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Hodmedod’ve Bean Busy!
There’s some new lines of organic beans on the horizon from this busy lot.
Josiah and the team are passionate about the power of pulses & beans in changing our food and farming systems for good, tirelessly raising awareness of the benefits they bring to the soil, biodiversity and human health. Magical little beans can do all that?! We’re on board.
They’re adding four new types; flageolet, borlotti, white coco and black ‘turtle’ beans to the list of organics they can offer us very soon which we’re bloody chuffed about. We’ll let you know when they’re available!
Now it’s been said that we have our fingers on the pulse, but we’d add beans to the list too.
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Good afternoon Organic Northers,
It’s crisp out there but boy is it glorious to see that big yella ball above the clouds again, hallelujah!
Yesterday was another tough one in the warehouse as we were a little light on the ground but we’re plenty busy at a time when many are struggling so we don’t lose sight of being thankful for that.
This week we’ve a new supplier for you guys in Forest Wholefoods. Their ‘about’ section on their website reads…
“Our mission is to make organic and natural whole food more accessible and affordable so all people can build themselves and their families with honest, healthy food. We want to make a natural life accessible so that more people are eating real food and cooking from scratch.”
Folk very much after our own heart so on the list they pop. We’ve no idea what the demand will be like so we’ve played it conservative on our first order with these guys but on the list you’ll now see a pretty extensive range of nuts, seeds, dried fruits, berries and honeys. Here’s a link to more of what these guys are about, we’re chuffed to partner up with them…
Our Story | Come Join the Family | Forest Whole Foods
This is a typically lean time for UK greens on the list but Mads and Cathryn have been busy liaising with some of our growers this past week and it seems we’ll soon have some new greens to look forward to. Richard Rowan is hoping to have purple sprouting broccoli in 2 weeks and kales within a month and Newfields are likely to have psb in a few weeks too. John, Rach and the team from Newfields will also have savoy and Jan king cabbages in a fortnight and some kales after that too. Lastly prospective on the new lines to the list, Cathryn has a called scheduled with the Tomato Stall this week to discuss those guys starting on with us again soon too.
In less positive news, our mate, the living legend that is Terry Simpson has unfortunately suffered a hernia and as such won’t be able to lift any carrots for us early season this year. Terry’s nails and a proper grafter so it must be pretty bad to have slowed him down in his tracks. He’s gonna use the downtime to go visit some other growers including the guys at the Kindling Trust who recently took over a large farm near Speke in Liverpool. We’re wishing Terry a speedy and full recovery. They don’t build ‘em like him.
Last up before the veg goss, a warm welcome to two new customers in Broughton Sanctury in Skipton and Rootstock’s new retail outlet that in Alderley Edge that is due to open this week. Sophie, Megan and the team have absolutely smashed it at Rootstock’s home site in Bollington, Cheshire and things have gone so well, they’re expanding into a second site. Given how hard it is to make things stick on the high street just now, this a phenomenal achievement and we hope they’re very proud of what they’re achieving. More than a shop they’ve become a hub to the local community and to be a small part of all that makes us giddy : )
To the veg news:
- Royal Oak have some washed rainbow carrots again those these are limited so I’ll be trying to share them about as much as I can.
- Elsewhere from the UK, we’ve listed Pound Farm this week with their alouette and twister spuds, chapel have listed alouette spuds too and Dart Valley have some super pungent maitake shrooms.
- From France, Uni-Vert have some flat parsley and the pick of the Dynamis adds are spinach baby leaf in punnets and young turmeric .
- From Holland the red pointed cabbages that Zann added last week arrived looking really great and this week they extend their offering with Chinese cabbage, pak choi and xenia pears.
- From Italy, Frutti have grapefruit, lemons, clementines and blood oranges and Geima have added blood moro oranges too. Our citrus game has never been stronger than it is this year.
- Returning from Portugal this week, we’re really buzzing to see the return of Mais. Mais are a family farm and the family has been facing some challenges of late that made their regular deliveries into us less reliable than we’d like them to be. Thankfully we’re told that a solution to their issues over there has been found and we’re delighted to welcome them back on the list. I’m not going to list what they’ve available this week as there’s bloody loads of it and I’ll be here all day but I implore you to study their offering as it’s broad and there’s some really interesting lines on there.
- From Spain this week, Gospa have some kumquats and clems, Ecosur have some Palermo red pointy peppers and a range of toms, Thaymin have some yellow onions and perhaps most interestingly of all, Bioandalusi have some very affordable aubergines to go at. These are really expensive all across Europe just now so we’re delighted to have been offered some more affordable ones to go at by our new Spanish pals.
- From the bottom of the list, alongside the new supplier Forest Wholefoods (who are actually at the top of the list this week), we’ve choccy biccies available from the Fresh Flour Company alongside a load of their pastas. Their orzo is especially great and we often have it for our staff meals (the best bit about our Monday/Weds warehouse shifts by a mile). We’ve also a new Provence Rose available from Vinceremos and ghee returns from Happy Butter too : )
I’ll sign off this week with a job advert shared with us by our pal, Hamish down at Middle Ground Growers in Bath. Job and application info can be found from this link- it’s £12.50 per hr with full employee benefits ++ and you need to apply by the 9th March.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JL3Hhk3b61IBSeqRUq7V2liBVRqeaY0ceILA5ao98ZE/edit?usp=sharing
Hope the sun’s shining some for you too,
Sean, Mads, Cathryn, Josie, Ell and all of us at team ON x
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Luscombe
Our little bottles of Luscombe drinks are perfect little treats. Think Britvic 55 in the 90s, but organic, classy and properly nice. There’s nout artificial, no sweeteners or concentrates here of course.
Our Winter Warmer varieties now actually have 40% off, which is a bonus if like us, you’re feeling the cold snap at the moment!
We tried these not long back – the cherry juice and hibiscus are beaut and there’s a lovely spiced aroma coming from the nutmeg and cinnamon. A great non-alcoholic bev for those of us that aren’t on the whiskey train – something to warm your cockles as they say. Our tip is to put a wee bit of orange peel in there to really get the most out of those aromatics.
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