THE VEGETABLE BOX SCHEME

Each week we pack a selection of fresh, seasonal produce into three sizes of box. Potatoes and carrots appear virtually every week and onions most weeks. The remainder of the box is made up of various items depending on the time of year: for example, salad crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and peppers in summer, and greens and root crops in winter, such as cabbages, leeks, Brussels sprouts and swedes.

LARGE BOX

Example Box Contents In Winter

MEDIUM BOX

Potatoes

Carrots

Onion

Swede

Curlygreen

Leeks

Cabbage

Squash

Cauliflower

Parsnips

White Sprouting

Pak Choi

Beetroot

(Contents vary each week)

	Potatoes Carrots Onion Swede Curlygreen Leeks Cabbage Squash Pak Choi Parsnips Beetroot

Generally speaking, the larger the box size, the more items you get and the larger the portion. Crops grown for other times of the year usually include broad beans, Brussels sprouts, runner beans, celeriac, celery, chard, Chinese cabbage, courgettes, cucumbers, fennel, kohl rabi, lettuce, marrows, mizuna, salad onions, parsley, peppers, radish, rhubarb, rocket, spinach, sweet corn, turnips and tomatoes.

The majority of the box contents are grown ourselves, although we currently buy in (from other organic growers) some of our carrots and onions (when our own crops run out). It is our aim eventually to grow everything but the box ourselves!

How The Box Scheme Works

Packing takes place on Monday for Tuesday delivery.

The local boxes are either (1) delivered to collection points (see below), (2) delivered “door to door” if you live in Bishops Lydeard, Cotford St. Luke, Norton Fitzwarren and most of Taunton, or (3) collected from the farm (by order only, we do not have a farm shop!).

Unlike some box schemes, you are not committed to having a certain number of boxes in a given time period. As long as we know, you can have whatever size of box you like, however often you like!

The boxes themselves are collapsible and should be returned each week for re-use. They are expensive, costing us up to 60 pence each, but quite apart from cost it makes sound ecological sense to use them as many times as possible.

Prices: LARGE BOX - £12

MEDIUM BOX - £9.50

SMALL BOX - £7

How To Order a Box:

There are two ways of ordering a box:

(1) Door to door deliveries and farm collections should be ordered by phone (01823 432488) or by email: Keith@stoneage-organics.co.uk Please order by Saturday night for delivery/collection the following Tuesday.

(2) Collection points: All ordering and payment is done via the collection points, so if you are interested in ordering a box please telephone your nearest collection point from the list below.

List of Collection Points

Oake Organics	Oake	01823 461217
Roger	Taunton	01823 277596
Prockters Farm Shop	West Monkton	01823 413427