The Catalogue · Season 2025–2026
The list is short by design. We work each line ourselves — the farm, the certification, the freight, the receiving dock — and we add a new line only when we are sure we can hold the standard. What follows is grouped by trade rather than by category, since that is how our buyers think about it.
The Festival cultivar is the heart of our fresh fruit programme. We carry it out of Beheira from late October through early June, picked at the Hosny and Abou-Seoud farms south of Edfina and consolidated at our cooling station in Nubaria. Fortuna ships from January, Rabida from March. Grades 25-35 mm and 35+ mm. EU Organic across the whole programme, with five of the eleven Beheira farms also certified Demeter.
Two cultivars from the Nubaria reclamation belt: the Violet de Provence on heavier soils east of the road, the Romanesco on the lighter sandy ground further west. The harvest window opens in early November and closes by mid-March. We pack six- and nine-count cartons for the Dutch wholesale trade and a small twelve-count line for retail.
Wonderful from the orchards at Wadi Halfa and from a single grower in Qena who has been working without synthetic inputs since long before the certification existed. Manfalouti, the Egyptian heirloom, runs in smaller volumes from Assiut. September through November. The Manfalouti tends to be allocated by January — if you want it, write early.
From three growers in Ismailia working under contract for the European fresh-bean window. Picked daily, pre-cooled within four hours, and on the road to Damietta the same evening. Calibre 6-8 mm and 8 mm+. November through April.
The herb programme runs out of Wadi Natrun, where four small farms pack into our own consolidated air-freight load three times a week. Pillow packs in 100, 200 and 500 gram formats. The mint and basil go almost entirely to a single retailer in the Randstad; the dill and coriander are placed more broadly across Dutch and Belgian wholesale.
Late-season mango from Ismailia and Sharqia, August through October. The Zebda — an Egyptian variety with a small stone and a long shelf life — ships exclusively to a specialty importer in Brussels. The Keitt and Naomi run into the broader Northern European market via Rotterdam.
Jew's mallow processed within four hours of picking at the Sharqia processor we have worked with since the firm's first year. The chopped grade ships in retail pouches under several private labels in the Egyptian diaspora trade; the whole-leaf grade goes to a small restaurant supplier in Rotterdam.
The baby grade is the more interesting line — harvested under-size and frozen the same day, a habit our grower in Fayoum has kept up for thirty years. Whole and sliced okra run year-round in twenty-foot reefer loads.
From the same Beheira farms as the fresh programme, processed when the fruit grades out of the fresh pack. The IQF strawberry is sold against annual contracts placed each July for the following pack year. Grade A whole runs around 70% of the volume; sliced and halved take the balance.
A small, deliberate line. The Keitt and Naomi fruit that does not make the fresh grade goes through the processor at Belbeis and ships as a 19 mm dice to two smoothie blenders in the Netherlands and one in Denmark.
From three groves on the western edge of the Siwa oasis, hand-graded at the Nasr cooperative packhouse and shipped in five-kilogram corrugated cartons for trade and in two-hundred-and-fifty gram retail packs for two Dutch customers. Demeter certified on the El-Adwa grove since 2024.
Aswan and Qena, the karkadeh of the Egyptian south. We buy from a cooperative of fourteen smallholders, sun-dried in the field and finish-graded at our partner facility in Esna. Quoted by colour grade — deep red, bright red, light red — rather than by particle size.
A modest line from a single grower in Minya. The anise is the better of the three — an old strain that holds its oil well in storage. Sold mostly to herbal-tea blenders and to one Dutch distiller.
From a small processor in Fayoum who slow-dries on raised wooden racks rather than in tunnels. Ships in five-kilogram pouches packed under nitrogen.
The dried-herb side of the Wadi Natrun programme. Cut leaf and powder grades. The mint is the workhorse — six tonnes a year to one large Dutch tea blender, with a smaller flow to specialty.
Spunta and Hermes from the Bakker-Visser nursery near Joure in Friesland, Lady Rosetta from a smaller grower in Drenthe. Shipped against forward contracts placed in summer for the Egyptian autumn planting. We handle the NVWA plant passport, the phytosanitary file and the customs clearance at Alexandria. ISTA seed tags on every lot.
Tomato, cucumber, sweet pepper hybrids bred for high-light, high-heat conditions. We move small volumes — one container or less — to four Egyptian glasshouse operations who are not large enough to buy direct from the breeder.
UV-stabilised polyethylene film from the de Vries plant in Eindhoven, in widths cut for the standard Egyptian gothic-arch tunnel. Six- and nine-metre widths. Shipped on twenty-foot flat-rack out of Rotterdam.
Pressure-compensating drip line and inline emitters from the Heersink works in Twente. We supply to two of our own contract growers and to a small distributor in Cairo. Coils, fittings and primary mains in matched specification.
Glasshouse climate-control hardware — vent controllers, screen drives, irrigation computers — from a Westland systems integrator. Specified to the grower; we project-manage the install and the first season of remote support.
A small, slow line: mesophilic and thermophilic starter cultures from a Friesland dairy laboratory, shipped frozen to a single Cairo cheesemaker we have known since long before Leena existed. One pallet a quarter.
Specifications, harvest windows and current allocation are quoted by writing to the desk. We do not maintain a public price list — produce is sold against forward contracts, and the price is the price for the lot, the grade and the lane.