

Newsletter 22 Nov 2023
Mooli in many of the bags this week. It’s a type of white radish, widely grown in Asia, known as daikon in Japan or bailuobo in China. I like to use it in kimchi, but you can use it like a radish in all kinds of cooked and raw dishes. Lots of interesting recipes to...
Newsletter 15 Nov 2023
Hello! There has been a lot of rain on some of the farms over the last two weeks, one of the wettest autumns in quite a while. At Bagthorpe Farm in Norfolk, they are at the point where they are so waterlogged, they are having to start restricting the amount of carrots...
People Powered Marketing Plan
What's the problem? We have a problem here at Vegbox HQ. We don’t have enough income to plan reliably for the long term, whether on staffing, produce or supporting local initiatives, like Life After Hummus, into which we would like to invest any surplus profits. The...
10 Reasons to Join Kentish Town Vegbox (OR another local organic vegbox scheme)
1. You'll be joining a community With its hyperlocal focus, cooperative status, network of pick-up points and volunteer opportunities, when you sign up to Kentish Town Vegbox you're getting more than just a bag of vegetables once a week. Our members are part of a...
Top 5 spots for out door drinking in Kentish Town
The countdown is on! With just a few days to go until the next stage of lockdown easing on 12th April, pubs and bars across the country are dusting off their outdoor tables and chairs, installing patio heaters, putting up canopies and testing umbrellas. With outdoor,...
Stories behind our collection points!
Where do you pick up your veg bag every week? Our collection points are an important part of our community, each with a special tie to their local area and with a strong dedication to giving something back to their neighbourhood. Wherever it is you pick your bag from,...
We are now an accredited Better Food Trader!
We’re pleased to announce that we are now an accredited Better Food Trader, a great endorsement to our efforts in promoting a more sustainable food system. Better Food Traders is a network of ethical enterprises committed to climate-friendly growing and eating....
2020 Vegbox AGM – and our 2019 annual report
Vegbox held its 2020 AGM on Thursday 18th June 2020, our first held as an online Zoom event. A total of 59 Vegbox members joined us for the meeting: thanks to all who joined and took part. Key outcomes from AGM: We presented our 2019 Annual Report, which you can...
Coming together to secure healthy, fresh food through this current crisis
These are our plans around the coronavirus outbreak. Vegbox will continue to deliver veg and fruit from our partner farms into London over the coming weeks and months. Bringing healthy fresh food into cities is more vital than ever at this time. We are following the...
Ripple Farm
Hello! I thought I’d tell you about Ripple Farm this week. When we set up Vegbox back in 2012, Ripple Farm was the first producer we reached out to. Martin MacKay is the farmer behind the farm. I had been given his mobile number. I rang him up in early summer and...
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