Blog Articles

Welcome to our blog, where we hope you'll find plenty of food for thought!

• Organic Spotlight: de Le Cuona

  We are happy to welcome de Le Cuona to the OTB. A globally renowned purveyor of luxury fabric for interiors who use only the finest natural fibres – flax, cashmere, wool, alpaca - who have created a full range of top-quality, totally organic linen with a high aesthetic and design value and that is beneficial to health and the environment.

• Herbfarmacy: making products that follow the pace of nature

  Using herbs to treat ailments has been a way of life for thousands of years. Herbfarmacy is based in North Herefordshire, on the Welsh Marches, an area steeped in herbal folklore.

• Organic Spotlight: ALBERT BARTLETT

  Albert Bartlett, many will be familiar with this potato brand as a grower and supplier of potatoes and potato products to retailers in the UK.

• Plastic Free July

  It's Plastic Free July, we asked Lizzie Rivera to explore what brands and retailers can do to be part of the solution and not the problem.

• Organic Spotlight: AUSHA

  We welcome AUSHA to the Organic Trade Board, an 100% organic food brand range that includes herbal tea infusions and coffee, herbs and spices, nuts, superfoods and supplements, all sourced for organic growers and plantations in India.

• Ethical, Sustainable & Organic Beauty: discovering Wild Beauty by Rhug Estate

  Following on the article 'Clean beauty or dirty marketing tricks: How can you tell if a beauty brand lives up to its green credentials?' we are now discovering Wild Beauty and how the brand lives up to its green credentials!

• Organic Spotlight GOLDEN VIRGIN®

  Family-run organic natural food products company GOLDEN VIRGIN® Organic source their products from organic Greek farmers and growers and process them using traditional production methods, in harmony with nature and environment.

• Organic and sustainable gift ideas for father's day

  We’ve put together a range of Father’s Day sustainable and organic gift ideas that are better for the planet and won’t break your piggy bank. In addition, we've put some ideas together to suit nearly every father out there.

• Organic Spotlight: Nutcessity

  Nutcessity is a tree nut butter brand that was established in 2016 by Oxford Brookes business graduate, Mike Duckworth.

• World Ocean Day

  This year for World Ocean Day, we want to share our easy to follow organic lifestyle tips to help you cut back on plastic waste in your day-to-day life.

• Clean beauty or dirty marketing tricks: How can you tell if a beauty brand lives up to its green credentials?

  Clean, natural, non-toxic? We ask sustainability journalist Lizzie Rivera for a definitive guide to ethical beauty. She uncovers the reality behind the greenwash...

• Organic Spotlight: SunGleam Organic

  SunGleam Organic is a family run business producing and sourcing organic single-origin nuts for wholesalers, retailers and their own online business, managed by Pierre Roux.