Online Ordering for 6th April – 10th April (Week 14)
Haslum are back 🥒👏🏼
Exciting news – Haslum return to the list this week! It’s a slow and steady start, with limited lines to begin: some long and short cucumbers, plus a few courgettes too.
We’ll be sharing these as fairly as we can, so no big volumes just yet – but get in quick if you’re keen, as we expect to sell out! Fear not though, they’re back for the foreseeable, with more range and availability over the coming weeks. 🍆🍅🥒
Good afternoon you lovely lot,
Bloody freezing in that warehouse it was yesterday!
Before I get into my Tuesday flow, please note that for the forthcoming double bank-hol, some order cut-offs (as listed below) have had to have been brought forward.
- Ecosur – Weds by 7am
- Cal Valls – Weds by 8:30am
- Camposeven – Weds by 8:30am
- Biovergel – Weds by 9am
- Caw Teifi – Weds by 9am
- Pollybell – Weds by 10am
- Oakwood – Weds by noon
- Royal Oak – Weds by noon (Mon/Tues customers only)
For folk who have their deliveries on a Tuesday via 3rd party haulage, please note that next week, your pallet will arrive on Wednesday instead. If you really need it for Tuesday as usual, you will have the option of switching to a chilled pallet but we would have to know about this in advance (asap) and please note that chilled pallets are considerably more expensive than ambient ones.
Well, I hope you haven’t all been exposing your delicate young seedlings to these dropping temps- brrrrr! The gloves and snoods were back out with a vengeance yesterday, though the amount of wool on show aside, you can always tell how cold it is as everyone works a little faster to stay warm! : )
As our Ell features up top, the cold temps thankfully don’t affect our glasshouse-grown early cucs and courgettes from Stephen Haslum from down in Tewksbury in Gloucestershire and we’re chuffed to see this fella back on already. When Stephen returns to the list, it allows us to start to dream about the range of new season crops that we’re soon going to be seeing coming through the door. Asparagus from Bedlam isn’t a million miles off now and our group of market-gardening pals will soon start to produce more too.
Talking of new suppliers, though we haven’t actively been looking for any these past couple of weeks, we’ve chanced across one and we should be listing their wares as soon as next week. PICKLEBITS started life when our new pal, Will was running a food trailer in South Wales. His home-made pickles were apparently stealing the show so he decided to start to sell them so folk could use them at home. Will was in touch a short while back to see if we could supply veg for these pickles so as well as being a customer, Will and his pickles are about to become our newest supplier too. I really love these circular relationships that we have with some of our suppliers : )
To whet your appetite, there’s gonna be the following pickles available:
- Chopped cucumber pickled with garlic, dill & turmeric.
- Diced beetroot pickled in balsamic with cumin.
- British carrots diced and pickled with mixed spices.
- Burger pickles both Garlic & Dill and Hot & Spicy
In slightly less good news, there’s that many of you lot these days enjoying the yogurt from Loch Arthur that as a small charity run business, they are struggling to keep up with demand. Therefore, unfortunately our orders are now going to be limited somewhat. Be sure that i’ve already added ‘try and find an extra yogurt supplier’ to the endless job list though not sure when one of us will have to get onto that task yet.
The fruit and veg headlines:
- Starting in the UK as always, Newfields have added some spuds back to their offering including some alouettes, carolous and manitou, too. Bedlam also have some 10kg boxes of green kabocha squash.
- Elsewhere, Strawberry Fields add some bagged and loose spring greens, while Trinity add some rainbow chard and spinach.
- To close out on the UK adds this week, Mole End have some aria apples for us to go at.
- From Spain, we’ve aubergines and broad beans from Bioalgarrobo as well as some green and red peppers from Campo.
- From Holland, Zann has a variety of vine tomatoes for us as well as some lane late oranges, Chinese cabbage, avocados and both red and yellow peppers.
- From France, our top picks from Dynamis this week are the delisdor apples, cherimoya, medlars, lemongrass, strawberries in punnets and wakame seaweed while Uni-Vert add some more spinach, dalinette apples, inored apples and grapefruits.
- To line your pantry’s, we’ve got plenty more stuff available from Forest Wholefoods this week such as cacao trail mix, cashew nuts, coconut chips, macadamia nuts and a few varieties of dried cherries and berries.
I’ll end this week with a couple of links. The first is one in the Guardian about the new land use framework recently announced by the government that I was banging on about last week.
The second is a great new magazine (both online and available in print too) by The UK Grain Lab. These guys are at the cutting edge of all things seed, grain, flour and baking in the UK and amongst the group, are some of the sharpest and forward-thinking minds in the sector. The mag is a fascinating (and quick) read into what these guys are working on currently and they also invite interested parties to come join their movement too- enjoy!
Baking A Better Tomorrow: The story of the Grain Changers reshaping the bread we eat | Sustain
Hope you’ve not stored your jumpers away just yet and that you all have a fantastic Easter weekend,
Sean, Cathryn, Mads, Ell, Alph and Team ON x
Our resident chef Alph is getting stuck into the new UK Grain Lab magazine Sean mentioned above.
Looks like he’s already dreaming up all the loaves he’ll be baking soon – and hopefully we’ll get to try a few too. 🤞🏼🍞