Another exciting addition to our ever growing list of amazing UK growers

 Wild Country Organics

This week we’ll have short cucumbers and both regular aubs and graffiti aubs that have been organically grown in unheated greenhouses down in Abington, Cambridgeshire.

Good afternoon Organic Northerners,

It looks like we’re in for another few scorching days from tomorrow onwards, so I hope you all manage to stay cool.

Sean is away in Bristol this week with Farming the Future, where they’ll be planning for the year ahead. I’m sure he’ll have plenty to tell you about that in next week’s ramblings. In the meantime, you’ve got me (Ell) back on newsletter duty.

Groundswell Festival 2026

Last week, Sean was down in Hertfordshire at Groundswell Festival, and by all accounts he had a jolly good time. I’ve included a few snaps at the bottom, and if you’d like to see some videos from the event, you can find them over on our Instagram.

Day one sounds equal parts informative and sociable. Sean spent the day learning about pulses, crop rotations and the future of organic egg production before rounding things off with a few pints alongside some pals from the Organic Research Centreand the Soil Association, who also happened to be celebrating their 80 years at the festival.

Day two was Sean’s turn to shine, taking part in a couple of panel discussions. The first focused on the state schools we’ve recently started supplying in Bury. The second one sounds interesting to say the least: the panel’s job was to pretend they’d travelled to the year 2036 and report back on what the future looked like and how we’d got there. One of his fellow panellists was none other than Helen Browning, CEO of the Soil Association – organic royalty!

Thankfully, both talks seemed to go down well. Sean did admit to announcing to the tent that one thing he did notice from 2036 was an extra bank holiday celebrating the demise of Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for… would have liked to have seen how that one went down.

The last evening was spent setting the world to rights with old friends and new around a fire and the chat was lubricated by the wonderful cider makers, Find & Foster Cider and Ripe Cider, I’m sure you’ll spot a few of their bottles from the photos below.

New Supplier – Wild Country Organics

We’re really excited to be welcoming a new supplier this week: Wild Country Organics.

We’ve been interested in working with grower Adrian Izzard for more or less 20 years, so we were delighted when he got in touch to ask if we’d like to list some of his veggies.

Based in Abington, Cambridgeshire, Wild Country Organics grows a diverse range of seasonal vegetables and has been certified organic by the Soil Association since 1998, when Adrian converted the family farm to organic production.

To begin with, we’ll be listing a small selection of short cucumbers, regular aubergines and graffiti aubergines, all grown in unheated greenhouses.

Authentic Bread Christmas Orders

And now for the part where I apologise for mentioning the C-word quite so early…

As is tradition, we need to get your pre-orders in for Authentic Bread’s Christmas goodies. These will be live on the system for the next few weeks, so if the thought of ordering Christmas cakes and mince pies while we’re basking in 30°C heat is a bit too much to process, you’ve got a little time to come round to the idea!

These will be ready for delivery from early October.

Veg updates:

• Starting in the UK, Newfields has bunched golden beets, fennel with tops, red kale and Maris bard spuds. Caerfai Farm has some orla potatoes and Bedlam some firebird chard and fennel.

• Next up, Haslum has a very limited number of courgettes again and Awenhas quite a few adds this week including fresh shallots, devil’s ear lettuce, kale and a variety of chard.

• Staying in the UK, Flourish has some dragon suyo cucumbers, brandywine heirloom tomatoes and vesuvious heirloom tomatoes and A G Harvest some bagged mixed leaf salad.

• From our market gardens, Middle Ground are back on the list this week with some bunched beets, mixed courgettes, charlotte spuds, spring onions and a variety of herbs.

• And for our Wednesday customers, Regather Farm has some flat french beans and Moss Valley some Thai basil, chioggia with tops, cavolo Nero, kale and flat parsley.

• On the UK fruit front, the cherries and gooseberries that came in from Carey’sand Augernik this week were looking fab. Next week you can get your hands on Herman plums from both farms.

• From Spain, Biovergel has canary melons, cantaloupe melons and piel de sapo melons, Bioandalusi some small barberina oranges and Haciendas some flat white nectarines, seedless red grapes and yellow plums.

• From Holland, Fairtrasa has mangoes again this week. They’ve been off for a few weeks but are back with improved quality. And Zann has fresh garlic, coeur de boeuf tomatoes, verdelli lemons and ercolini pears.

• From France, we have black krim toms, coeur de beouf toms and yellow from Uni-Vert and our top picks from Dynamis are green jalapeños, mixed colour cherry tomatoes, corne des Andes tomatoes, heirloom blue tomatoes, swirled apricots, fries de tarascon figs and white nectarines.

• To line your pantry’s, we have stocked back up on the Cal Valls juice you all know and love.

Just before we sign off this week, High Weald have been in touch today to let us know that their plain Duddleswell cheese has just won Gold in the Virtual Cheese Awards – very well done guys and as always well deserved! If you’ve not tried any of High Weald’s stuff yet defintley give it a whirl.👏🏼

That’s all from us this week,

Ell, Mads, Alph, Cathryn and Team ON x

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