Online Ordering for 7th September – 11th September (Week 36)
Organic September 🥒👩🌾
Today marks the start of Organic September with the Soil Association.
The theme for 2026 is ‘Organic: A Shortcut to Better’ – a message to consumers that looking out for the organic certification logo is an easy way to cut through the noise of all the other claims around farming, food and sustainability.
With the tagline ‘Cut through the crop. Choose organic.’, this year’s campaign is all about making small, positive changes to your weekly shop, rather than feeling like you need to overhaul the whole thing.
And, as you can see above, they’ve taken over The Manchester Screen for the day, on the side of Victoria Warehouse (M17 1AB)!
So, if you’re driving past, have a little gander..
Good afternoon everyone,
After last week’s mega long newsletter, I’m letting you get away with a short scribble this week.
Firstly though, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we’ve started putting together new product info for every line. If you scroll down to Haslum on the list and take a look, you’ll see what I mean by the small ‘i’ symbol on each line. If you click that, an info/photo box will pop out and enlighten you about that particular line.
Before we fill all the relevant info in, we research online and with the growers about every line and with over 9000 individual lines listed since we launched our order software 7 years ago, this is an incredibly laborious task. We’ll keep plugging away at it though in the background and add new ones each week. If you’re able to have a read of what we’ve done so far and let us know if you like them or not, that would be grand : )
On Haslum’s listing now, you’ll also see a video cam icon on the title line of the grower. We recently filmed an interview at the farm during a visit for the day. Hope you like it and here’s a link to it too…
Weekly veg updates:
- Starting in the UK, Royal Oak has cabbice cabbage, Chinese cabbage, cavolo Nero and a variety of lettuce. Newfields has savoy cabbage, white cabbage, green kale, red kale and leeks.
- Elsewhere, Pollybell has some PSB and Chapel has bags of red beets, red cabbage and savoy cabbage.
- Next up, Lynher has added some collard greens while Bedlam also has some PSB, black cat squash, Bon Bon squash and mini red turban squash.
- Fosketts start with their butternut squash in small, medium and large sizes and Strawberry Fields has red beetroot, fennel and cos lettuce again.
- Hael is back on this week with romana courgettes, delicata squash, baby carrots, cucumbers, baby fennel, kale, tomatoes and mixed leaf salad.
- From our market gardens, AG Harvest returns this week with mixed leaf salads, cruises de poulet shallots, perpetual spinach and bramley apples and Trinity some helda beans, lemon drop chillies, mixed chillies and yellow plums.
- And for our Wednesday customers, we have rainbow chard, short cucumbers and green kale from Growing Well, golden beets with tops, kale and little gem from Moss Valley and both normal and rainbow chard from Sheffield Organic Growers.
- On the UK fruit front, Oakwood has some epicure apples and Marjorie seedling plums, Carey some scrumptious apples, golden drop plums and greengages and Mole End some Julia and Windsor apples.
- From Portugal, Vasco has some raspberries in punnets.
- From Holland, Zann has pointed cabbages green peppers and conference pears.
- From France, Uni-Vert has pomegranates and Bio & Bio some purple garlic and aubergines.
- Our top picks from Dynamis this week are pink roscoff onions, blue meat radish, white daikon radish, mixed colour cherry tomatoes, prickly pears, savory and black garlic.
- To line your pantry’s, all your favourite dry goods suppliers are back after a week break including Castagno Pasta, Coato honey, Classico and Bras del Port.
- Lastly I want to let you know that we have reduced the price of our orange Lemonaid bottles due to a short date of 23rd Sept. We know a lot of you have really been enjoying these so here’s your chance to get them at just 60p a bottle!
In case you missed it last week, here’s a link to the BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme we were featured in last Friday. It’s about the work we’re doing with the local authority in Bury to supply their schools- hope you like it : )
The Food Programme – A Day in the Life of a School Catering Manager – BBC Sounds
Have a top week,
Sean, Mads, Alph, Ell, Cathyrn and Team ON x
Both Hael and A G Harvest are back on the list this week 😊 as well as the stuff photo’d above they’ve got some new bits on too!
New from Hael, we’ve got delicata squash, romana courgettes and baby carrots.
And A G Harvest has Cuisse de Poulet shallots – a type of banana shallot with a shape that’s said to resemble a chicken drumstick, plus some lovely Bramley apples.