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We’ve absolutely ‘spore’-nd it …and gone and got some of Wyreside’s gourmet organic mushies on the list for you Wednesday lot!
Their best sellers – or the mane event if you will – are the lions mane mushrooms. Grown in Garstang, in Lancashire by Paul and Hayley at their micro farm. If you’ve not tried them, they’re often sliced up and fried like a steak – which is pretty flippin’ delicious and good for you to boot. So for those of you that haven’t been able to get Dart Valley’s distinctive little pompoms on your orders for Wednesdays, then now’s your opportunity 🙂
There’ll be some grey oysters and other varieties on the way soon too.
Above you’ll see Manchester’s finest leaves ready for your salad bowls from Kindling Trust in Stockport, plus some rocket is launching this week too.
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Good afternoon organic pals,
It appears that there’s a bit of rain on the way but what a lovely spring run we’ve been enjoying, eh. Sitting on our hands in the sun we haven’t been and there’s plenty of veg goss to get through again this week again. However, before all that, we’ve the dreaded DOUBLE BANK HOLIDAY to navigate through so it’s best I talk a bit about that first.
This bank hol serves to play havoc with our just in time haulage and delivery services so it takes a lot of planning our end to ensure it works as smoothly as possible. As a result of it and as highlighted on last week’s newsletter, some suppliers (mostly of dried goods) will be missing from the list this week because of it. There are also earlier order cut-offs for many suppliers too as we try and work around the fewer options we have about getting veg into us over the DBH.
Some cut-offs to note:
Chapel – Tuesday 6pm
Ecosur – Wednesday 6am
Mahollam Farm – Wednesday 10am
New Farm – Wednesday 10am
Royal Oak – Wednesday 11am
Riviera – Wednesday 11am
Caws Teifi – Wednesday 11.30am
Strawberry Fields – Wednesday 2pm
Riviera – Wednesday 9am
For newbies who receive their orders from us via 3rd party haulage on pallets rather than via one of our own vans, please be aware that for the bank hol, your deliveries next week will arrive on Wednesday instead of Tuesday as normal. If you require your pallet on a Tuesday, you do have the option to switch to a more expensive chilled haulier for one week as these still run on a bank holiday. Please get in touch very soon or with your order if you require this service. All deliveries via our own vans will work as normal for everyone.
With all that boring stuff out the way, in no apparent order, some more interesting news:
- We’ve yet another new and local supplier for you guys to go at this week, namely Wyreside Mushrooms (Cockerham, Lancashire) who have some lion’s mane mushrooms for us to go at. These guys specialise in gourmet shrooms and we expect their availability to us to increase should we consistently sell out of what they’ve available to us. The owners Paul & Hayley tell us that they will have grey oysters for us soon enough too. How exciting eh! : )
- I’ve been chatting to a new lass up at Botton Village this past week about us listing their wares again and excitingly it looks like it’s gonna be a goer too. Alongside their award-winning juices and chutneys etc, we’re going to be able to list their amazing cheese lines too. We’ve never had access to these before and they’ll be some of the finest cheese on the list so proper chuffed about this.
- Next up a link to a video on Facebook of one of our most beloved retailers, Brunswick Nursery (York) winning Best Small Farm Shop in the UK at the recent Farm Shop and Deli Retailer Awards down in Birmingham. We’ve been proud suppliers to these guys for many years and the work they do to support and provide a safe and stimulating environment for folk with leaning difficulties is phenomenal. They’re our driver Nick’s fave delivery stop and he always gets made a big fuss of every Thursday when he delivers : )A massive well done from all of us this end, guys- you deserve every success! X
https://www.facebook.com/brunswick.nursery/videos/1050482043780597/?rdid=EhAWx1NWm89JTNSC# - Elsewhere, Salted butter is back from Calon Wen, the Kindling salad is coming through looking tip-top just now (they’ve rocket too this week) and despite the bank hol interference, there’s lots of new things to go at still too, including UK ASPARAGUS. So without further ado…
The veg news!
- As above, the big news on the produce front this week is the start of the asparagus season from Bedlam Farm. We’ve got it available in 250g, 500g and loose 5kg boxes. Each year this marks the start of spring proper for us this end. It’s such a reliable, much-anticipated and well-loved veg…we’re chuffed to be able to savour it all over again.
- Elsewhere from the UK Royal Oak have cylindra beets in 10kg nets, Tresemple and Shillingford are on with purple sprouting broccoli and Haslum have their first aubergines too.
- On the market garden front, Kindling have more of their lovely salad as well as some rocket for us this week too and Trinity have some biodynamic radishes too.
- Newfields are now into their short supply gap but they will be back in a month with their first spinach and chards weather-permitting.
- On the import front, Vasco have added cavolo nero, Portuguese kale, lettuces and strawberries.
- From Spain, Biovergel have some semi-dry onions and limequats and Ecosur some cocktail vine toms.
- On the wholesale front, Zann hav added aubergines, peppers and golden russet apples and the Dynamis picks this week include mini San Marzano toms and agretti.
To wrap up proceedings today, here’s a link to a crowdfunder being run by our pal, Hamish Evans of Middle Ground Growers down in the Avon Valley. Hamish and his allies are campaigning to save the river valley through agroecology , community action and a regenerative producers cooperative. There’s 3 weeks left of the crowdfunder and it sounds a really extensive and interesting project so please have a look on the link below and pledge if you can.
Have a splendid Easter weekend everyone,
Sean, Mads, Josie, Cathryn, Ella and all of us at team ON x
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Well Mr Organic‘s bean busy jarring up his handsome legumes for us. There’s still two weeks of the 15% promotion off on these as well.
Netherend butter rolls are back in after a few years’ hiatus, so let us know what you think. They’re used in Whittal’s award winning fudge, in several Michelin starred eateries and stocked at Claridge’s – lardy dahh hey? Just about good enough for us lot then.
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