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Loadsa Lovely British Produce!
It’s that time of year when our list is bursting with all the best English fruit and veg – and we love to see it.
Pictured here (left to right): the pretty in pink flamingo chard from Cheryl at Royal Oak, the sweet yet sharp Lord Lambourne apples from Carey, crisp Conference pears from Pardoe, and a lush, leafy head of lettuce fresh out of Moss Valley.
Local, seasonal, proper good.
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Good afternoon organic northerners and southerners alike,
Our Cheryl’s carrots from Royal Oak Farm are coming along nicely we’re told but they’re a little behind schedule for this summer’s drought. There’s no such drought this end however of things to fill you guys in on this week so to start us off…
- Simpson returns to the list this week but Haslum are away for a week on holiday.
- There’s a severe cream shortage at the moment so Acorn are gonna be without butter for approx. 1 month and Fresh Flour Company are taking a break on production until the end of Sept too.
- In better news, Godminster are offering 10% off all of their cheese for Organic September and we should have both Worcester and Windsor apples on from Mole end next week too.
In other news, two movements in Sheffield’s vibrant veg landscape currently are that Barra Organics are looking to sell their fab wee shop and Regather are looking for a new veg box manager.
Moya and the team at Barra Organics are long-standing customers of ours but after many years in retail, Moya is looking to branch out into seed-saving and artistic pursuits. As a result, she is looking for a buyer for her fab wee shop business on the very trendy Sharrow Vale Road in Sheffield. Barra has a loyal customer base, a very competitively-priced lease and is very well located so a great opportunity for an individual or group to take up the reigns and perhaps put their stamp on one of the cities key outlets for organic veg. Interested parties are invited to contact Moya on barraorganics@gmail.com for info or to arrange a viewing.
Organic Greengrocer Barra Organics for Lease on Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Elsewhere, another long-standing customer/supplier and pal of ours in Sheffield, Regather are looking to hire a new veg box scheme manager after the departure of Fran there who we’ve enjoyed working with a lot over many years. This is another great opportunity for those looking to get into the organic veg world- Regather are a great company to work for. Here’s the job advert:
Veg Box Scheme Manager | Regather
I’ll leave you this week with a link to a load of videos our Ajay took a few week’s back whilst on a trip to see our cheese supplier, Godminster – enjoy!
Godminster – Organic North Wholesalers
The veg updates:
- Starting in the UK, Royal Oak has golden beets with tops, a nice variety of lettuce and also baby radicchio and red spring greens while Newfields has red cabbages, bunched carrots and purple sprouting broccoli and Chapel adds savoy cabbage and loose dirty carrots.
- Elsewhere, Roddy’s has butternut squash, pointed cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli while Bedlam adds more squash to their range including crown prince, iron cap, munchkin and white acorn.
- Staying in the UK, Lynher Growers returns with green beans, cavolo Nero, courgettes, collard greens and kale. Terry Simpson also returns with leeks, spinach and coriander.
- Flourish adds some redmoon little gem to their list as well as roulette chilli peppers while Middle Ground has curly kale, white patty pan squash, perpetual spinach and kuri squash.
- From the market gardens, Growing Well has rainbow chard and padron peppers, Moss Valley has cavolo Nero, mixed salad leaves, spinach and some early emneth apples and Trinity adds aubergines, red peppers, Malabar spinach and fresh kaffir lime leaves.
- Lastly on the UK fruit front, Oakwood adds Windsor apples and Warwickshire drooper plums, Carey has juicing apples, lord lambourne apples, conference pears in mixed sizes and also some Coe’s golden drop plums.
- Mole End has Lafayette, Bramley, Windsor and Worcester apples again and Windmill adds Worcester pearmain apples, Comice pears and conference pears.
- From Spain, Biovergel has green and red lamuyo peppers, red kuri squash and yellow onions and Bioandalusi has osteen mangoes and white and red seedless grapes. Also from Spain, Be Organic has Eureka lemons.
- Elsewhere from Europe, Zann has chicory, Chinese cabbage, passion fruit and Williams pears while Vasco has Shiitake mushrooms, coriander bagged and loose and oregano.
- Our top pick outs from Dynamis this week are purple queen pomegranates, prickly pears, Nashi pears, Kiwanos (horned melons), patidou squash, musquee squash and red corne de boeuf peppers.
- For your pantry’s, we’ve plenty of jams from Hembridge again including blackcurrant, blueberry and raspberry and some honey, mixed nuts and berries from Forest Wholefoods. We also have long grain rice, brown lentils, sweetcorn and gherkins from Biona.
Speak to you all again next week,
Sean, Mads, Cathyrn, Ella, Alphin and everyone at Team ON x
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From Seasonal British Veg to Full On Exotic!
It’s not just the seasonal British veg filling out our list at the moment as Dynamis drop their first lot of weird and wonderfuls of the season.
The kiwano melon looks like it’s wandered straight off a sci-fi set – bright orange, spiny, and glowing green on the inside. Its mild flavour’s a bit like cucumber, and it’s just as tasty eaten straight with spoon as it is jazzing up a salad or cocktail.
Next up, the prickly pear – straight from a cactus and not one to grab bare handed. Get past that spiky outer layer and you’ll find sweet, soft flesh. Eat it fresh or chuck in smoothie for a tasty boost of vitamins and antioxidants.
And don’t worry, it’s not all spines and spikes. The nashi pear is crisp, juicy and sweet, looking more like an apple but with its own unique grainy texture. Perfect for chopping into a salad or – our favourite – ‘pear’ it with your fave cheese.
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