Simple as 1, 2, 3

How it works

Join as a member, and every Wednesday a bag of freshly harvested UK fruit and veg arrives at a collection point near you. Here's the whole journey, from field to kitchen.

1. Choose

Pick your bag

Become a member and choose from four bag sizes, with or without a weekly fruit supplement added to your bag. Membership is open to everyone. See the bags and prices.

2. We pack

Fresh from the farm

Our farmers harvest early in the week and deliver to our packing yard at The Thanet Community Centre, where the team packs everything into reusable bags on Wednesday morning.

3. Collect

From a point near you

We text you when your bag reaches your local collection point on Wednesday. Collect it by Friday, and return your reusable bag from the week before.

Weighing pears on the scales at the Vegbox packing yard

A member collecting their red Mega bag of veg

Paying for your bag

Payment is by weekly Direct Debit through GoCardless, a secure online payment system – you set the mandate up once when you sign up, and that's it. The payment goes out on Monday, ahead of the Wednesday when you collect your bag.

If money is tight

Fresh fruit and veg shouldn't be a luxury. We offer a low-income discount on your weekly bag – no questions asked, just tick the box when you sign up – and we accept Healthy Start vouchers. The discounts are paid for by our member-created Solidarity Fund, which anyone can donate to.

Going on holiday?

If you don't need a bag, let us know by 5pm on Tuesday of the week before and we'll pause your payments for the weeks you take off. We need a week's notice because that's when we order from the farms – we order exactly the right amount so nothing is wasted.

Missed the deadline? Please still tell us you're away, and we'll make sure your veg is redistributed – uncollected bags go to local community food schemes and food banks.

Collection points

Bags are delivered on Wednesday to over twenty collection points across Kentish Town, Camden, Islington and beyond. Find your nearest on the map, and pick it when you sign up.

Can't get to a collection point? For an extra £3 we can home-deliver your bag via our partner bike couriers, Neko Home Delivery. And if you're unable to leave home to collect, talk to us – we'll make sure you get your veg.

A small wooden Vegbox collection shed with a padlocked door and a poster on the front — One of our collection point sheds

Our farmers

Everything in your bag is grown as locally as possible, by small-scale sustainable farms in the London hinterland and beyond. They harvest only what's needed each week, which makes Vegbox one of the least wasteful ways to get fresh produce into the city – and because we run a fair supply chain, around 60p of every pound you spend goes to the farmer, compared with roughly 10p in the supermarket system.

Martin of Ripple Farm smiling in a field, holding a bunch of freshly pulled beetroot — Martin at Ripple Farm, Kent

Eating with the seasons

Your bag follows the UK growing year, so it changes every week – that's the point. Summer is the golden season; winter brings hardy greens, squashes and roots. And in early spring, roughly April to June, comes a lean period growers call the hungry gap, when there's simply less fresh seasonal produce about – the bag will feel a little lighter then.

A box of rainbow cherry tomatoes in red, yellow, purple and green — Rainbow tomatoes at the height of summer

Each week's contents are on the homepage, and our newsletter shares what's happening in the fields and what's coming into season – along with recipe ideas for anything unfamiliar.