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Shillingford Organics
'in tune with nature'
Vegetable Box Bulletin
November 2009
CONTENTS
1. NOVEMBER EXTRAS
2. CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR BOX DELIVERIES
3. EMMA'S GINGERBREAD
4. FIGGY'S CHRISTMAS PUDDINGS
5. QUARTERLY STATEMENTS
6. CROP & OTHER NEWS
1. November Extras
Shillingford Organics Eggs: £1.60 per half dozen
Milva Potatoes : £3.00 for 5kg bag
Milva Potatoes: £7.00 for 12.5 Kg bag
Laydilay Organic
Mayonnaise: £2.20 per 175ml jar
2. Christmas & New Year Box Deliveries
Deliveries in the Christmas week will be one day earlier than the normal delivery day, so please bear this in mind when ordering.
Christmas Week:
Thursday boxes delivery on Wednesday 23rd Dec
Friday boxes delivery in the morning of Thursday 24th Dec
New Year Boxes:
Thursday boxes delivery on Wednesday 30th Dec
Friday boxes delivery on Thursday 31st Dec
Emma's Bread: Is not available in the New Year Week. Therefore, if you want extra bread please remember to order. Deadline for Bread & Gingerbread orders - 15th December.
3. Emma's Gingerbread
Emma's very popular, delicious Gingerbread is now available to order through the box scheme. Traditional recipe with spelt and oatmeal base, black treacle, golden syrup and pieces of crystallized ginger. Three week shelf life, 8" square wrapped in waxed greaseproof paper. £6.00 each.
4. Figgy's Christmas Puddings
Now available to order through the box scheme. Deadline for orders - 7th December.
400g (3-4 people): £10
600g (6 people): £14
1kg (8-10 people): £19
5. Quarterly Statements
Your quarterly statements will be due out at the beginning of December. There are still some unusual payment references, which means some accounts cannot be fully reconciled, if you think this may apply to you please contact Bridget in the Admin Office as soon as possible.
Payments received after the statements are printed will not show.
6. Crop & Other News
I always think of November as the wettest month of the year and it has certainly started that way. Fortunately, October was dry and we harvested all the potatoes easily and what an incredible crop, with several tubers over 1Kg in weight. We store most of the potatoes in a commercial cold store at Pocombe Bridge until the New Year.
We have also harvested all our squash and these are stored in a dry place on the farm. Squash storage can be depressing in that unless you have a super duper, temperature, and humidity controlled store, inevitably several are lost. In fact they store as well as anywhere in a dry room in the house.
The exceptionally mild October has meant we have been able to harvest salad crops from outdoors through October. Now we are harvesting lettuce and salad from the tunnels. My only concern is that although the crop looks fantastic it is possibly too far advanced, meaning we have an abundance now, but may well run short later in the year.
by Martyn Bragg
28th July 2010
This week's box will
contain items from
the selection below:
New Season Potatoes
New Season Carrots
Onions
Lettuce
French Beans
Tomatoes & Basil
Spinach or Beetroot
Courgettes
Cucumber
Green Pepper
Coriander
NB: Due to availabilty box contents may vary
The boxes may not always contain the same number of items as shown in the list.
However, this is more likely to apply to the mini and small boxes.
Make up crops may vary from the list !
