Newfields are back 🥬🥳

We’re very glad to see the start of the Newfields season. Rachel and John are back with some lovely greens, and we couldn’t be happier.

This week you can bag yourself some green kale, spinach, rainbow chard and Pak choi 💚

Welcome to the future, Organic Northerners?

As I basked in the local’s garden sunshine with a G&T yesterday evening (don’t…this was after 13hrs at the coal face), my mind couldn’t help but wonder back to the prospect of these Mediterranean spring/summers becoming the norm. Sure, everyone’s got a smile on their grid, our market gardeners are reporting that crops are fattening up ahead of time and as a result of this early start, for the 2nd year running, our traditional hungry gap hasn’t been so noticeable.

But on the flip side, the local ressers are already on their arse, a good number of our growers only have minimal irrigation on their farms/lack their own bore holes and delicate leaves are gonna be scorched if this weather persists. It’s a frightening prospect, especially given our lack of national food sovereignty and whilst living through an age of significant political upheaval.

A vote in any box has never been enough to see the changes we wanna see. The responsibility falls squarely on all of us lot as citizens, business owners and community leaders to try and slow these climactic changes down. As a company, we want to be a conduit to increasing the production and uptake of organic, ecologically grown food nationally. We want to demonstrate to the powers that be that our sector is more than a disorganised group of dreamy yogurt-knitters and that another way, a healthier way all round, is possible. Thank you all for loyally supporting our mission and enfranchising us to do what we’re trying to do.

Veg updates: 

• Starting in the UK, as mentioned above, Newfields are back – woop woop! They’re starting with some rainbow chard, green kale, pak Choi and spinach.

• Elsewhere, Terry Simpson has some Casablanca spuds, baby leaf spinach both bagged and loose, spring onions, coriander and curly parsley.

• From our market gardens this week, for our Wednesdays customers we have some green stem garlic from Moss Valley, as well as some green batavia, red butterhead and green oakleaf lettuces.

• On the UK fruit front, Mole End has added some Gala apples and we still have plenty of the fiesta apples from Oakwood to go at too.

• From Portugal, Vasco has added some broad beans to their offering.

• From Spain, Biovergel has some green peppers, red peppers and yellow peppers, Ecosur some galia melons and mini watermelons. Terra rica has some celery and Gospa some Valencia oranges.

• From Holland, Zann has some yellow chillis, honeydrop tomatoes, bianchetti lemons and canary melons.

• Our top picks from Dynamis this week are the yellow beans, black zebra tomatoes, corne des Andes tomatoes, mixed heirloom tomatoes, white vittoria grapes, white peaches and the bouquet garni.

• On the dairy front, we’re very pleased to let you know that Acorn’s butter is back on the list this week but there is only a limited amount so we will share this out as fairly as possible. We also have some cow and sheep milk halloumi, ricotta and ricotta salata from High Weald.

• Lastly, before we sign off… We’re running a half price offer on a few short dated cans of the Pip sparkling apple juice (only 43p per can – bargain). Lovely refreshment for hot weeks like this. We’ve also just had a brand new flavour arrive too… sparkling apple & cherry.

Anyone fancy the pub?

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

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