How It Works

Our website lists everything we currently offer. You can use our website to order or give us a call (613) 234-1515 and we’ll take your order personally.

We currently accept cash on delivery or prepay with your credit card (MasterCard or VISA), or via Interac E-Transfer.

Please do not give us your credit card information by email or on our website. You can provide this information by phone, or we will ask for it when we confirm your order.

Interac E-Transfers can be sent to hello@ottawaorganics.com

You can order as frequently as you want. You can visit our website every week and place your order, or you can place a standing order that is delivered automatically every week or every two weeks. We encourage standing orders for our fruit and vegetable box and offer a discount when you sign up for weekly delivery.

Order up until 9pm the day before delivery!

With some exceptions:

• Milk, Cream, Dairy – Noon on Tuesday
• Bread from Inewa and Little Stream Bakery – Noon on Tuesday
• Bulk Goods – Noon on Tuesday

Occasionally the order deadline will change due to holidays. See our holiday schedule for more information.

Need to cancel an order?

• If you have a standing order, we need to receive your request to cancel by Sunday at Noon.

We have a minimum order of $29.00. You are welcome to order whatever you need and are not required to order a fruit and vegetable box.

See “Do we deliver to your neighbourhood?” for our current delivery areas and delivery days.

Depending where you live, we deliver Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Office deliveries are usually made on Monday.

If you have a preference, please mention it in the comments box during checkout.

We provide free delivery to just about all of the areas we deliver to with a minimum order of $29.

Areas outside our regular delivery area not eligible for free delivery include:

Nope. We will deliver your order in a sturdy Rubbermaid box with a secure lid. Just tell us a safe and shady spot to leave your order. To maintain freshness, we recommend leaving a cooler out with a few ice packs for us to transfer perishables like lettuce, milk, etc.

Usually. We recommend that you be at home to receive delivery if you live in an apartment. If you are not able to be home, try to arrange for someone in your building to accept delivery for you like a neighbour or building office staff.

Yes. We will deliver to your office or workplace.

Yes. Orders can be picked up from our warehouse on Wednesday & Thursday between 7:00am-4:00pm and Friday between 7:00am-3:00pm. If you are picking up, please let us know earlier in the day so we can have everything ready for you.

We encourage you to share your preferences with us. After you log-in, choose “my preferences” and let us know what you never want to receive, what you sometimes want to receive, and what you often want to receive. If our weekly box includes something you never want, we will substitute it with something else or an extra quantity of a fruit or vegetable that you prefer.

Substitution options are limited. You can customize “your preferences” so you never receive anything you don’t like. If you have special requests, tell us when you order and we’ll try our best to accommodate.

If you need to order extra fruits or vegetables for a party or you just want to stock up – let us know. We’ll try our best to deliver what you need.

Our produce is always certified organic. Just about everything else is made with certified organic ingredients. Some of products we offer contain non-organic ingredients. The product description will always clearly indicate if there are non-organic ingredients.

We try very hard to procure everything as locally or regionally as possible. During the growing season, we work with local, certified organic farmers and include as much as we can in our fruit and vegetable box. All year around, we offer locally made bread and baked goods from Ottawa’s Wild Oat Bakery. We also carry Equator coffee, roasted down the road in Almonte, Ontario and flour from Le Moulin des Cèdres based out of Les Cèdres, Québec just west of Montréal.

Your order is usually delivered within a day or two of arriving in our warehouse from our suppliers. During the growing season, some of our produce is picked the day of your delivery! All of our bread is baked the same day as your delivery. Our coffee from Equator is roasted locally, usually the same week.

Yes. We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are not happy with the quality of anything in your delivery, send us an email or give us a call and tell us what went wrong and we’ll refund your money.

If you’re not at home to receive your delivery,we recommend taking some extra steps to protect your basket:

• Leave a cooler out, we’ll transfer the contents into it. This will keep keep your basket from freezing for a while. 39L coolers are usually a good fit for a small to medium basket.
• Leave a pillow or blanket in your empty tote, and we’ll use it to insulate the basket we deliver.
• If you have a mudroom or garage, leave it unlocked and we’ll tuck inside away from the elements.
• Arrange for a neighbour to receive your delivery.
• Drop by our warehouse to pick-up your order

The basket is delivered in one of our rugged plastic totes or we will transfer your basket into your cooler. There is $10.00 deposit for the tote that is refundable if you decide to cancel your delivery. To receive a refund of your deposit, just return your tote with your last delivery. We do not pick up empty totes without a delivery. You can also return empty totes at our warehouse for a refund.

To cancel your order for the week, let us know by Sunday at 6:00pm

• contact us from our website
• phone (613) 234-1515
• or email

Yes! If would like to suspend your order while away on vacation, please let us know in advance when you will be away and what date you would like to resume receiving deliveries. The deadline to suspend your deliveries is Sunday at 6:00pm.

Absolutely! The deadline to add extra produce or food items to your order is 9:00pm the day before delivery. Orders for Milk or Cream should be received by Monday at 10:00am. Orders of bread and baked goods from the Wild Oat Bakery should be received by 5:00pm on the day before delivery.