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Yet another new grower springing on to our list this week!

We’re buzzing to bring you salad onions straight from Mora Farm, a small-but-mighty 11-acre organic market garden tucked away in a Cornish valley by the River Fowey.

This lovely off-grid farm is run by Oli Baker, a mate of our old Tom, and alongside a cracking crew of staff, they grow their grow veg in a biodiversity-boosting way that’s good for the soil, the planet, and everything in between. Can’t ask for much more than that, can we?

We’re known to love a good springo at ONHQ so we’re looking forward to sampling some of these wares ourselves. Oli even plans delivering the first batch himself – then sticking around for a pint or two in Manchester. What a ledge!

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Good afternoon again you wonderful lot,

We sent our bestie, Jose off in good fashion last Friday night and it was brill to see such a great turn out for her leaving drinks. Thankfully, she’s gonna be regularly collecting orders for her new business from us in Manchester so we’ll get to see her big smiley face on the regular. Big love to you, Jose! x

We’ve ANOTHER BANK HOL to navigate through this weekend as well as some bank hols over in Spain to factor in too so accordingly, some of the order cut-offs have been brought forward in a bid to avoid any supply issues. The effects of Portugal and Spain not having any electricity for a while we’re also still fretting about but we’ll just have to try and roll with any of those punches as and when they come.

As per a couple of weeks ago, if you usually have your pallets delivered on a Tuesday, they will instead be delivered on Weds next week. This is unless you opt for the more expensive chilled haulage. If you prefer a chilled delivery on a Tuesday then please either specify this alongside your order or get in touch soon as poss.

A few of the order cut-offs for this week are as follows:

• Camposeven & Ecsosur – Wednesday 7am
• Bioalgarobbo – Wednesday 10am
• Biovergel & Bioandalusi – Wednesday 12pm
• Fairtrasa – Wednesday 2pm
• Zann – Wednesday 3pm
• New Farm – Wednesday 4pm

The Bank hol aside, there’s loadsa interesting veg goss to get your teeth into this week so in my usual slapdash style, in no apparent order…

• We’ve two new suppliers to introduce this week. The first being Mora Farm (Cornwall) who we were put in touch with us just a couple of days ago by our good pal and former colleague, Tom (‘Shit Tom’ if you want his full monicker. We know a lot of Tom’s and this particular Tom just happened to start working with us shortly after a really, really great Tom so as shorthand to decipher between the two, this tom got Shit Tom…we love him really promise but also love picking on him too). Over a couple of quick phone calls, we’ve providing a home for a healthy number of fabulous tunnel-grown onions (pictured above) that would have otherwise had to have been turned over into the ground. We’re chuffed to make this new connection and hope that it’s the start of yet another beautiful relationship with a grower we’ve not previously worked with.
  

• Next up on the new supplier front is the return of Botton Village and access for the first time to their range of award-winning, fabulous tasting selection of cheeses. We’re thrilled to be back working with these lot and are huge admirers of the work they’ve long been doing up in North Yorkshire. For almost a decade we’ve supplied the many individuals with learning difficulties who they support, and it’s been our honour to from the off. Seriously, get on these cheeses, they’re all top!

• Elsewhere, Home Farm return with their first Yorkshire spinach of the year this week but transport this week is too tricky for JW Produce so these guys are off for a week. This will also be the last week for Chapel carrots so load up for the last of the best quality carrots before we go out with our begging bowls to anyone who might help us extend the UK season before the first bunched carrots from Foskett’s show.

• Healthy oils have also dropped the price of their beans this week and Morgiel’s list is somewhat thinner than it usually would be because they’re having major probs with their van. Hoping all be back to normal next week though.

• Last up before the full veg update, here’s a link to a video that we made last week whilst visiting our supplier Side Oven Bakery in Driffield. It was great getting to know these guys better and see first hand the real love that goes into the fantastic range of granolas, muselis and fruit loaves that they produce.
  
  https://www.organicnorth.co.uk/side-oven/

The rest of the veg news…

• Macleod’s return to the list this week with our first rhubarb of the year – chuffed to see this back on. Cheryl at Royal Oak was telling me recently during a visit to her farm that the crowns for rhubarb had become a lot more expensive than they used to be so a lot of folk have ceased growing it. Really pleased that Macleod’s up in beautiful Inverness have been able to help fill our gap on this.

• Alongside their super-tasty new Jersey taters, Master Farms have also added some Jersey-grown cauliflower this week. Rare we get access to these but expecting them to be looking good. Tresemple return with some caulis too this week.

• Sticking on spuds for a sec, SKEA have 3 ‘new’ varieties of old season spuds this week. Namely, maris peer, record and sunset.

• Elsewhere Strawberry Fields have added Batavia, oakleaf and little gem lettuces, Simpson has some coriander and Bedlam Farm start with their rhubarb too this week.

• Kindling are off this week as they transition from their indoor to outdoor seasons. Should be back on next week hopefully too with their delicious salad leaves.

• Looking abroad, Vasco have added padrons in punnets and Bioandalusi have sweet potatoes. Fairtrasa have some abate pears, Zann some mini watermelons and Uni-Vert some sugar peas.

• The pick of the Dynamis adds this week include yellow beans, tenderstem garlic, rebellion tomatoes and agretti.

• On the pantry items front, we’ve banana chips and dried pineapple from Equal Exchange, Fresh Flour return with their pastas and noodles and 3 new light wines from Vinceremos for yous to enjoy in this lovely sun : )

I’ll end this week with a quick nod to our Josie’s replacement, Ella who as well as providing all of the lovely pics for our weekly newsletters is now also going to be penning the blurbybits at the top and bottom of each one as Jose used to do. Ell’s filling big shoes as Jose is about the funniest person we’ve all ever met but we know she’ll smash it like she does everything else she puts her hands to.

Hope you’re enjoying this second wave of suuunshiiiiiiiiiiine 🙂

Sean, Mads, Cathryn, Ella and all of us at team ON x

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Biona beans & legumes – get your fibre fix!

As well as loving a good springo, the ONHQ kitchen is basically powered by beans. And thanks to Biona, we’ve got such a variety, it’s hard to know where to start. And as they’re available in both jars and tins, you can fill yer boots with all sorts of goodness.

Our top picks? Beansprouts, flageolet beans, black chickpeas, and tender young green beans – perfect for everything from big stews and curries to crunchy salads and stir fries.

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