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Autumn feels like it’s creeping up on us, and it’s about time we highlighted the Bourjassotte fig. Fig trees from the Mediterranean have been written about since Ancient Greek times. From there, figs gradually made their way north into France, where they became an established part of the country’s cuisine. Although it’s possible to grow… Read More »

We’re loving spring onions at the moment. They were crop planned with Kindling Farm, Merseyside way back before the start of the growing season. Currently being harvested is their outdoor crop, delivering to us twice weekly in their hundreds of bunches. It’s great to see the team at Kindling over the moon with their harvest,… Read More »

Let’s celebrate the arrival of September with some beautiful French grapes from Provence. In our fruit range all week we have the gorgeous Muscat de Hambourg variety. Betty and Jean-Charles are small organic wholesale producers in the region. It’s hard to ignore its silver glow, we cannot stop trying “just the one” when we walk… Read More »

We have an abundance of beautiful whole cobs of sweetcorn available this week, courtesy of Pam and the team at Strawberry Fields and Lucy and the team at Vine House Farm, both in Lincolnshire. It is definitely one of our favourite late-summer seasonal highlights, and it is looking and tasting fantastic after a particularly warm… Read More »

This week’s Veg News spotlights some of the fantastic UK orchard fruits we have on the fruit stand at the moment. Martin and Rachel Soble and the team at Carey in Herefordshire have a spectacular assortment of plums for us this week, including Excalibur, Mallard, Seneca and their first Greengages. Often nicknamed the ‘queen of… Read More »

Squash season is here!  We have had great squash growing weather this year with warm night temperatures bringing these on at a rapid rate.  This week from our squash grower extraordinaries Strawberry Fields we’ve got Custard, Crookneck, Turban, Harlequin, Spaghetti and Tromboncino squash in stock, and look out for their red kuri pumpkins next week.  The… Read More »