Getting organic fruit and vegetables delivered in London has never been easier. As more people want to eat healthy food grown without chemicals, organic veg boxes have become a top choice. They offer straight-from-the-farm produce, flexible delivery, and support for local growers.
Wondering if they’re for you? This guide covers the best organic veg boxes in London, how they work, and why signing up is a smart move.
If out, you can leave boxes in a safe place (a good idea for homes with pets, as some produce like onion, garlic and leeks are not safe near animal friends). Read our post on food safety for people and pets.
It’s best to just bin allium scraps (garlic, onion, leeks, shallots, chives) and citrus/rhubarb scraps, as acids could harm compost creatures. Also read our posts on pet-friendly gardens (includes flowers to avoid near animal friends) and wildlife-friendly gardens.
Why Choose an Organic Veg Box?
Organic veg boxes are good for your health and the planet. Organic farming avoids harsh chemicals and supports soil health, so your fruit and veg are naturally grown and kinder to the earth. Buying a box from UK farmers cuts food miles and supports rural jobs.
With the range of box sizes and flexible deliveries, there’s little waste, and you can skip or pause any week. Many providers pack with little or no plastic, cutting back on landfill. You also get to enjoy flavour-packed veg picked at its best.
How Do Veg Boxes Work?
Most services let you pick a box size and type, then deliver it weekly or fortnightly. Some allow you to add extras, like free-range eggs or bread. You usually set up an online account, pick your plan, and update it as you go. If you’re away, most boxes let you pause or skip weeks.
Some require collection from a local hub, but most now offer doorstep delivery across London. Payments are charged per box at the time of delivery, so there’s no big upfront cost.
Reasons to Use a Veg Box
Veg boxes save time and offer better quality than supermarket fruit and veg. You support local growers, try a wider range of food, and eat more in tune with the seasons. Most come with recipe ideas, so meals stay exciting.
No more forgotten veg bags at the back of the fridge—everything is fresh, tasty, and ready to use. Boxes help make home cooking easier, healthier, and eco-friendly without hassle.
Abel & Cole
Abel & Cole has been delivering organic food for over 30 years. Their weekly veg boxes let you pick from classic, seasonal, or custom options. All their produce meets strict organic standards, and they work with small farms across the UK.
You can add bread, Rerooted organic oat drink or fruit with just a click. Abel & Cole is known for eco-friendly packaging and a skip-anytime policy, so you’re never locked in. Deliveries run across London, making it easy to get quality organics right to your door.
Growing Communities (with pick-up points)
Broccoli and Pea Soup (The Veg Space)
Growing Communities is a fantastic veg box scheme for people living in East London (Hackney, Haringey, Bethnal Green and Bow) or South London (Brixton, Herne Hill, Peckham, Dulwich and Forest Hill). Everything here is designed to be super-affordable (boxes start from £10) and they use pick-up points to keep prices low, if wished.
You can pause deliveries if you go on holiday, and your purchase helps to support local farmers within a 50 mile radius. As a comparison, most major supermarkets ferry produce (even from local farmers) hundreds of miles to central distribution houses, then ferries them back again (which also cause more fossil fuels and road traffic).
Each £1 you spend with Growing Communities generates £3.70 of value for you, your farmers and your planet. That’s a triple-win! And this social enterprise ends up creating a more resilient food system that is not knocked by ‘shocks to the system’ like rising oil prices, due to turbulent politics.
Farmers working with Growing Communities receive 50% of the price you pay – that’s three times more than most supermarkets pay. And as an organic farm, there’s a lot more wildlife to pollinate the food, and enjoy a few freebies for themselves!
There are various veg bags to choose from. There are small and large bags, fruit-only bags and ones without potatoes (who doesn’t want spuds?!) There are also 30 collection points, kindly hosted by local community and business hubs. It also offers wholesale produce for local shops, schools, restaurants and hotels.
Growing Communities also works with Hackney Food Bank where you can donate the value of your veg box, if you go away (rather than pause the delivery). So far, this has raised £75,000 of free food for local people (demand for food has recently surged by 75%).
As many food banks can’t accept fresh food due to lack of fridges and space, the produce donated is more root veggies and apples, over salad so it lasts longer in the warehouse.
Sutton Community Farm (Also for Surrey)
Vegan leek potato soup (Full of Plants)
Sutton Community Farm is the ideal switch, to ‘cook your way to happiness’, delivering fresh organic fruit and veg to households in South London and Surrey. As well as being good for you, the soil and native wildlife, buying your fresh produce here supports local farmers, and keeps money circulating in local economies.
