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Merry Christmas Everyone

Az is shown above, proudly modelling his ‘tree’ pallet that is currently heading up to Scotland to one of you lucky ducks. He’s seen praying to the organic Gods that it all gets there without a hitch.

Elnor Lane Bakery surprised us this week by very kindly sending treats to help get us through these crazy Christmas work days…

Big thanks to them! They’ve stollen our hearts <3

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Season’s Greetings Organic Northers,

We’re almost halfway through the busiest week we’ve ever had on the veg and without wanting to tempt fate, everything so far has run super smooth. Though it’s very much a team effort this end, particular kudos this year has to go to our Cathryn who has been pulling out all of the stops to make sure that all of our pallets arrive on time. She has grown to be a lynchpin at our place and we know that we’re super lucky to have her.

Another big thank you of course must go to our amazing growers who despite the recent storms have battled through to provide us with our most comprehensive Christmas list ever. To give you an example, Cheryl and the majority of the team at Royal Oak came down badly with flu last week and they’ve battled through that to see that no one is disappointed on the most important week of the year. We’re really blessed to work with as many growers as we do and so thankful of the work they put in to keep us and all of you guys stocked up each week.

Last of all but by no means least, a huge thank you to all you guys. On the back of your loyal support (we’ve worked with some of you guys for almost 30 yrs now!), we have achieved some great things together this year and as an outfit I think we’ve made some real progress. We’ve loads of new growers and suppliers than last Christmas, loads more customers (including our first schools) and we attended numerous trade shows for the first time this past year too. We also ran some farm visits, have hosted some of growers and customers at ONHQ in Manchester and we’ll be looking to do plenty of the same next year too.

All our collective attention now turns to us completing the remaining veg orders, putting together our staff veg boxes and on a personal note, I’ve to begin preparing for couple of talks that I’m to be involved in at the Oxford Farming Conference in early January. I’m really looking forward to that and I’m hoping it will be a special cap on definitely the best year I’ve ever had on the veg.

So onwards and upwards, all the very best for 2025 everyone and we’ll be in touch on the 30^th December (Monday not the usual Tuesday) with the price list for the first week of the year : )

Sean and my wonderful colleagues, Mads, Cathryn, Josie, Anthony, Ella, Damien, Andy, Arron, Luke, Eleanor, Holly, Nick, Sean, Simeon, Adam, Kez, Darshan, Pete, Adam, Charlie, Liam, Marton, Rich, Rita, Stu
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Some happy faces from the Sunday shift – powered by stollen, copious mince pies and a whole lotta Grumpy Mule coffee!

Our final photo of 2024: the view from our humble HQ at the market – looking over the city as the sun sets on a great year of organic veg slingin’.

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