GO BEYOND FOUR SEASONS
Each fruit and vegetable has its own season, with subtle shifts that happen every day. Follow their microseasons to unlock flavour at every stage.
In season today
The first harvests. Not yet available in abundance or fully developed, this is the time to get inspired by new flavour combinations.
Baby Leeks
Grower
Duncan
Location
Ormskirk, Lancashire
Seasonality
All Year Round
Beetroot (Badger Flamed)
Blue Meat Radishes
Borettane Onions
Bramley Apples
Carrots (Sandy, Purple Haze, White Satin, Yellowstone & Ruby)
Collard Greens
Comice Pear
Crab Apples
Edible Flowers (Mixed, Viola, Cornflower)
Golden Delicious Apples
Granny Smith Apples
Green Kale
Iberiko Tomatoes
Kalibos Cabbage
Leafy Celeriac
Madernassa Pear
Mushroom Mix (Girolle, Trompette, Chanterelle)
Purple Kale
Purple Sprouting Broccoli
Radicchio Chioggia
Radicchio di Treviso
Radicchio di Verona
Red Amaranth
Red Dandelion
Red Meat Radishes
Red Williams Pear
Savoy Cabbage
Shoots & Cresses – Tagete, Basil, Komatsuna (see app for all)
Spring Onions
Walnuts Dry
White Onions
PEAK SEASON BOX
Our Sourcing Team have selected the nine varieties tasting their best right now. From familiar favourites to lesser known varieties, these are our picks this week.
Yukon Gold Potatoes – The Potato Shop, Kent, UK
Sandy Carrots – François, Dunkirk, France
Parsnips – Duncan, Lancashire, UK
Delica Pumpkin – Oscar, Mantua, Italy
Roscoff Onions - Co-operative, Brittany, France
Pink Radicchio - Veneto, Italy
Rainbow Chard - Luca, Savona, Italy
Black Iberiko Tomatoes - José, Almería, Spain
Leafy Clementines - Ciro, Puglia, Italy
Goldrush Apples - Matthias and Sophie; Marc and Vincent, Toulouse, France
Sicilian Pomegranate - Marco, Marsala, Italy
Featured This Week 20/12 - 27/12
EARLY
TURNIP – PARDAILHAN
Pardailhan, Hérault
Dec-Jan
Pardailhan Turnip is now grown by only a handful of producers, who reserve their harvests for local markets. Through our presence on the ground, we've been able to gain access to it, from Stanislas in Occitanie. This very special heritage variety is the product of a rainy landscape and clay soil that retains a high amount of water – ideal for water-loving turnips. With mellow, sweet but hearty flesh, this is a prized crop for the region, and a rare turnip for this time of year. The season may be quite short, until January only.
Stanislas, a retired grower who ran his family farm for three decades, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of this emblematic crop, which almost disappeared following a lull in local agriculture after the Second World War. He is one of very few growers who continue to nurture it, and those who do tend to sell it only in the area at markets – our presence on the ground in Toulouse, however, allows us to access it, and widen its reach.
PEAK
BROCCOLI – PURPLE SPROUTING
Ombersley, Worcestershire
Sep-Apr
Martin and Ted have had a very solid year so far with their Purple Sprouting Broccoli, and the outlook remains good. Temperatures in Ombersley seem to be consistently above freezing, allowing these tight heads on tender, leafy stalks to thrive.
This father and son team grow using seed originally saved by Martin’s uncle, who would move his best performing plants into polytunnels. Unlike hybridised varieties, produced in artificial growing conditions year-round, these seeds are primed for the Worcestershire climate and soil. To further ensure quality, each stalk is hand picked, with anything that looks woody or thin left behind. Even when conditions are less optimal, and yield is affected, they maintain these standards.
LATE
KIWI – RED
Gioia Tauro, Calabria
Nov-Dec
Our Italian Red Kiwi has had a short but impactful season – this variety has less of the acidity of a green Hayward Kiwi, and more of a bold, sugar-forward taste. Though our Golden and Hayward Kiwis will be with us for much longer – until February and May respectively – the Red looks to be winding down at the end of the month. This surprising variety is worth trying while you can.
Red Kiwis are grown in Gioia Tauro, Calabria by a co-operative who specialise in kiwis. The conditions in the region really allow the variety to flourish – there is sandy soil, an abundance of water, and a mild but sometimes humid climate.
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Go beyond four seasons
Each fruit and vegetable has its own season, with subtle shifts which happen every day. Follow their microseasons to unlock flavour at every stage.
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Make your diet diverse
Our growers work with varieties chosen for quality and nutrition, not yield. By selecting their crops you keep heritage seeds in play, add to ecosystem biodiversity and preserve unique flavours.
PEAK SEASON BOX
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