Started by a local environmental charity, today this community interest company delivers over 500 Veg boxes each week, growing over 15 tones of fresh veggies each year. Around 80 volunteers also help out, ensuring that food miles are kept local and organic, providing affordable good food to all.
You can order a box each week (and exclude up to three veggies if you really don’t like Brussels sprouts – why not?!) and you can also donate veg to local causes, to help those in food poverty.
The food is grown on a seven acre site in South London (in the Sutton borough) using open fields and polytunnels. Any food not sourced from here is as local as possible (unless you are ordering bananas!)
Annual crops are mostly grown along with fruit trees and buses, and in summer there are flowers for sale.
An Agroecological Farm (what?!)
Sutton Community Farm runs on agroecology principles, which basically is a fancy word for combining ecology and agriculture. This farm has no livestock, instead focusing on growing organic fruits and veggies, without artificial chemicals that cause run-off (a big cause of sewage pollution, so much in the news today).
Instead, these farmers use crop rotation (planting different crops each year). This works a bit like avoiding the same antibiotics, by keeping soil healthy through adding organic matter and growing green manures. Good soil means good food!
This also encourages wildlife pollinators like bees, butterflies and bats, healthy insect populations and helps restore habitats for native wildlife. There are also ponds to help restore habitats for frogs and dragonflies (both are ideal to eat up unwanted guests, without chemicals).
Humans are looked after too (!) with good wages and care.
Over 40 Fruits and Vegetables!
Choose from over 40 types of fruits and vegetables, delivered in reusable jute bags and cardboard punnets, which can be returned the next week. You can order for home delivery, or pick-up-points means food is more affordable, as it saves vans having to drive around delivering to different homes.
There are many types of boxes to choose from (small to large, just fruit or mixed boxes). A typical box may include locally-grown:
- Leeks
- Potatoes
- Spinach
- Cauliflower
- Squash
- Pears
- Plums
Organic Veg Boxes for Kentish Town)
Kentish Town Veg Box is an organic box scheme in London, run for and by the local community. It aims to offer affordable veg bags (with optional fruits like rhubarb) in a variety of different sizes bags. Surplus profits are reinvested.
This produce is affordable. It may not be as cheap as supermarket produce, but that’s because their farmers receive around 60% of each pound spent, rather than 10% like most that have to sell to big stores.
Bags contain the basics (onions, carrots, mushrooms etc) along with various other veg, depending on the bag chosen. You can collect from pick-up points (more affordable) or choose to have home delivery, for a small surcharge.
A typical bag will contain:
- Onions
- Rainbow carrots
- Kale and Cavolo Nero
- Aubergines (grown in Kent, not Spain!)
- Lettuce
- Purple-sprouting broccoli
- Savoy cabbage
- Basil (from London, not Italy!)
- French beans
You can can also choose to donate to its solidary fund, which gives discounts on bags to people on low incomes. Camden and Islington now have some of the highest inequality in income in England. So with the cost of living crisis, donations are very much appreciated.
Riverford Farmers (also nationwide)
Riverford delivers organic fruit and veg from their family-run farms straight to London homes, and nationwide (just enter your postcode). Their boxes come in different sizes, with set or seasonal options, and you can add extras like salad or bread.
Riverford stands out for their strict commitment to organic farming and farm-fresh taste. All produce is picked to order, often delivered within 48 hours of harvest. They don’t tie you into a contract—pause anytime or skip a week if you’re away.
This company is at the forefront of a nationwide campaign, to ensure that farmers get fair prices for the food they sell to supermarkets (and don’t get shafted by cancelling orders at the last minute etc).
The Food Assembly (community hubs)
The Food Assembly is a community-led service linking customers with local farmers. Order your organic veg box online, then collect it from a nearby pick-up point or have it delivered, depending on the location. You can open an assembly at a local community hall or school, and food is delivered to a local collection point.
Everything is grown or made by small producers around your area, so by ordering, you help support independent growers. Products change weekly based on what’s in season, making it a great way to try something new and keep meals exciting.
Oddbox (not organic, but wonky!)
Oddbox isn’t always organic, but rescues ‘wonky’ fruit and veg that shops reject. From dinky apples to curvy courgettes, everything is delivered in plastic-free packaging and regular donations to charity, for each order. Pricing is clear and there’s no fuss, if you wish to pause deliveries.
Every week, you get a surprise box of organic picks, all grown locally or from nearby farms in Europe. Their service focuses on sustainability, with plastic-free packaging. Now nationwide, delivery is overnight, so you can wake up to fresh veg on your doorstep!
