Why they’re good: Abel & Cole is one of the best known organic boxes and has been around for over 25 years. Their recipe boxes provide everything you need to create four meals for two people, but they offer simple meat, fish and vegetable boxes if you want to create your own meals, too.

Why else: Abel & Cole can be all things to all people, from your milkman to your bartender…

Why they’re good: Multi award-winning Eversfield Organic says that the key to their top-quality meat is high animal welfare. You can order selection-boxes or create your own meat boxes, and even organic hand-made ‘ready-meals’, vegetables, and beer, too.

Why else: Pedigree herds and native breeds are at the heart of Eversifeld Organic’s family-run business, which means they are well-suited to grazing on the west Devon fields. Their organic chickens and turkeys are also free to roam the meadows, allowing them to rummage for their favourite things (acorns, apparently). If you’re ever in Devon, head over for a farm tour, all customers invited.

Why they’re good: Meat connoisseurs should try Field&Flowers beef at least once. They hang their beef for a minimum of 28-days using an Australian hanging technique to tenderise the meat, significantly reduce its water content and deepen its flavour.

Why else: The truly free-range and grass-fed meat comes from Somerset farms. The day before delivery a butcher trims each cut to order and the kitchen teams press the burgers by hand and hand-ties the sausages.

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Why they're good: Boer goats are bred on Bere Marsh Farm because they are meatier goats. Owner Fiona Gérardin says, “they have bigger bums and are stockier and shorter than traditional dairy goats”.

All meat is butchered to order, so comes exactly as you want it. The goat meat shoulder joints melt like butter when slow-roasted, leg steaks are tender in casseroles and chops are particularly succulent after being cooked on a summer BBQ.

Why else: Bere Marsh Farm is currently the only organic goat meat supplier in the UK. Animal welfare is top priority, the newborns are milked and weaned naturally by their mothers, sleeping all together in a barn at night and let out to graze by about 9:30am every day – they refuse to get up before then.

Why they’re good: HelloFresh are all about the recipes. Their meals take about half an hour to prepare, and the team have worked with Jamie Oliver to come up with ideas that will help you shake up your routine.

Why else: Their meat, fish and veg are sustainably and ethically sourced – their fishmonger also delivers to Buckingham Palace.

Why they’re good: If you live between Belsize Park, Kentish Town and Archway then you can pick up your bag organic veg, produced predominantly by London farmers, from 10 different pick-up point rather than the supermarket. Bags typically contain carrots, onions, potatoes and greens plus seasonal offerings – the basics of a weekly shop.

Why else: A community-led scheme, run as a consumer co-operative (owned by the customers and service- rather than profit-orientated), the Kentish Town Veg Box scheme provides a regular outlet and fair price for small-scale organic farmers as well as affordable organic veg for its customers.

Why they’re good: With recipes created by a chef, alongside a former personal trainer and nutritionist, you’ll only find gluten-free meals that don’t contain any refined carbs or sugars in Mindful Chef boxes.

Why else: Organic meat and fresh organic vegetables are delivered straight from the Westcounty to your door, plus their fish will be from one of the 40 species that are landed daily in St Ives.

Why they’re good: From Great Taste Awards to 'Food Made Good' accreditation, Pipers Farm is widely recognised for its succulent meats and creative cuts – and has won a whole host of awards to prove it.

Why else: Pipers Farm sells produce from 25 small, family run farms in Exeter which all have a super-sustainable approach to farming and exceptionally animal welfare at their core – this means slow-growing breeds and 100% grass fed cattle. Totally transparent, their website even tells you about the slaughter process.

Why they’re good: ‘Live life on the veg’ is the strapline of this award-winning box scheme which offers pretty much everything you need to make breakfast, lunch and dinner – including organic meat and organic wines. beers and juices.

Why else: Riverford have the only certified organic pub in London, called the Duke of Cambridge in Angel. Unsurprisingly, they have won multiple awards including ‘ethical product of the decade’.

Why they’re good: Rosewood's beef, lamb and mutton are moved to fresh grass every day to graze, resulting in tasty, healthy and eco-friendly meat. A small family farm, meat is delivered frozen – ready to defrost or re-freeze – and their prices are aligned with Tesco's middle-of-the-range meats.

Why else: With a true nose-to-tail philosophy Rosewood also sell cowhides from their cattle and organically tanned sheepskins from their sheep.

Why they’re good: Turner is the executive chef of Hawskmoor, a top-class steak restaurant. ‘George’ is a top-class butcher. Together they have created an artisan butchers shop in Clerkenwell and online shop that sources meat from small, independent farms.

Why else: They believe that only animals that have been well bred and cared for can taste truly amazing, so all beasts and birds have been raised naturally and are hormone, antibiotic and cruelty-free.

Why they’re good: The name is only start of what’s great about this company that delivers organic meat boxes and butchers cuts directly to your door. The Well Hung Meat Co pride themselves on high animal welfare, looking after the environment and paying a fair price to farmers.

Why else: Their nose-to-tail butchering policy means that you can get some interesting cuts of meat delivered including beef shin and ox heart as well as fillet steaks and rib joints.