestyle magazine no less! Our Ell’s put a link to the mag at the bottom of this newsletter and if we receive any hard copies, we’ll be sure to distribute these out too. I’m scheduled to feature on their live podcast too and I’ll forward a link to the recording of it when it comes through.

Weekly produce updates:

• Starting in the UK, Royal Oak has choggia beets, white beets, broccoli, green, purple and white caulis and also some mizuna and sweetcorn. Newfields has loose golden beets, large purple caulis and some celery. Brickyard has added some broccoli and Pollybell has both cauliflower and cavolo Nero.
• Elsewhere, New Farm adds cauliflowers, Lynher adds runner beans, cavolo Nero and collard greens and Strawberry Fields has got you covered with curly green kale, cavolo Nero and delicata squash.
• Photo’d at the top, Flourish has Chinese sprouting cauliflower (crunchy and tender with long stems, known for it’s sweeter, nuttier flavour), walla walla onions (large, sweet and crunchy, known for their high sugar content that makes ‘em delicious both raw and cooked) and sweet mixed peppers.
• Home Farm Organics and St Helens are back on the list with spinach both loose and bagged, salad leaves, salad onions, squash and some spuddies.
• Our squash game right now is like no other, Bedlam has a load of new ones this week so make sure to have a good look through the list. Some top ones include bon bon, crunchkin and wee be little.
• From the market gardens, Kindling has added frisée endive in both loose and bagged, Growing Well has some rainbow chard and Middle Ground has fennel, spring onions and flowers.
• On the UK apple front, Windmill has loads of varieties for us to be going at including Charles Ross, egremont russet and ribston pippins while Mole End adds some Julia apples and Carey has added some Red Devil and rubinola.
• From Europe, Vasco has some white and red grapes, Bioalgarrobo has some bacon avocados and Biovergel has parsnips, limes and quince.
• Elsewhere in Europe, Zann has Brussels sprouts, Chinese cabbage, pak Choi and star ruby grapefruits and Ecosur has short cucumbers, and cherry vine tomatoes.
• From Dynamis our top picks are coco paimpol beans, chilli hot mix, cherimoya, red and yellow dragon fruit, satsuma mandarins, oregano, savory and chestnuts.
• On the dairy front, we’ve got some delicious Gouda with cumin in a variety of weights from Botton Dairy and some unsalted butter from Netherend.
• And lastly to line your pantry’s we’ve got lots of new stuff on the list from The Garlic Farm including a variety of garlic pastes, garlic hoisin sauce, garlic sea salt and garlic soy sauce.. Yum, yum, yum! We’ve also got loadsa coffee available again from Source Climate Change so fill up and get your caffeine fix.

I’ll leave you this week with a link to a Farrington’s Farm – Organic North Wholesalers who our Ajay was lucky enough to go and visit a few weeks ago. There are two vids to watch detailing some of Farrington’s history and how the farm runs under the stewardship of the owner and farm manager on some of the Duchy of Cornwall’s land.

Hope you enjoy the links and speak to you all again soon,
Sean, Mads, Cathryn, Ell and the ON team x

Extra, Extra! Read All About It!

As Sean mentioned above, this month for Organic September we’re delighted to be featured in the world’s biggest ethical lifestyle magazine – My Green Pod!

Here’s a little snapshot of our feature, which sums up what we do rather nicely. If you’d like to dive into the full September issue, you can check it out here: MyGreenPod September Issue

If you have any problems, please ensure you are logged in and click this button again.