About Us

At Butterby we operate a box scheme, weekly or fortnightly delivery of locally grown fresh produce that will arrive on your doorstep. The contents will vary from week to week but will always contain half a dozen free-range eggs and a selection of seasonal fruit and vegetables which are organically grown. The only exception we make to this is local specialities such as strawberries and raspberries when in season

We are based at Croxdale, just south of Durham City, where our hens live a happy life. During the growing season most of the contents of your box will come from local growers and from the Georgian walled garden at Croxdale Hall which has full organic status. We also have a further 28 acres of land which has just completed its first year of conversion. As from September 2008 that field will be fully converted to organic production. Of the 28 acres available 18 will be growing veg for next year. This will make your box even more local.

However there times when it is necessary to supplement local organic with imported organic produce. This done to maintain variety and quality.

On request, we can also supply local Durham honey and Acorn Dairy organic milk.

Prices

Box Large	£16.00
Box Mini Fruit	£8.50
Box Mini Vegetable	£8.50
Box of Fruit	£12.00
Box Small	£13.00
Dairy Organic Butter	£1.40
Dairy semi-skimmed glass bottle	£0.65
Dairy Semi-skimmed Milk 0.5 litre	£0.65
Dairy Semi-skimmed Milk 1 litre	£0.90
Dairy Semi-skimmed Milk 2 litre	£1.50
Dairy skimmed glass bottle	£0.65
Dairy Skimmed Milk 0.5 litre	£0.65
Dairy Skimmed Milk 1 litre	£0.90
Dairy whole glass bottle	£0.65
Dairy Whole Milk 0.5litre	£0.65
Dairy Whole Milk 1litre	£0.90
Dairy Whole Milk 2 litres	£1.50
Double Cream 10 oz	£1.00
Double Cream 5 oz	£0.70
Extra Eggs	£1.25
Honey	£2.80
Mini Box	£7.50

Delivery and Payment

Our current delivery area is the City of Durham and its outlying towns and villages. Deliveries are made on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, depending where you live, and we would appreciate a week's notice if possible.

Towns in our area. Bishop Auckland, Sedgefield, Newton Aycliffe, Ferryhill, Spennymoor,Tow Law, Lanchester, Consett, Rowlands Gill, Stanley, Beamish, Chester Le Street, Washington, Sunderland, Bournmoor, Great Lumley, Hetton Le Hole, Houghton Le Spring, Seaham, Haswell, Peterlee, Castle Eden and all places in between.

Payment should be made on delivery either by cash, a cheque made payable to Butterby or by electronic transfer, or standing order.

Last year we tried a pilot of stopping our box deliveries from March to June, whilst it was nice not to deliver, we feel we must continue to deliver to maintain customer contact. This year boxes will continue through that period.

Boxes

5 MAIN BOX TYPES

LARGE BOX

Contains 1/2doz eggs, potatoes, carrots, onions as standard plus 5-6 items of seasonal vegetables and fruit.

SMALL BOX

Contains 1/2doz eggs, potatoes, carrots, onions as standard plus 4-5 of seasonal vegetables and fruit.

MINI BOX

Contains 6-7 staple items but no eggs

FRUIT ONLY

Contains atleast 6 different fruits and uses the same cardboard box as the small box.

MINI FRUIT

Contains 4-5 basic fruits

Some customers alternate their boxes

eg Large on week one, a fruit on week two

This Week

20/4/08 Large box Potatoes- Lincolnshire Leeks- Yorkshire Carrots- Yorkshire Onions- Holland Cabbage - Yorkshire Mushrooms- Cambridgeshire White Sprouting Broccoli - Yorkshire Swede- Yorkshire Mixed Sprouts- Herefordshire Apples - Holland Eggs -Butterby

Small Box - As above no leeks Mini box - potatoes, onions, carrots, Cabbage, mushrooms Fruit box - Apples eaters, Banana, Oranges, pears

Honey Honey supplies will resume after ther oilseed rape crop in the fields has finished flowering. This is because this is the first available large scale nectar source that is available to the bees.