Veg Box – Transition Kentish Town

We’ve launched a community-led organic vegetable box scheme as a spin off from our Food Group. Kentish Town’s local and affordable veg box scheme!

Enjoy a weekly selection of fresh seasonal produce sourced from small-scale, organic farms close to London. Profits from Vegbox will be invested back into our local community.

Vegbox is currently 50% paid staff and 50% volunteer run. As we grow, we can pay more and more of our staff costs. We run the organisation along co-operative principles and pay a flat wage of £12 an hour for all Vegbox staff.

Vegbox has been set up with invaluable support from the pioneering box scheme Growing Communities in Hackney.

We hope in time to invest profits from Vegbox in food growing projects in our local area.

We buy fresh seasonal produce weekly from farms as close to London as practicable, and our members pick up their weekly veg every Wednesday from one of several pick up points round Kentish Town:

The Thanet community centre in West Kentish Town
The Grafton pub on Prince of Wales Road
Flapjacks, the social enterprise cafe on Kentish Town high street
Boma garden centre on Islip Street
Abbey Tavern pub on Kentish Town Road
Kentish Town Health Centre on Bartholomew Road
Gardens Guesthouse, 36 Primrose Gardens
The Gypsy Queen pub on Malden Road
Ruby Violet, the ice cream parlour in Tufnell Park
The Star pub in Dartmouth Park
The Pineapple pub on Leverton Street
Camden Market in a re-purposed giant phone box

Small Veg Bag

Contains 5 varieties of seasonal UK produce, or enough for one person.

£7 per week

Standard Veg Bag

Contains 5 varieties of seasonal UK produce, or enough for one or two people.

£9 per week

Family Veg Bag

Contains 6 varieties of seasonal UK produce, or enough for three or four people.

£14 per week

Fruit Supplement

You can add one type of seasonal UK fruit each week to any of the above bags.

£2.50 per week for the Small bag
£3.50 per week for the Standard or Family bag

We are:

Local and seasonal – we source as locally as possible, and work within the limits of what is seasonally available in England.
A consumer co-operative – our customers are our members. Members attend the AGM and have a say in how the box scheme is run and what we do with any surplus we make in the future.
Low carbon – our members collect their weekly vegetable bag from community pick-up points around Kentish Town, a sociable way of cutting down on pollution and air miles.
Not for profit: any surplus we make will be re-invested in the organisation and in growing projects, not distributed to shareholders.
Fair trade – we’re harnessing the collective buying power of our community and providing a regular outlet and fair price for small-scale organic farmers.
Accessible – we aim to make our weekly organic vegetable bags as affordable as possible.
Low waste – we only order what we need each week and any left over after packing is given to local partners – currently The Fields Beneath cafe, the Calthorpe Project, Ladies and Gentlemen bar, and Camden Homeless Solidarity Space.
Ambitious – by working together, we want to help build an alternative economy in which we support sustainable farms and consume our food more mindfully.