A very simple question to answer, we are our growers. A business that started on a farm, it’s aim to sell produce grown by farmers. That was Uncle Bernard’s vision all those years ago to sell organic produce, grown by organic farmers, direct to retailers. As the business has grown over the last 30 years …
January fruit is all about the colour orange, well and the fruit. The 1st month of the year gives us more than that New Year’s Resolution and a reason to try a new diet, It also brings us two very distinctive citrus fruit, Seville & Blood oranges. Our Seville Oranges are from the famous Spanish …
The time of year has arrived for the supply of this wonderful fruit. It is available for organic wholesale supply from January through to April. The distinctive red colouring of blood oranges is due to the presence of naturally occurring pigments called anthocyanins. Raspberries, blueberries and black rice are amongst the most common foods where …
English Organic Apples Season Is there anything better to eat than an English (organic – well we are bias) apple? Crisp, juicy and with that tang, that makes you smile, that you just don’t get from a Southern Hemisphere grown fruit. From the first Discovery apples of the season with their pink tinted flesh …
Organic Juicing Why? If you’re looking for juicing recipes that rejuvenate, cleanse, energise, improve diet or help with recovery, then you’re doing so because you have the best intentions of putting good nutrients into your body. Drinking homemade juice is a great way to get healthy. Here are three key reasons why: It’s an efficient …
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HOW TO KNOW IF AN AVOCADO IS OVERRIPE Colour is often mistaken as the indicator of ripeness for avocados. Colour is an indicator, but “feel” is a better measure of ripeness of fresh avocados. Fresh avocados do not ripen on the tree, they ripen or “soften” after they have been harvested. Fresh Hass avocados are …
The Rain in Spain is meant to fall mainly on the plain how ever someone forgot to tell the rain that. Ever since the Brexit vote in June and the devaluation of sterling against the US Dollar and the Euro, we have seen a marked increase in prices of fresh produce. In the early months, …
By Mid-October it is safe to say, I think, that Autumn is here and with the weather forecast I have seen for the rest of this week soon there will be no doubt. On the up side (unless of course you like cold, wet and windy weather) there is lots of lovely produce to look forward …
This time of year we see the first of the European New Season Lemons from Spain and Sicily. After a few months of Southern Hemisphere fruit it is great to get fruit that is grown a little closer to home however there is one small problem and that is the colour, these early fruit are …
This week I ate my first Organic English Apple of the season, a Discovery Apple from Paul Ward an amazing Kent based organic grower. Every year it is the same, that first bite into a real apple with real flavour evokes such powerful memories. Transported back to my uncle’s farm in North Devon and their …