About Original Organics

Original Organics is based in Wigan, Lancashire, Gtr Manchester and we deliver organic food across the UK to wholesale customers. We have been trading now since 2001. The company is owned and run by Nev Dunn with a fantastic team of dedicated customer service staff, packers and drivers.

A Personal Tale (by Nev Dunn)

My experience starts on a search for organic food 21 years ago when my partner at that time, Pam, was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer.

As conventional medicine had failed her previously, and our lifestyle generally veering to alternative ideals, we researched for alternative methods of treating the disease.

After many hours, days and weeks this search led us to a clinic in Upton, near Chester, where I picked up a book from one of their shelves called The Gerson Therapy.

Quickly skimming the pages we felt this was the way to go. Using organic food was the essential ingredient for this detoxification therapy. Unfortunately the produce was almost impossible to find in 1986, even in a major city like Manchester.

Once a week I would travel to Geoff Nicholls Farm just outside Chester where Geoff allowed me to dig 40kg of carrots and 5 dozen lettuce each week. I brought them home, re-planted the lettuce temporarily, and we started scrubbing carrots ready to make the essential fresh organic juices!

We would order other bulk items from a wholesaler who travelled all over the country picking up produce and dropping off, I think there was only one health food shop in Manchester supplying at that time, so different from today's situation!

The Gerson Therapy was not easy. I was working full time in the day, and digging for food! And my partner was taking care of both a five year old and a new born. The need for plenty of rest made the two year period a time of dedication for all. Getting better was very hard work! Two years later Pam received the 'all clear'.

This experience caused me to carry on with my interest in organic food and start up a wholesale and retail business. Pam and I worked this together, with me doing the driving and picking up, and Pam, in those days, needing to explain to many health food shops just what the difference between organic food and conventionally grown food was, before we could go on to sell to them!! Again, a far cry from today, when organic food has become almost commonplace. We stopped this business after a few years, when our circumstances changed and Pam left and became interested in writing.

In 2001, after a spell helping to establish an organic co-op, I decided to set up my own organic food business again, wholesaling from Manchester Market. This is where my heart is, and I hope that my sense of good business practice matches my genuine feelings about organic food and its high principles. This I can pass on to my valued customers, the retailers.

I have developed many links with growers over the years since my first venture, and am now proud to say that I'm one of three directors who bought Blairs Organic Nurseries with a vast two acre glasshouse that has been growing Organic tomato, pepper and cucumber since 1968, and a reputation nationwide for Organic Produce of the highest standard. As well as supplying my retailers with an abundance of high quality, fresh home grown produce, being a grower myself now, gives me a greater understanding, and even better relationship with some of the best, very hard working and principled growers who supply Original Organics today.