North Aston Organics: Summer?

Thursday 3 July 2014

Summer?

It's starting to feel like summer - lots of holiday cancellations just when the lovely summer veg starts to come in!

As well as new potatoes, carrots and onions, this week we have broad-beans (big pods) which you shell and either flat beans or round beans, both 'mange tout' varieties. Most of our beans and peas are the latter but broad-beans are one of the few that you do need to pod (take out the beans and discard the pod). For those of you familiar with broad beans this might seem obvious but ever since I had a complaint about those 'tough' beans, I don't take anything for granted!

We also have garlic, lettuce, and courgettes or cucumbers.

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Organic Vegetable Box Scheme

North Aston is situated just south of Deddington, roughly half way between Oxford and Banbury. Our main vegetable fields overlook the Cherwell Valley with a market garden in the village itself. The business was established in 1998 and we are committed to supplying the local area through our box scheme.

Every Saturday morning from 9:00 until 12:30, North Aston Organics also has a stall in Deddington Market Place underneath the historic market building and once a month attends Deddington Farmers’ Market (currently 4^th Saturday each month).

One of the advantages of signing up with a truly local box scheme is that you get very fresh veg often harvested on the day of your delivery and we hold farm walks each year for customers to come and look around.

We offer a year round box scheme and are licensed to buy in produce from other growers if we need additional supplies. The vegetable boxes contain potatoes, onions and carrots each week and 5 other items according to what’s in season and ready for harvest. There are four sizes of box: half, small, medium and large, which cost, when collected from one of our central drop off points, £6.00, £9.50, £13.50 and £18.00 .

As a service to our box customers we can provide organic fruit bags in two sizes(£5.00/£6.00) which contains apples, oranges and bananas (fairly traded) every week plus two other items such as pears, clementines, avocado, grapefruit or kiwi. All the produce we supply is organic. We have a NO AIR FREIGHT POLICY.

Our boxes are delivered weekly on Thursdays and Fridays mostly to central drop off points around the area. If you would like to try a box or if you have any questions, please contact us via our website.