Processing Sweet and Bitter Orange Peel
Spain Citrus Peel Supply Update 2026 Beacon Commodities Visit Murcia to Secure Dried Citrus Peel Amid Rising Lemon Prices Sweet and Bitter Citrus [...]
Harvesting the 2025 English Coriander Crop
Corriander Harvest 2025 English Coriander Crop Harvested in Sussex Well, it wasn’t quite the record-breaking year at Beacon Commodities! However, we are [...]
Plans for the new 2025 Juniper crop
New 2025 Juniper crop Putting in place plans for the new 2025 Juniper crop It is still far too early to comment [...]
Forest fires in Macedonia
Forest fires in Macedonia and the Juniper crop Tommy returned from a very restricted trip to Macedonia at the end of July. [...]
English coriander 2024
English coriander August 2024 Finally, summer has arrived and with it the warmer weather. Our UK Coriander is in full bloom and absolutely covered [...]
Level Two Youth Project, Felixstowe
Level Two Youth Project, Felixstowe Over the past 12 months Beacon Commodities have supported a number of local charities through their Suffolk Community Foundation [...]
BRCGS – AA Grade
BRCGS – AA Grade We are delighted to announce that we recently passed our 4th BRCGS Audit achieving a AA Grade. Our new certificate [...]
Egyptian Citrus
Egyptian Citrus Inspecting and processing of our Lemon Peel and the start of the Sweet Orange Michael has recently returned from Egypt where [...]
Serbian Juniper Harvest 2023
Serbian Juniper Harvest 2023 The 2023 Juniper harvest is fast approaching, and Tommy has just returned from Serbia. He was meeting collectors and [...]
Moroccan corriander crop
Moroccan Corriander crop Michael recently went to Morocco to see what the damage had been to the coriander crop due to the heavy rains [...]
Cleaning of 2022 Juniper crop in the UK
Video of the Cleaning of 2022 Juniper crop in the UK Check out our video of the 2022 juniper berries being cleaned - check [...]
Macedonia 2022 Juniper crop
Macedonia 2023 Juniper crop Michael and Tommy visited Macedonia at the end of April 2023 Visiting Macedonia Michael and Tommy visited Macedonia [...]
Citrus Fruit Suppliers
Citrus Fruit Suppliers Sourcing of citrus peel and the citrus industry Citrus peel quality and supply Over the past month, Tommy has [...]
English Coriander Seed
English Coriander Seed The earliest harvest yet of our English Coriander Seed. In 2021, we put out this report in December due to [...]
Macedonian Juniper Harvest
Macedonian Juniper Harvest Macedonia Trip Tommy recently returned from Macedonia where he was discussing quantities and the harvest for the next Juniper crop. This [...]
Murcian Citrus Supplies
Murcian Citrus Supplies Checking on the progress of the citrus processing in Murcia, Spain. Almost two years to the day since his last [...]
The Russian / Ukrainian situation
The Russian / Ukrainian situation Where does botanical sourcing sit? Beacon Commodities have been following the events in Ukraine closely and are appalled with [...]
Sussex Coriander
Sussex Coriander English coriander from planting right through to harvest The fact that this report is being sent out in December [...]
Juniper harvest 2021
Juniper Harvest 2021 Another Juniper harvest is well under way in the Balkans. Another Juniper harvest is well under way in the Balkans. [...]
Sourcing quality botanicals during Covid-19
Sourcing quality botanicals during Covid-19 What a testing year it has been for all! We hope the worst is past us but unfortunately this [...]
English coriander seed harvest
English coriander seed harvest in Sussex. After a testing year across the globe, we were very pleased with the results of our latest English [...]
UK Juniper 2020
Whilst in Scotland in September 2020, Tommy did manage to find some Scottish Juniper. Unfortunately, very small quantities and very poor quality. [...]
UK Coriander 2020
UK Coriander 2020 Our UK Coriander has burst into life following the last few days of rain. We will hopefully harvest this [...]
Beacon Commodities on lockdown
Beacon Commodities on lockdown Some time has passed since our last Newsletter and we hope this finds you, your family and friends safe and [...]
Donating and the coronovirus
Donating and the coronovirus In these troubled times Beacon Commodities are supporting three fantastic charities by donating money every time they sell a kilo [...]