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This lavender’s a bloomin’ good time!
Meet Northern Lavender – first-generation organic flower farmers based in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire. Fergus and his team grow across 100 acres, and their field-grown lavender is now in full bloom. We had some fresh bunches come through the warehouse yesterday and the scent was unreal – trust us, you’ll want a whiff of this. We’ll have more herbs available in time too.
Available in bunches of 10 or 20 – grab yours while it’s fresh (soon to be dried too)!
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Hello Organic Northerners,
I hope you’re all doing dandy! Guess who’s in the hot seat (again)… I’m starting to suspect Sean’s never coming back to write this newsletter – this week he’s off camping at Groundswell Festival in Hertfordshire. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a brilliant regenerative agriculture event bringing together farmers, growers, and food lovers to explore sustainable farming practices.
Find out more about it here: https://groundswellag.com
Starting off a bit closer to home, last week we teamed up with Marc Makes Comics and Beano to celebrate Banana Man’s 45th birthday at the Macc-Pow Comic Art Festival in Macclesfield. Marc handed out 100 anniversary Beano editions – and we chipped in 100 of our organic bananas to match!
Check out both Marc’s and the Macc-Pow Comic Art Festivals instagrams here:
Banana Man’s not the only one trying to get kids onto the good stuff – a shoutout to our Cathryn today as she’s off today to talk to school kids about soil and the importance it plays in our food systems. She was invited during our outing at the MMU Sustainability Festival a couple of weeks ago. Good luck!
A few quick bits before the veg rundown:
- We’re nearly at the end of Spartan and Gala apples from Mole End – but we’ve still a good supply of Braeburns and Crimson Crisp to go at.
- Richard Rowan is now Lynher Growers – same great farm and produce, just a new name.
- Simpson is off on their holidays this week (a shame, as their springos were looking top tier this week), but back to regular scheduled programming next week.
- And we’ve another a new grower! Brickyard Farm in Lincolnshire – neighbours and friends of Will at New Farm – have joined the list with some lovely rocket spuds.
Onto the rest of the veg goss:
- Starting in the UK, Newfields have 10kg white cabbage, spring onions and turnips while Pollybell has fennel and purple sprouting broccoli.
- Elsewhere in the UK, Lynher Growers has broad beans, Roddys has bunched cavolo nero and kale while Foskettshas bunched rainbow beets and Middle Ground has cavolo nero, and both regular and purple basil.
- We’ve got the start of the UK squash from Strawberry Fields with crookneck, custard mixed and spaghetti all available in 10kgs.
- From the market gardens, Growing Well has chard rainbow, Trinity has short cucs, fig leaves, mixed kale and flat parsley while Kindling has frissee lettuce and rocket in kilos and half kilos.
- Lastly on the UK fruit front, Carey has added some blackberries to their availability.
- From Spain, Bioalgarrobo has pointy red pepps and cherry vines tomatoes, Biovergel has white turnips and Bioandalusi has aubs, yellow onions and mini watermelons and Be Organic has flat nectarines and verdelli lemons.
- From Holland, Fairtrasa has Anjou pears and Zann has loads of added including ginger, parsnips, passion fruit, yellow plums and mini watermelons.
- Our top pick outs from Dynamis this week are the white aubs, red bunched beetroots, peas, blood red peaches and Kyoto apricots.
- For your pantry’s, we’ve all the pesto flavours back on from Mr Organic, tri-colour quinoa from Biofair, a selection of rice and beans from Biona as well as maple syrup and tomato purée and lastly some dark and medium roast coffees from Equal Exchange in both beans and ground.
Until next time,
Ell, Mads, Cathryn, Sean and all of us at team ON x
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Luscombe Summer Bevs – Buy More, Get Free!
We’re still running our promo on Luscombe drinks – these soft and bubblies have been going strong since 1975. Perfect for cracking open on hot summer days, their bottles have had a bit of a glow-up recently but still deliver the high-quality flavour they’re known for.
Here’s the deal:
- 320ml cans: Buy 3 cases, get 1 free
- 740ml bottles: Buy 2 cases, get 1 free
A classic BTGOF, if you will. Stock up while it lasts!
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