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This is a rapidly expanding growth area tailored for small food businesses and organisations who share and engage with the Slow Food ethos through our network, to achieve positive change in the food system.
Here you can view the full range of special Business Member benefits
...or you can email slowludlow@gmail.com if you would like to discuss this further and explore how we can work together with you.
Apostle Coffee started in 2016 with the ambition to produce the best organic coffee in the UK with the minimum environmental impact. They are accredited organic with the Soil Association and offset emissions with an ongoing tree planting scheme.
My whole business ethos echoes Slow Food’s ethic of Good, Clean and Fair, as we work with a local product, helping sustain traditional orchards, promoting old varieties otherwise lost.
It’s all about the heritage, provenance and legacy for Paul and Sarah Appleby and the milk and cheeses they produce
At Artistraw, Tom and Lydia are passionate about making natural cider (no added sugar, water or sulphites- just apples). They hand pick fruit from unsprayed, low intensity traditional standard orchards in the local area just outside Hay-on-Wye.
Organically grown fruits and nuts on a 25 acre farm in Hopton Wafers, Shropshire.
A spicy little enterprise born from a love of travel, interesting tastes and ingredients.
Situated at the foot of the Longmynd and the Stiperstones at the intersection of two rivers, The Bridges is hard to beat for an idyllic location. Using fresh, local ingredients from local growers, The Bridges upholds Slow Food values.
We seek to showcase products with a Slow Food story behind their production and enjoy linking producers making something wonderful and customers asking for something special to eat.
Chapters opened in July 2019 with the aim of supporting small scale producers & other independent businesses from Hay-on-Wye and the surrounding areas. Creating a sustainable restaurant is at the heart of all decision making.
Everything we do reflects the ethos of Slow Food, from our traditional orchards to the long slow fermentation and oak maturing to produce quality local cider.
Fruits of the Forage make preserves, cordials and spirits with traditional heritage fruit and wild plants, capturing a unique and sustainable taste of the British landscape.
Great Berwick Organics specialise in rearing English Longhorn cattle on fields next to the River Severn; producing some of the finest beef possible.
Based in Shropshire, Hammonds Foods was born out of a desire to provide high quality muesli that is not only healthy but tastes great! They use as many locally sourced ingredients as possible and then mix them together in their own kitchen in Shropshire.
Artisan producers of world class British charcuterie from locally reared, high welfare, rare breed Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs.
Havenhills Field & Kitchen is based just south of Shifnal, producing hyper-local, seasonal, nutritious food hampers for delivery to the local area - that's Slow Food.
Sustainable honey made in Shropshire and North Wales from Hedgerow Honey. All beehives are local to North Shropshire and North Wales, so all products have low food miles, reducing their carbon footprint.
From an onsite wind turbine to sourcing hops just 7 miles down the road, championing local people and produce is a huge part of what Hobsons Brewery stand for.
Characterful speciality coffee, ethically sourced from sustainable, eco-conscious growers from around the world.
Steve AKA The Hungry Guy works as a personal chef, food consultant and food educator. Championing local produce and minimising food waste, The Hungry Guy is a natural Slow Food Business supporter.
Slow Food deserves real wine! We specialise in wines that are good, clean, fair and naturally delicious.
Award-winning hand-crafted spirits from local barley and foraged botanicals using traditional methods, upholding Slow Food values
From bud to bottle, Little Pomona Orchard & Cidery crafts distinctive drinks from wonderful apples & pears.
Local to Ludlow promotes food and drink produced within 30 miles of Ludlow. Our aim is to reduce the environmental cost of food production and to support the local food economy.
Hand crafted and copper distilled. Special gins and liqueurs made in the town of great food - the perfect Slow Food combination.
The original food festival that takes place in Ludlow Castle and showcases food and drink from the Marches through the main festival in September and the Spring Event in May as well as the Magnalonga walk in the summer.
We are proud to be Slow Food members as an artisan producer of award-winning products using local ingredients in small batches.
Our aim is to raise animals on a small scale to high welfare standards, allowing us to give them the best amount of care and attention.
Winemakers Thomas and Emma Holt settled in Northern Spain after meeting in Shrewsbury to achieve their ambition of bringing together old world traditions and modern techniques to make their own wines, in their own style.
At Perry Wood Farm we produce sustainable lamb, hogget and mutton in a high welfare environment. Soil health is paramount. Slow Food epitomises the ethos behind all we do.
We're passionate about making bread that tastes great, is good for you and helps the local community - values closely aligned to Slow Food.
A family-run farm of 770 acres situated just North of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, where oats and wheats have been grown organically since 1949 as well as a sizeable dairy herd. The Pimhill Mill produces award-winning Organic Oats and Cereals, flour and oatcakes.
On the southern edge of the Mortimer Forest, The Riverside at Aymestrey showcases what they love most about our unspoilt and historic part of Britain through their produce.
Rustic Puglia produce traditional Olive Oil, as well as having accommodation in Puglia, Italy.
Award-winning handcrafted spirits from the Glynn family distillery in Ellesmere, Shropshire.
At Shropshire Salumi we produce handmade traditional charcuterie, using locally reared, high welfare, traditional breed livestock reflecting the Slow Food ethos.
At Strawberry Fields we are truly passionate about producing high quality award winning Shropshire lamb, native breed beef and woodland rare breed pork.
Creative ceramics and sculpture plus bespoke carpentry and artistic design and build. All products are handcrafted and are suitable for restaurant use and home dining.
Wenlock Edge Farm specialise in the art of traditional bacon curing and the production of artisan pork products, retaining skills that have been all but lost.
Wild Shropshire is a terrior led, micro-seasonal, British food restaurant from chef James Sherwin.
Natural ingredients: foraged, farmed and forged. Quality ingredients that fit the Slow Food ethos.
Wild Game from the local Marches is a wonderful source of nutritious and highly adaptable food - just what Slow Food is all about.
William Chase behind Chase Distillery and Tyrrells Crisps' latest venture: producing organic apple cider vinegar. The harvesting, pressing, fermenting & bottling are all done the Slow Food way.
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