Veg Box People

14/10/2026

Our Local Legend of the Week last week - Kindling Farm broccoli! 🥦😃

Very exciting to have broccoli from the farm for the first time, and just generally exciting to have more organic broccoli from the north-west, given we're not exactly overburdened with it up here!

And it turned out incredibly!

Some of the chonkiest broccoli trees we've ever seen, almost as hench as Chloe in this picture! 😆💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

And nice to have a little morw brassica variety. We love our almost-year-round curly kale, and hardy kohl rabi, but it's definitely nice to make the most of those shorter lived ones like broccoli when they're in season 😊

05/10/2026

🚨Maximum local produce alert! 🚨

This week, 100% of the veg in our Small and Starter bags is from the north-west this week, and 90% in Mediums, 80% in the Larges 😁

Beautiful squash, celeriac, leeks, curly kale, and rainbow chard from our own Kindling Farm in Merseyside, and top quality primo cabbages and kohl rabis, plus potatoes, onions & carrots, from Lyncrof Farm in Lancashire 😍

Local, organic produce - the most delicious, nutritious, the best for you, the best for our communities and economies, and absolutely the best for the living world's ecologies 🤩
🌍🌳☘️🌻🐛🐌🐞🐀🦔🦉🐦🦊

We're out here building the infrastructure of the genuinely sustainable agriculture of the future; and after the hottest, driest summer on record, that already had a devastating impact on food production - the existential importance of this has never been more apparent!

Join the food revolution and sign up for a bag today 🥰

16/09/2026

This weeks local legend - celeriac from Kindling Farm 😁

There's something especially glorious about these celeriac with their celery tops still on 😍

Celeriac is definitely one that a lot of us have to learn to love.
For starters, celery is a bit of an opinion divider flavour-wisr, and while the flavour of the root isn't quite the same as the stalk and leaf version, it's obviously not a million miles off either.
Plus, when you're not familiar with it's appearance, the folkloric Mandrake/Doctor Who Ood-like alien look can provoke a bit of a "What the hell is this creatures and how do I kill it?!" reaction, or, at the very least "What on Earth is this vegetable and how the heck to I cook it?" 😅

But once you realise that once you've scrubbed off any lingering soil, the celeriac slices up and roasts or stews or soups as easily and nicely as anything, that sweet, earthy aromna that accompanies it when it's fresh out the ground, becomes a real thing of beauty 🥰

Enjoy!

10/09/2026

Would you just look at the size of that chard?! You could joust with it! Build a shelter! Make a boat for a harvest mouse! Or, I suppose, cook up some chard spanakopita or something.

There's something magic going on at Kindling Farm there ✨

07/09/2026

08/08/2026

This weeks Local Legend of the Week - aubergines from Lyncrof Farm 😁

While the size of some of the produce we've seen recently has suffered quite severely due to the record-breaking drought, these chonky boi aubergines have thankfully not!🍆

We've had some great stuff from Lyncrof Farm recently, primo & savoy cabbages, pak choi, but aubergines are always a particular treat.

And if you want to make an extra special treat, here's a quick recipe for the best, most decadent version of sticky aubergine we know of...

Chop aubergines into decent sized chunks, then roast till crispy.
Mix finely chopped garlic, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, rice w**e vinegar, maple syrup, and miso paste together, pour on roasted aubergines - return to oven for 5 mins at 200 degrees!

A level of deliciousness that feels illegal 🤤😈

The British aubergine season isn't too long (July - October... certainly not as long as we'd like!) so make the most of these homegrown beauties while you can 😍

01/08/2026

This weeks Local Legend of the Week - batavia lettuces from Kindling Farm 🤩🤩🤩

These stunners are some of the most visually striking produce we've come across - with vibes of cheerlead pom-poms, or extravagant layered ballgowns, there's something extra special about their look 😍

And picked from the fields of Kindling Farm just 24 hours before they arrive at your collection point, they couldn't be fresher!

A perfect base for delicious summer salads, and more than one, 'cause these beauties are flippin' massive! 😅 Packing and transporting them isn't exactly the easiest, but definitely worth it.

And even with this record-breaking heat & humidity we're struggling through, in our escalating climate crisis, they're pretty hardy and last surprisingly well for leafy greens. Though of course keep refrigerated whenever possible, it *is* hot out here! 🥵

Also... introducing yet another local legend... Chloe!
Seen here marvellously modelling these incredible lettuces, Chloe is the latest addition to our veg box team, and we're very happy to have her 🥰

Enjoy!

22/07/2026

They don't call it RAINBOW chard for nowt! 🤩

And the yellow of these yellow courgettes, it's almost *too* yellow, ya know? Like, indecently, obscenely yellow... 💛😂

We've had some really spectacular looking produce coming out of into our bags this week - picked less than 24 hours before it's ready for collection at your chosen Mancunian collection point.

When produce reaches you this fresh, and is picked when properly ripe and ready, it's so much more nutritious when it makes it onto your plate, as well as so much more delicious!

Local, poisen-free, and pushing agroecological food sovereignty foward 🥳

But seriously we've just been a bit mesmerised by the colours this week 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 🥰

We hope you've enjoyed them just as much ☺️

18/07/2026

This week's Local Legend of the Week - spring onions from .harvest 😍

We're incredibly excited to have another local northwest grower supplying to us directly, as .harvest have for the first time this week 😊

And the produce did not disappoint, at all! Just look at those spring onions! Possibly the biggest we've ever seen - really puts the piddling limp little nothingy doo-dahs you get in supermarkets to absolutely shame! 😄

We l-o-v-e spring onions, another great versatile all-rounder that you can stick in almost anything, cooked or raw, that is just instant guaranteed flavour boosting 😃

We also got some beautiful salad bags from .harvest this week, we really couldn't have been more impressed with the produce quality 🙂

And also... introducing the wonderful Anna - pictured here modelling these epic spring onions - who has recently joined our team 👋🥰

Local legends all round!

08/07/2026

This weeks Local Legend of the Week - courgettes from 🥳

Picked straight from the field the day before they make their way to you - it's hard to get fresher, so more nutritious and delicious, more local, or more certifiably organic than this! 🥰

Like when many things come into season in full force, you can end up with a bit of a *glut*, and depending on the produce in question, this can present greater or lesser challenges 😅

But with such a truly versatile ol' reliable as courgette, it's no problem at all.

Stick 'em in your stews and stir-frys and soups, your currys and casseroles, and even cakes!

You can even call them "zucchinis", if you value diversity in your language as much as in your agroecology 😉

Real appreciation for these shiny green beauties 🥒 and for all the farm workers working away in this intense heat to pick them all for us! 👍🏽✊🏼💪🏽

Thanks !