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A few snaps from Sean’s trip over to Sheffield last week to meet up with the Soil Association, OF&G, LWA & plenty more bigwigs from the fruit & veg game before spending a day visiting as many of our Sheffield based customers that he could squeeze in. Pictured is Beanies luscious veg display, a snap outside Barra Organics, beautiful red cabbages in the field at Moss Valley as well as Monsal Dale on the journey back home! What a trip! 😀

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Good afternoon everyone,

As mentioned above, I enjoyed a splendiferous visit to Sheffield for a few days last week so thanks to everyone I managed to meet for being so kind with your time and your generous hospitality. So focused as we are on bettering our range and making sure that your order’s get to you safely, we’ve never had the opportunity to get round the country and put as many faces to names that we would like. We’re hoping that’s gonna change though so if you’re within Vespa distance, don’t be surprised if you see me tootling around your town sometime soon .*also just for the record, Sheff’s real ale game is off the charts too, best place I’ve ever been for a pint : )   

A few bits of housekeeping before I get onto the new lines for this week:

• For everyone who pre-ordered their Authentic Bread Xmas goodies last week, it’s been confirmed to us that you will all receive these on the week commencing 11^th November.

• This is Royal Oak’s first pumpkin week so get in there and bag what you need while we’ve got them. There’s two new varieties to go at this year too : ) 

• Lastly, we were treated to visit one of our great new suppliers a few weeks ago called Flourish and here’s a few vids we made of the trip. Calixta’s passion for what’s she’s building down there in Cambridgeshire is palpable on these and we’re so thrilled to have the chance to work with these guys. Their first deliveries have been really impressive and it’s such a delight to see so many varietals that we’ve never seen before.

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/orders.organicnorth.co.uk/uploads/videos/Supplier/264/Organic-North-Visit-Flourish-Produce.mp4

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/orders.organicnorth.co.uk/uploads/videos/Product/8215/Onions.mp4

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/orders.organicnorth.co.uk/uploads/videos/Product/8366/Green-Apple-and-Striped-Aubergine.mp4

Fruit & Veg Headlines:

• Starting with Royal Oak we have our first UK sprouts of the season- wahoo! A once feared veg for the times you might have had them overcooked as a nipper, these are now many folks’ fave veg and we’re chuffed to see them back. Royal Oak actually have loadsa new lines this week including the pumpkins mentioned above, cabbages, fennel, radicchio and a range of squashes too. These guys will also start with their lovely washed carrots and parsnips next week too.
• Staying on squash for a second, Foskett’s also now have the crown prince, futsu and teeny varieties available too. 

• Newfields are proper into their tater harvesting game now and this week have all of their varieties available in the smaller 12.5kg bags too. 

• Elsewhere, Pollybell and Roddy’s have celeriac, St Helen’s Farm has savoy cabbages, Strawberry Fields have added spring greens, Farrington’s have swede and Chapel have golden beets, kohl rabi and white cabbages. Flourish also have white mooli, mixed radicchio, bird of paradise kale and some white chillies! 

• From our market gardeners, Middle Ground have some celery and spring onions and Trinity have some mixed chillies too alongside some rainbow chard. 

• On the UK fruit Frut, Windmill Orchard have some fiesta and Lord Lambourne apples and Oakwood have started with their lovely cox apples.

• From Spain, Campo have started with their celery, Romaine lettuce and clementines, Hortichuelas have padrons, Biovergel have some lemons, small kiwis and black seedless watermelons and Haciendas have added peppers and aubergines too. From Portugal, Mais also now have chestnuts. 

• The top pickouts from Dynamis this week would be the Jerusalem artichokes, chayote, chervil root, yellow habaneros, blue toms, wazabina, feijoa and yuzu. Zann also have yuzu available this week too. 

• From the bottom of the list this week Hodmedod have their Dahl and split green peas again, we’ve digestives from the Fresh Flour Company, Carley’s peanut butter in the big jars and there’s a range of refilled lines from Mr Organic who has started selling really well : ) 

I’m fresh out of puff and ready to process some orders so I’ll sign off there but thanks as ever for your continued support guys. 

Sean and team ON x 

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Vintage Roots went down a storm – here a couple of snaps of some of their offerings you went for! And pictured underneath are the increasingly popular Initial & Russett apples from Oakwood which have been going down a treat in the warehouse over the last few weeks.

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