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.
Mangoes
Grower
Pietro
Location
Messina, Sicily
Seasonality
September - October
Baby Leeks
Baby Sweetcorn
Beetroot (Badger Flamed)
Borettane Onions
Bourjasotte Noire Figs
Bramley Apples
British Cime Di Rapa
Carrots (Sandy, Purple Haze, White Satin, Yellowstone & Ruby)
Cavolo Nero
Centennial Grapes
Ceps
Cobnuts
Crab Apples
Crown Prince Squash
Cylindra Beetroot
Fragola Grapes
Green Kale
Kalibos Cabbage
Lychees
Muscat Grapes
Onion Squash
Purple Kale
Red Dandelion
Roscoff Onions
Shoots & Cresses – Tagete, Basil, Komatsuna (see app for all)
Sweetcorn
Thai Basil Cress
Victoria Plums
White Onions
Wild Scottish Girolles
PEAK SEASON BOX
Our Sourcing Team have selected the 9-10 varieties tasting their best right now. From familiar favourites to lesser known ones, these are our picks this week.
Courgette Round - Yellow - Calabria, Italy
Bean - Coco de Bretagne - Brittany, France
Chard - Rainbow - Hampshire, UK
UK Heirloom Tomatoes - UK
Lettuce - Devil's Ear - Wales, UK
Onions - Dry Tropea - Calabria, Italy
Potato - Early - Charlotte - Wales, UK
Peach - Amarillo - Lleida, Spain
Passion Fruit - Seville, Spain
Apple - Seasonal British - Sussex, UK
Featured This Week 05/09 - 12/09
EARLY
CARROTS - SANDY, PURPLE, WHITE & YELLOW
Dunkirk, France
Sep - Mar
François’ Carrots are grown less than five kilometres from the Dunkirk coast, where sandy-silt soils, rich in minerals and nourished with shoreline algae, produce ramrod-straight roots with thin skins and a tender, coreless texture. Left unwashed, with a fine layer of soil still clinging to their skins, they keep their freshness for longer, protected just as they were in the field.
This season brings White, Yellow and Purple varieties, with Red following in a couple of weeks. Alongside Carrots, François also grows Purple Jerusalem Artichokes, Leeks, Radishes, and even Badger Flame Beetroot for our chefs in Paris.
We’ve worked with François for more than a decade, during which he has dedicated himself to reintroducing rare varieties, safeguarding biodiversity and reviving lost flavour.
Unlike commercial growers who harvest in bulk and store crops for months in cold rooms, François leaves his plants in the ground, lifting them fresh each day to order. The approach is labour-intensive and reduces yield, but it ensures every carrot arrives vibrant, nutritionally dense, and true to the soil it was grown in.
PEAK
TOMATO - HONEYCOMB
Cornwall, England
Jul - Oct
At Mora Farm, Oli has been tending this season’s Honeycomb Tomatoes, and the results are showing. “Plants have been leaned and lowered twice now, with some vines in excess of 12ft long,” he explains. With a dry summer, the plants are looking healthier than ever.
Taste and quality remain the highlights of this variety. As autumn draws in, fruit ripens more slowly, and Oli emphasises the importance of careful harvesting: “An unripe autumn Honeycomb is acidic and best left to mature on the plant.” He’s confident the harvest will continue into early to mid-October.
Once the tunnels are cleared, they’ll be fed with compost and replanted with overwintering Mustard Greens and Chard, setting the stage for an early spring harvest. Looking ahead, Oli hopes to experiment with getting the first fruit in June next year.
Mora Farm is a brilliant example of making positive change happen at scale; one of our key aims. With our logistical and financial investment, Oli has been able to diversify and increase production of exceptional fruit and vegetables while remaining committed to environmentally conscious farm management.
Growing in tunnels and open fields, he has a wealth of produce coming off the farm at this time of year including Mixed Beans, Heirloom and Honeycomb Tomatoes, Beetroots and Patty Pans.
LATE
MELON - SUN SWEET & HONEY MOON
Lombardy, Italy
May - Sep
We’re into the final weeks of Oscar’s Honey Moon and Sun Sweet Melons. As autumn gradually takes hold, the last harvests are coming off the vines now. Warm days and cooler nights have carried their flavour right through to the end of the season, keeping the fruit sweet and fragrant.
Alongside, Oscar has also been dedicating time to his Delica Pumpkins, which he’s been busy curing in the sun. More on these to follow soon.
Every summer, the industry hotly anticipates Oscar’s Sun Sweet and Honeymoon Melons – a grower we’ve been working with since 2015 and whose name is synonymous with quality.
Slow growth, combined with considered cultivation methods – from thinning plants, to raising beds and even protecting them with sunscreen during the hottest time of the year – makes for some of the most exceptional produce we source. These melons have firm yet buttery flesh saturated with undiluted juice.
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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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