It’s a time of abundance and our veg display is absolutely bursting with fresh leafy produce. After a short hiatus, true spinach is back: available loose from market garden Glebelands (in Sale), as well as in bags from Duncan Gielty in Ormskirk. After much consideration Duncan has changed to a new supply of compostable bags.… Read More »
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Veg News September 3rd
The lack of sunshine and colder nights of recent days are not ideal conditions for summer veg such as courgettes, which have quickly turned from thriving numbers to a limited supply from our UK growers. Sweetcorn is the exception – with good availability and seemingly unending customer appetite we are going for gold and buying… Read More »
veg news 13th August
Veg news 13th August Long-time Unicorn supplier Windmill Organics in Oxfordshire have unfortunately had a crop failure on several of their orchard fruits. In a season where we’d usually be seeing early varieties of apples, pears and quince, we’re sad to report we’ll not be receiving any this year. This is due to the adverse… Read More »
Veg News 20th June
It’s been a really challenging month for our growers with so much June rainfall and Lincolnshire has been hit particularly hard. You should recognise “Strawberry Fields Farm” from our twice weekly deliveries since way back in the day, a backbone of our fine UK range. In the past few weeks much of Pam Bowers’ fenland… Read More »
Veg News 13th June
Despite heavy clouds and chilly downpours here in Manchester, produce arriving from the fields is singing of British summertime. We’ve started receiving fresh weekly deliveries from Farmstart in Stockport, a local initiative set up by the Kindling Trust to encourage people into commercial organic growing. The first of it’s kind in the UK, Farmstart provides… Read More »
veg news 9th April
April is always the leanest month for UK grown produce, all of the stored winter crops have finished and we are still awaiting the new plants in the field. It has however been a mild and early start to spring, and luckily for us Pam Bowers down in Lincolnshire has harvested the first lettuces of… Read More »