Hello

Hope you have a good week.

This week was Ed’s last week doing Thursday deliveries before he goes full time at Yorkshire Mushroom Emporium. He’s been with us for about a year now and will continue to supply us with his mushrooms. Please help him with his leap of faith in going full time self employed and continue to buy his mushrooms, it’s a scary step that myself and I’m sure many of you can relate to!
For now, I will be back as a Thursday delivery driver until a suitable replacement is found. Which means for the time being the website won't get updated until Friday each week and this email may start to appear a little later.

Next week is looking like a fabulous week for UK and local veg (and fruit).

Living Potential are back with quite a haul and some new lines for us to try, Passion4Plants are slowing down but still have a good range available and it’s the start of a new UK fruit season.

New goodies from Living Potential include rocket, radishes and a new salad which includes Asian greens, spinach, little gem lettuce and pea shoots.

That’s to add to their boltardy bunched beetroot, cavolo nero, red russian kale, stir fry mix, flat parsley and curly parsley.

Passion4Plants have more excellent printanor garlic bulbs, 3 types of cucumber, edible flowers, salad tomatoes, mixed colour tomatoes and strawberry plants.

Elsewhere from across the UK we’ve got some lovely cherry vine tomatoes from The Tomato Stall, plenty of pak choi from Lancashire, the first UK butternut squash of the year and a brand new product ‘stocolli broccoli’ (Chinese broccoli grown in Lancashire). 

For fruit next week expect no less than THREE UK fruit lines.
British fruit is a bit of a bizarre one as we don't really actually grow many fruits in the UK, particularly organically. That’s compared to UK organic veg which we have in abundance right now. The reality is many fruiting plants require lots of sun to produce the natural sugars, something we are sometimes lacking in here in the UK.
Many berries are heavily sprayed to grow commercially, so the organic season of these is tiny and highly expensive vs conventional, so to get 3 UK fruits in one week is pretty rare. Next week you’ll find red pippin apples, majorie plums and the first UK conference pears of the season.

Have a great weekend.
Thanks
Sam