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Seasonal and local guide: grains

Currently, 8 cereal grains (wheat, corn, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, rye, and millet) provide 56% of the food energy and...

Seasonal and local guide: pulses

Or is it legumes? Whatever you prefer to call them, dried beans, peas and lentils, make wonderful additions to our...

Seasonal and local guide: fruit and vegetables

This our guide to seasonal fruit and veg. We've tried to cover all bases, listing the main foods you can...

Seasonal and local guide: foraged foods

Foraged foods like nettles, cleaver, wild garlic, hawthorn and plantain are both nutritious and seasonally synced with the demands of...

Seasonal and (not-so) local guide: exotic foods

On occasion you might get a hankering for sweet and sour noodles, or avocado on toast. We may also see...

Square Food Foundation: recipe for success

Streets to Kitchen is our ambitious new community partnership with local charities Square Food Foundation and St. Mungo’s Recovery College....

Vegware

Until 2019, we were happily using Vegware in our cafes, because, though far from perfect and still single-use, it seemed...

St Mungo’s: a sanctuary for Bristol’s most vulnerable

With a background in education and care services, Simon Dyer wanted to find a way of bringing his skills and...

Because our bodies matter: interview with Bodymatter’s Dympna Fitzpatrick

Now employing 5 people, Bodymatter supplies independent retailers like us with crunchy granola, using mainly British and always organic ingredients....