Welcome
How It Works
1) Login using your email and password at the top of this page.You can join the Hub by filling in your details here www.deanforestfoodhub.org.uk/hub/join
2) Click 'FoodHub Shop' to browse and order from the range of local and non-local produce available. Orders close 11:59pm Tuesday each week.
3) Pay using one of the payment methods - BACS or PayPal. See here for more details: 'Welcome Pack' If this isn't possible for you, contact us before ordering.
4) Pick up your order from your pick-up point on Friday or Saturday (not all pick-up points will have the same opening hours. Please check with your pick-up point).
Note: Check the Order Date when you are ordering. Orders received on a Wednesday-Saturday will not be ready for pick up this week, but for the following week. The date of pick up is displayed on the screen while you are ordering.
What's new?
We have a new edition of The Land in stock - edition 35. Inheritance tax, junk in space and lots of other fascinating articles plus the usual wonderful illustrations.
We're hoping that Wye Organic will be able to continue providing veg boxes, but at least some of what they're selling will be bought in rather than local. Sorry, but they're not going to have a lot from their beds, given the weather! But our wonderful wholesalers, Global Organic, will still be there, doing their best to keep us going.
CALENDARS! They've all gone. Thanks to everyone involved, both those making them & those buying them.
We'd like a few more customers...
We pay some of the people who work with us - people like the drivers! - and the living wage is going up by quite a lot, which is entirely as it should be, given the rate of inflation.
But our prices are not going up as fast - we're still not the cheapest, but the difference between conventional and organic food is shrinking, as the cost of agrichemicals shoots up.
Which leaves us with a problem. We don't want to increase prices or charge our producers a bigger cut, but we do need to find some extra income.
We've found that word-of-mouth is way the best advertising for us. If you like what we do, could you talk to people you know about us and tell them how to join?
Volunteering: If you can come & help us pack the boxes - Wednesday or Friday mornings at Oaklands Park - you can have a 10% discount on an order, each time you pack. Drop us an email if you're interested (deanforestfood@gmail.com). We can sometimes organise shared transport if that's a problem.
If you order & then find you can't pick your order up - particularly if you find you need to self isolate - email us on deanforestfood@gmail.com (or reply to your order confirmation) and let us know. We'll try to organise home delivery if we can.
By the way, you can sign up to get an email reminding you to order on Mondays here . If you don't find it, check your spam folder - but I'm afraid some servers just bounce off automated emails and there's not much we can do about that.