Here comes truffle!

• May is one of our big change-over months, moving away from our Spanish growers to our English and Dutch growers for tomatoes, salads and leaves – from now until October.
• Weather permitting, we’re also excited to shortly receive the first of this season’s British strawberries from Julian Mead at Fiveways Farm in Colchester (expected mid-May).
• It looks like UK parsnip supply will stop very soon. Due to poor yields after the recent rain and the crops being sat in water for so long, we’re down to a trickle in supply and Spanish crops won’t be ready until around mid-May. It’s a similar picture with carrots although it’s not quite as tight as there’s more import options. We’re already supplying imported carrots alongside the ever-decreasing UK supply.
• It’s been a terrible season for spuds. Plantings are down, yields decimated and crops have been left in the ground to rot due to the wet weather. And now our growers our struggling to plant this year’s crop due to short and expensive potato seeds, again, down to the wet weather.
• In summary, we’ve had two challenging vegetable growing seasons and it looks like we could be facing a third. As a result, over the next few months, we’ll likely be facing higher than usual levels of imports.

May Bank Holidays
With two bank holidays this month (Monday 6^th & Monday 27^th), please place your orders as early as possible to avoid produce shortages. Keep an eye out on our socials for news on our delivery schedules across both weekends.

Sustainability drive
We’ve taken a big step forward to reduce the amount of paper we use as a business. All orders are now packed and checked by the team using handheld tablets and this welcomed transition has now been fully adopted by the CS team.