Three rules we have never broken
We visit before we buy
Someone from the market has stood in every grove, mill and kitchen on this site. If we have not been, it is not listed, however good the sample was.
We buy the whole lot
A single harvest, paid for up front, at a price the producer sets. It is why some things sell out in March and do not come back until November.
We never reformulate
If a producer changes their recipe to hit our price, we stop stocking it. Nothing on this shelf has been adjusted to survive a supermarket.