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Brrrrr
Jack Frost’s been nippin’ at our noses for certain. We reckon it’s about time to get some of these fragrant Mais Portuguese chestnuts on that open fire… sharpish.
The purple sun carrots from Royal Oak above maintain their vivid violet hues when oven-roasted. They look and taste bloody great roasted whole on your Sunday dins. Highly recommend!
…Purple nosed snowmen are pretty cool too for those amongst us that have been pelted with the white stuff overnight.
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Good afternoon Organic Northers,
As the temps plummet at this time of year, it’s more about what remains on the list than what exciting new lines we have each week. We’ll have the odd new apple variety and some new roots coming on but it’s more about hoping that we hang onto the interesting array of greens for as long as possible, whilst enjoying things like the new season citrus that we’ve started to receive from Europe.
Thankfully this week, our domestic greens game is complemented by the kales from Roddy’s and on the roots front we’ve now turnips from Newfields too. We also ran a taste test of some of our new clems yesterday and this week at least, Gospa’s, Dynamis’ and Biovergel’s came out as clear winners. A tang, juicy and sweetness about them all. Some of the less popular were more watery/bland with less sugars to them. We do also have one new supplier for you this week, some new canned wines- a little more about those below.
Anyhoo, based upon the feedback of you guys, our finalised Christmas/New Year plans are as follows:
To confirm from last week, the most straightforward part of the festive break schedule this year is our first warehouse day back in the New Year, which I can confirm will be Monday 6th January. However, as the usual pricelist/ordering day for this week falls on New Year’s eve, we will instead produce and make live our pricelist a day earlier on Monday the 30th December. To confirm, FOR ORDERS THE WEEK COMMENCING THE 6TH JANUARY, YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE PLACED YOUR ORDERS SOMETIME BETWEEN NOON ON 30TH DEC – 5PM ON 31ST DECEMBER.
As for our pre-Christmas plans, based upon the feedback we’ve received, we are going to run an extra warehouse day to receive fresh deliveries on Friday 20th December. If you are interested to have an extra order that week based on the produce that is delivered into us on this day please let us know as soon as possible. We will be running deliveries in our own vans on that Friday, Sat and possibly even the Sunday depending on demand. Collections can be made from our warehouse on the Friday too.
On that Friday we can send pallet orders up and down the country to land on Saturday also, though please be aware that pallet charges will be around twice the price if you decide you need this service as is common for weekend haulage.
Understandably, only a handful of you guys were desperate for an order on 23rd December. For those who we have arranged this with already, we will look to take deliveries from a very few select suppliers (bananas, RO and shrooms etc) and we can deliver or you can collect your orders that day. We’ll also be sending out the odd pallet to be delivered out on Xmas Eve- eeek!
Thanks for your patience as we’ve been trying to sort this out. There’s still a lot of work to do to make sure that this year runs as smoothly as possible and much of our collective efforts this end will now be going in to making sure that this Chrimbo is a gooden on the veg front at least! : )
This week’s list highlights…
- As alluded to above, on the domestic front there’s not too many new lines to mention really this week. Middle Ground have some bits and bobs for the latter half of the week but that’s about it on the veg front other than what I’ve already mentioned above.
- On the UK fruit front, Oakwood have added Claygate apples and their russet and cox blend juices return to the list too this week. Pardoe has kid’s orange apples too this week (always popular) and Mole End, a small number of Williams pears. Please note that we won’t be able to accept big orders on these pears as we look to share them about as best we can.
- From Spain, Campo have started with their fennel, Haciendas are on with aubergines, cucs and peppers again, Ecosur have French beans and Biovergel have some Fuerte avocados too. From Portugal, Mais also now have rocket, mizuna, dill and marjoram.
- The top pick-outs from Dynamis this week would be the blanched escarole, plantain and red sun kiwis. Zann also have loose cranberries and Fairtrasa juicing ginger.
- On the Pantry item front, the two big bits of news this week are that the full range from Classico after many delays is finally back and we’ve the new and aforementioned wine supplier, Vinca added to the list now too. Our Josie has kindly featured a wee intro to the cans below but Vinca’s cans are the company’s attempt at keeping wasted wine to a minimum, cheapening the cost of transporting wine in heavier glass and using a material (aluminium can) that can be recycled again and again. The cans are also made from recycled aluminium.
- Elsewhere on the Pantry item front, The Authentic Bread company have a few more mince pies and biscuits to sell so they have been relisted, both Nemi Teas’ lines and Mr Organic’s lines have been restocked and we’ve also just one box of a lovely new tawny port on from Vinceremos Last up but by no means least are some new 1kg eco tins (think can of paint) full of nothing but peanut butter from Carley’s. Absolutely zero added to these and for us they’re a bargain for what they are so chuffed to be able to list them.
Wishing all you guys safe passage out on those icy roads and streets – we’re off to dust off our toboggans,
Sean and team ON x
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Vinca Wine
You might have seen these handy little cans popping up over the last year. Founder Jack and the team are bringing single-serve organic wine to the fore and we’re here for it. They’ve sourced grapes for each variety from organic vineyards across the West coast of Sicily, including Syrah for the rosé and Nero d’Avola for the red.
We know that some of your shops and lunch spots have been requesting these single-serve beauties for a little while and we’re happy to be giving them a go. Sometimes opening the full bottle just isn’t practical… or wise! Four cans = one bottle.
Cans are also a good remedy for a lot of the carbon issues associated with alcohol and bevs in general. Apparently we’re all doing our bit for the planet with every can supped, as they’re organic, light and infinitely recyclable!
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