Online Ordering for 11th May – 15th May (Week 19)
Udderly delicious yogurt and kefir from Brown Cow Organics 🐄🥛
To complement our yogurt supply from Loch Arthur, we’re excited to introduce this family-run farm with over 80 years of sustainable farming behind them.
Their herd of grass-fed Guernsey cows roam freely around the pastures on their farm in Pilton, Somerset. They produce rich, organic milk, that’s turned into naturally thick yogurt and kefir – you won’t find any additives, emulsifiers, or stabilisers here. Everything is handmade by a small local team and packed in fully recyclable or plastic-free packaging.
Brown Cow kindly sent us some samples to taste test. The kefir is smooth with a gentle tang, packed full of beneficial bacteria, while the whole milk yogurt is thick and creamy. Our standouts were the ginger kefir, strawberry kefir and vanilla yogurt – though honestly, everything was delicious. It’s easy to see why they’ve won so many awards 🥇🥈
Good afternoon everyone,
I hope at the very least that some of you got to enjoy a long and sunny bank holiday weekend. Though there was clearly a couple of bank hol hangovers on show, we were all back at it from 3am yesterday flinging veg as per : )
This week the French celebrate Victory Day (WWII) and as a good amount of our veg either is from or travels through France just now, the order cut-offs for some of our Spanish suppliers remain in place again as last week. Royal Oak’s order cut-off is back to normal as is Fairtrasa’s but please also note that any order changes from Dynamis will not be possible on Friday this week.
- Ecosur orders by 6am Weds
- Camposeven orders by at 7am Weds
- Bioalgarrobo orders by 7am Weds
- Biovergel orders by 7am Weds
- Bio & Bio and Solagora orders by 10am Weds
On the list front, we’re at the end of the UK leeks now but as you can see top and bottom from our Ell, we’ve two brand new suppliers for you guys to go at. Our new yogurt supplier, Brown Cow is in response to the recent news that we’ve hit max production at our long-term and much-loved supplier and customer, Loch Arthur. They’ve a range of natural and flavoured yogurts and kefirs for you guys- my faves were the vanilla yog and ginger kefir. Also listed for the first time we have some coconut water from Rebel Kitchen. A few of you guys had requested that we look into stocking this lovely stuff. We listened and here you go : )
The fruit and veg headlines:
- Starting in the UK, we have 10kg dirty carrots from Royal Oak once again while Farringtons also add some more valor and valor baker spuds.
- Staying the UK, Bedlam have some Amaro Montina asparagus which is known for being more delicate and mild than other varieties.
- Fosketts adds some pak choi, Strawberry Fields some lovage and Haslumsome cherry vine tomatoes.
- Lastly from the market gardens, Trinity has a variety of lettuce available as well as some spinach, spring onions and sugar snap peas and we also see the return of our lovely customer Moss Valley with some rockets and coriander.
- From Portugal, Vasco adds some radish, oranges, broad beans, courgettes, kohl rabi, shiitake mushrooms, basil and peppermint.
- From Spain, Bioalgarrobo adds some pointy green peppers, Biovergel has some red kuri squash, verna lemons and galia melons and Ecosur some cocktail vine tomatoes and mini watermelons.
- From Holland, Fairtrasa has some 13kg turmeric and Zann adds fennel, horseradish, leeks, butternut squash and pak Choi.
- From France, we see the first of the cherries coming in from Uni-Vert! While our top picks from Dynamis this week are purples artichokes, white and yellow courgettes, noire crimee tomatoes and also some more stone fruits in the form of peaches and nectarines.
- Lastly to line your pantry’s, we’ve some wholegrain spelt conghiglie and wholegrain spelt rigate from Pastificio and we also have plain Sussex Slipcote logs from High Weald.
To whet your appetite for next week’s installment, i’ve just been sent a link to a new video produced by the Soil Association that we feature in. I’ll link it up next week and you can laugh at seeing me embarrass myself in an entirely new way!
Have a great week,
Sean, Cathryn, Mads, Ell, Alph and Team ON x
Our second new addition this week is Rebel Kitchen and their 100% pure coconut water 🥥
Made with just one ingredient – young green coconuts handpicked by small hold farmers in a single region of the Philippines – it’s about as close as you can get to drinking straight from the coconut. Instead of heat pasteurisation, they use high-pressure processing to keep everything fresh while preserving the natural flavour and nutrients.
They kindly sent us some samples, which we’ve been enjoying on hot warehouse days. If you’re a coconut water fan, it’s lovely and refreshing (though we’ve learned it’s a bit of an acquired taste for some of the team 😅). Even better, the natural electrolytes and antioxidants can turn it pink over time – your very own naturally pink drink 💗