BOX No. 40 · IN THE GROUND MON 28 SEP

PULLED MONDAY.

No.1BEETROOT'Target Ring'PLOT B4 · LIFTED 06:40 · HANA
No.2CARROTS'Red Spindle'PLOT D7 · LIFTED 06:58 · TOMASZ
No.3SQUASH'Ribbed Moss'PLOT C2 · CUT 07:21 · IMKE
No.4CHARD'Flagpole'PLOT A1 · CUT 07:44 · RUTH

One box a week from 34 acres and eleven growers. Nothing in it was out of the ground before Monday, 06:40.

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THE FARM · 34 ACRES · 11 GROWERS

SOIL FIRST
The farm from above at sunrise: long stripes of chard, beetroot and carrot beds, a raked block of bare soil and white crates at the row ends
  • A1 CHARD · RUTH
  • B4 BEETROOT · HANA
  • C2 SQUASH · IMKE
  • D7 CARROTS · TOMASZ
  • F9 RESTING · CLOVER

We farm for the soil first and the crate second. It turns out they want the same things.

Fly over the plots

PLOT MAP · WEEK 40

34 acres, no synthetic sprays, and a quarter of the farm resting under clover every year so the rest can feed you.

ACRES
34
GROWERS
11
RESTING
25%

THE CLOCK · ROW TO DOORSTEP

IN THE GROUND
ON MONDAY.

From row to doorstep in about twenty-five hours, and to supper in thirty-seven. Here is the clock, start to finish.

  1. Muddy hands pulling a bunch of beetroot out of dark wet soil at first light, a white crate waiting in the row behind

    MON · 06:40

    Pulled

    Hana starts at the wet end of B4 while the beets are cold and crisp. Thirty-one bunches before the sun clears the hedge.

  2. Overhead view into a white slatted crate packed with rinsed beetroot, red carrots, a green squash and rainbow chard on a steel bench

    MON · 13:10

    Rinsed & packed

    One cold rinse, no wax, no bag. Into a white crate with the plot number chalked on the end.

  3. A white crate of vegetables on a deep green doorstep beside a black door, low morning sun

    TUE · 07:55

    On your step

    Electric vans, three loops of the city, back by lunch with last week's empty crates stacked in the back.

  4. TUE · 19:30

    Supper

    36 h 50 min
    from soil to supper.

    Roots keep for a fortnight. They just don't have to.

HONEST MATHS.

The same five questions, asked of a supermarket bag and of a Wildroot crate.

THE QUESTION
Out of the ground before you eat it
Miles it travelled
What it came wrapped in
Who grew it
What the soil got back
Supermarket
9 to 14 days
About 1,200
Tray, film, sticker
A supplier code
Tilled, sprayed, left bare
Wildroot
About 37 hours
38, in an electric van
One crate. It comes back.
Hana, plot B4
Compost, cover crops, a rest year

THIS WEEK · PULLED MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER

BOX No. 40

Eight packets, the same box for everyone this week, a new one next Monday. Turn a packet over for the grower's note.

NEXT LIFT · MON 5 OCT 06:40

GROWER · PLOT B4 · ROWS 1–8

Hana has lifted beetroot from the same eight rows for nine seasons. She knows which end of B4 floods, and she picks that end first.

A grower's soil-covered hands cupping a bunch of beetroot against a deep green work jacket
GROWERHANAPLOT B4 · 9 SEASONS31 bunches before 07:30. Favourite: Target Ring.
Muddy black boots in a carrot row at dawn, a hand holding a carrot bunch by its tops beside a half-full white crate
GROWERTOMASZPLOT D7 · 6 SEASONSSows four times a year. Favourite: Red Spindle.

GROWER · PLOT D7 · CARROTS

Tomasz sows carrots by the moon, then checks the moon against a spreadsheet. The carrots don't seem to mind which one he trusts.

COOK THE BOX.

Four suppers that use every crop in this week's crate, leaves and stems included.

  • Black roasting tray of blistered beetroot, red carrots and green squash wedges with herbs

    45 MIN · BEET, CARROT, SQUASH

    Roast roots, green salt

  • Three unlabelled jars of pink beetroot pickle, red carrots and chard stems on a green surface

    20 MIN + 2 DAYS · BEET, CHARD

    Pink pickle jars

  • White plate of paper-thin ringed beetroot and red carrot shavings on a magenta surface

    15 MIN · BEET, CARROT

    Target-ring shavings

  • Charred chard leaves and halved squash in a cast-iron griddle with a bowl of yoghurt

    20 MIN · CHARD, SQUASH

    Charred chard, cold yoghurt

WHAT TO DO WITH IT

  • ROAST
  • PICKLE
  • SHAVE
  • CHAR
  • EAT IT RAW

NEXT LIFT: MONDAY 5 OCTOBER, 06:40

order by sunday 20:00 and the crate is yours on tuesday

  • BEET
  • CARROT
  • SQUASH
  • CHARD
  • PEAS
  • ONION
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