AGRICOLA GIA MA SRL

We grow fruit and vegetables on our own land and sell them direct — to households, grocers and kitchens that want produce picked, not stored.

  • Own fields
  • Picked to order
  • Bulk supply

What a short chain actually means

Most vegetables on a shelf have had a long week. They were cut early so they would survive a cold room, a depot, a lorry and a second cold room, and by the time someone picks them up the clock has been running for days. Nothing about that is dishonest — it is just how long chains work. It is also why a tomato can look right and taste of nothing.

We work the other way round. The field is ours, the planting plan is ours, and we cut against orders rather than against a forecast. If a restaurant asks for courgettes on Tuesday, they are standing in the row on Monday evening. If a grocer takes two crates of plums a week, we know which trees those crates come from. The produce is graded and packed here, by the people who grew it, so there is no step where someone else decides what is good enough.

Seasons are not a style, they are a limit

We only sell what the ground has given us. That means the list changes month by month: leaves and roots when it is cool, soft fruit and fruiting vegetables through the heat, storage crops and late apples and pears at the end. It also means we will tell you honestly when something is three weeks off, or when a crop came in short because of weather. A grower who can supply everything, always, is buying most of it from somebody else.

What you get instead is a straight answer about what is ready now, what is coming, and in what quantity — early enough for a kitchen to write a menu around it or a shop to plan a shelf.

Small enough to talk to, set up to supply

We are a small producer, so you deal with the farm and not a sales desk. But small does not mean we cannot fill a van: we pack to standard crates, keep grades consistent between deliveries, and can hold a repeating weekly order through a season. Households order a box; a grocer orders by crate; a kitchen sets a standing list and adjusts it by the week.

If that is the kind of supply you have been looking for, tell us what you need and how often. The answer comes back from someone who was in the field that morning.

What we do

Plant to a season plan

We decide the sowing calendar around what our regular buyers take, so the crop that matters to you is in the ground in the right quantity, not left to chance.

Harvest against orders

Fruit and vegetables are cut for a named delivery day. Nothing sits in a cold room waiting for a buyer to appear.

Grade and pack on the farm

Sorting, grading and crating happen here. Sizes stay consistent from week to week, which is what a shelf and a kitchen line both need.

Farm-to-table delivery

Boxes for households, crates for grocers, repeating lists for restaurants — delivered on a fixed day so you can plan around it.

Bulk and wholesale supply

Larger volumes of a single crop for retailers, processors and caterers, quoted per season and confirmed before we commit the acreage.

Ways to buy from us

Four arrangements, from one household box to a season's worth of a single crop.

Household produce box

A mixed box of whatever is at its best that week, packed the day it goes out.

  • Seasonal vegetables
  • Fruit when it is in
  • Weekly or fortnightly
  • A note on what is in it

Grocer's crate order

Standard crates by the line, graded for display, repeated on the same day each week.

  • Consistent sizing
  • Standard returnable crates
  • Fixed delivery day
  • Next week's list in advance
Most asked for

Restaurant standing order

A list you set once and adjust by the week, cut the evening before delivery.

  • Adjustable weekly list
  • Cut the day before
  • Advance notice of what is coming
  • Single contact on the farm

Bulk crop supply

Larger volumes of one crop for retailers, processors and caterers, agreed before planting where possible.

  • Single-crop volumes
  • Season agreed in advance
  • Pallet or bulk crate packing
  • Traceable to field and week

Quantities and schedules are agreed per order and per season — send an enquiry and we will quote against what is actually in the ground.

How an order comes together

  1. Tell us what you need

    The crops, roughly how much, how often, and where it goes. A rough list is enough to start with.

  2. We check it against the fields

    We say what is ready now, what is weeks away and what we can plant for you if there is still time in the calendar.

  3. You get a written quote

    Quantities, grades, packing and a delivery day, so you know exactly what arrives and in what form.

  4. We cut, pack and deliver

    Harvested for your delivery day, graded and crated on the farm, then brought to you — and repeated for as long as the season holds.

Tell us what you need

Households, grocers, kitchens and wholesale buyers — same form, same inbox.

  • Someone from the farm reads it, not a call centre.
  • We reply with what is ready now and what is coming.
  • First answer is a straight yes, no, or not until month X.