Abel & Cole deliver ethically-sourced organic food to your door. Our range includes fresh fruit and veg from small independent growers, British organic meat, dairy, bread, wine, sustainably-sourced fish and much more! Delivery is free of charge.
We work with over 60 British farms, including many who would be too small to have their own box schemes, buying as much British fruit and veg as the season provides. At the peak of the British harvest, that means almost everything is British. When UK farms aren’t harvesting, and for things we can’t get here (like olive oil and bananas), we go abroad. Our principles remain the same: we work directly and fairly with producers, stay as close to the UK as possible and never air freight. Produce is then packed centrally in Hampshire and distributed from our regional depots in our biodiesel vans.
We've started getting a mixed box from Abel and Cole since our previous suppliers emigrated to Australia. There are a number of good features about the way Abel and Cole do things, being a bigger organisation than other schemes they probably have the economies of scales to do this - e.g. allowing preferences. They also have very friendly telephone staff (for example when our card expired and thus they didn't get paid they were polite and helpful and not accusatory!). The main reason for rating them as good and not excellent is that we have not found a box size that fits us 100% perfectly, and we sometimes find that there are too many of one type of thing - for example for much of the autumn we were drowning in onions... but generally they are good to very good. Nice website too.
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RachelE (22.12.08)
