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Fresh from the fields…
Cheryl at Royal Oak has kindly sent us a peek at what’s sprouting this week, and as you can see, everything’s coming along nicely. There’s plenty of new produce on the list, so make sure you have a good ole peruse and take your pick. And best of all – the long wait is finally over… the carrots are ready! Huzzah. 🥕
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Good afternoon you lovely lot,
Sean’s been off adventuring in Northern Ireland this past weekend, starting with the Fields Good Festival (think of it as their version of Groundswell). Sounds like he’s been making plenty of pals, swatting up on all things ‘regen’ and seeing what the Irish make of its seemingly growing popularity. What was meant to be a weekend trip has now turned into a week long traipse across Northern Ireland. His latest check in had him leaving Derry and heading by bus towards Donegal albeit slowly behind a tractor lugging 10 tonnes of taytos.
Next up, as you probably know, September is Organic September, and this year’s theme is all about nourishing your gut garden. While the spotlight is on how eating organic helps feed all those good little bacteria in your gut, we thought it would also be the perfect chance to celebrate our wonderful fermenter suppliers. After all, if there’s one thing guaranteed to make your gut happy, it’s a spoonful (or seven) of ferments. If you’ve not yet tried them, here are some of our top picks:
- Loving Foods – Classic Kimchi and Cortido Kraut (plus krauts suitable for kiddies and even four legged friends)
- Morgiel – Pickles in Brine and Plain Sauerkraut
- Equinox – Sicilian Orange & Yuzu Booch and Cola & Lime Booch
- You & I – Black Cherry Booch and Lime & Sea Salt Booch
A quick heads up – there won’t be any Oakwood juice available this week, as they’re waiting on a new machinery part. Fingers crossed everything will be back up and running next week, and the juice will return as normal.
And lastly, before we dive into the veg updates, we’ve got a couple of videos to share from Ajay’s recent visit to John Hurd’s watercress farm. We love John’s take on watercress being the real fast food. And if you’re not munching it by the handful, try tossing some onto a bacon butty – sorted!
John Hurd – Organic North Wholesalers
The veg updates:
- To kick off the veg updates, we’ve got some Trevi cauliflowers arriving from Brickyard next week. This variety is a real looker, with its pale to lime green head and firm, crisp texture. We’ll be sure to snap a few photos for the price list so you can see them in all their glory.
- Elsewhere in the UK, as mentioned above the carrots from Royal Oak are finally back on the list as well as some kales, komatsuna and a variety of lettuce.
- Newfields has purple, green and white cauliflowers, fennel with tops and little gem lettuce, Pollybell has some small cauliflowers for us to go at and Bedlam has casperita squash.
- Staying in the UK, Strawberry Fields has casperita squash, celebration squash and some crown prince and Lynher Growers adds round yellow courgettes and spinach. Haslum are also back this week with their full list of aubs, cucumber and tomatoes.
- Flourish has added lots to the list this week including caraflex pointed cabbage, koral kale, midnight sun kale, seaweed kale, tropea onions, goat horn peppers and bronze fennel while Middle Ground has added chives and rosemary.
- From the market gardens, Moss Valley has added cavolo Nero, curly kale, mixed salad leaves and rajka apples while growing well has padron peppers and mixed cherry tomatoes.
- Lastly on the UK fruit front, Oakwood has added Bramley apples and Marjorie’s seedling plums, Pardoe has Rubin step apples and topend plums while Carey adds Merton pride pears and Augernik adds beurre hardy plums.
- Continuing with UK fruit, Mole End has robin apples, Windsor apples, Worcester apples and conference pears while Windmill has lord lambourne apples.
- From Spain, Bioalgarrobo has castellano tomatoes, Biovergel has osteen mangoes and conference pears while Be Organic has avocados and dragon fruit.
- Elsewhere from Europe, Vasco has some lemons and Fairtrasa has conference pears.
- Our top pick outs from Dynamis this week are romanesco cauliflowers, red jalapeños, jack be little pumpkins, drinking coconuts, jujubes (Chinese dates), paw-paws, caviar lemons and red maracuja.
- For your pantry’s, we’ve got green raw pitted olives again from Niko as well as extra virgin olive oil and also some honey halva from Sunita.
Speak to you all again next week,
Ella, Mads, Cathryn, Alphin and everyone at Team ON x
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📸 Papped from the Fields Good Festival in Northern Ireland.
You can spot Sean having a natter with Ashley from Farming the Future and Beth from the Food Ethics Council, who’s also one of the directors of the fab Carrick Greengrocers in Carrickfergus.
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