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Custom Veg Box — Build Your Own

£4.00

Build your own veg box from live farm stock. £4 configurator fee plus £20 minimum produce spend (£24 total). Please read the full product description before ordering.

SKU: veg-box-custom Category:

The £4 charge unlocks the Custom Box system, allowing you to hand-pick your produce instead of receiving a standard pre-packed selection. Because every box is built individually to your choices — rather than packed in bulk — it takes more time to harvest, plan, and pack.

Unless you’re planning on collecting an empty box (which we don’t recommend! 😉), you’ll need to add produce to complete your order.


Take full control of your veg box with our Choose Your Own Custom Box option.

This product unlocks access to your personal Box Configurer inside your account area, where you can hand-pick exactly what goes into your veg box from our live farm shop stock.


How It Works

  1. Add this Custom Box to your basket

  2. Complete checkout (£4 box fee)

  3. Log in to your account

  4. Go to My Account → Box Configurer

  5. Build your box from available produce

You’ll be choosing from whatever is currently being harvested and in stock — meaning your box always reflects what’s fresh on the farm right now.


Minimum Spend

To complete your Custom Box you must add:

  • Minimum £20 of produce from the shop

  • Plus the £4 Custom Box fee paid at checkout

Total minimum box value: £24


Box Rules

  • Maximum 2 of any single item

  • Stock changes weekly based on harvests and seasonality

  • You’re welcome to build your box above the minimum value


Cut-Off Time

All Custom Box selections must be completed by Wednesday — 18:00.

This allows us time to harvest, plan, and pack your produce fresh for your delivery or collection slot. Any boxes not finalised by the cut-off may be packed on your behalf from available farm produce.


Your box. Your choice. Straight from our fields.

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Choose Your Price

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Prices based on our most popular box size (Couple's Box)

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Solidarity Price

£10.50+

For those who need support

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Standard Price

£15

True cost of growing

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Supporter Price

£18+

Helps subsidize others

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💰 Financial Transparency

Here's exactly where your money goes

📊 Our Annual Farm Budget

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Farmer Wages £45,000

2 full-time farmers (fair wage goal)

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Seeds & Compost £2,000

Scales with box size

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Land & Utilities £4,800

Rent, water, electricity

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Equipment £4,000

Maintenance, repairs, fuel

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Packaging £200

Boxes (delivery billed separately)

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Insurance & Admin £700

Insurance, accounting

Total Annual Budget: £56,700

🧮 The Math Behind Our Prices

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100 members

Our target community

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48 weeks/year

Deliveries

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£11.81 break-even

Minimum to survive

£56,700 ÷ 100 members ÷ 48 weeks = £11.81 break-even

£10.50 solidarity minimum = We take a small loss to help you

£11.81 = Break-even (farm survives, no fair wages yet)

£15 standard = Minimum wage for farmers

£20 supporter = Fair wage + helping subsidize others

Above £20 = Really helping both farm and those in need

⚠️ Important: Our £45,000 farmer wages = £21.60/hour GROSS (before tax, pension, holidays).

Take-home is closer to £15-16/hour - barely a living wage for skilled agricultural work.

This system relies on honesty:

Below £11.81 = we subsidize you (that's okay if you need the help). At £15 = minimum wage. At £20+ = you enable solidarity pricing for those in genuine need. Please choose based on what you can truly afford.

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Solidarity Price: £10.50 - £14

For those who need support right now

  • 💚 Unemployed, on benefits, or low income
  • 💚 Single parents managing tight budgets
  • 💚 Students, pensioners on fixed income
  • 💚 Facing temporary financial hardship

You get the EXACT SAME box as everyone else - same quantity, quality, variety, and freshness. Zero difference.

Made possible by supporters. When your situation improves, you can pay it forward too.

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Standard Price: £15

This is what it actually costs to grow your food

£5.50 → Farmer wages
£3.20 → Seeds & supplies
£2.50 → Land & utilities
£2.30 → Equipment
£1.50 → Delivery & admin
= £15.00 total

What "fair wage" means: £21.60/hour GROSS (before tax, pension, holidays). Take-home closer to £15-16/hour.

If you can afford £15, this is the right choice. It keeps the farm sustainable.

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Supporter Price: £18 - £25+

Pay it forward - your extra helps others

£18 per box

£3 extra subsidizes someone on solidarity price

£20 per box

Builds emergency fund for crop failures

£25+ per box

Farm improvements, free food bank boxes - and the farmers might actually afford a pint!

Every £1 above standard directly helps someone else access organic food. That's the solidarity promise.

Thanks for Supporting local growers