food & farming

Town centre Delicatessen with lots of locally produced  and other unusual foods and beers. 

Sells organic raw milk,cream and yogurt. Small farm shop with pork,lamb,eggs

Café and farmshop with some organic (and lots of) local food.

Purify wastewater, create ecosystems and wildlife habitats, and plant biomass.

Handmade organic chocolates. normally on sale at the monthly food Market. (1st Friday, The Square)

Free-range geese, no routine use of antibiotics, 
 

 Home produced lamb and pork, local beef. Fresh fruit and free-range eggs, cakes, pickles, preserves.
 

design and build  wood-fired cob ovens and run workshops (at schools too)
 

Wholefoods and local breads. Fair trade rugs and goods

Group who encourage fair trade in Shrewsbury. (Buy itemsfrom stall in Market Hall). Any retail or catering outlet selling 4 or more products may notify the group to maintain the 'Fairtrade' logo.

Contacts: Ken and Meriel Chippindale
a.chippindale591@btinternet.com
 

Waste food as it rots creates methane in landfill, so eat it all up!. We recommend you only compost raw food and not meat, fish, bread or dairy. If you want to compost cooked food you should be use a wormery instead.  ( More on composting and see Wiggly Wigglers in Home & Garden section).
Of course it is better to avoid waste in the first place though, so try not to waste so much food, the average family could save about £60 per month on shopping bills!

You can now put any waste cooked foods, meat, cheese and kitchen greens etc in compostable (plastic) bags, and add them to the green garden waste wheelie bin for fortnightly roadside collection.

 SHREWSBURY FOOD HUB - Fantastic new and fast-developing charity for receiving,. collecting and delivering unwanted food from all sorts of shops/supermarkets, and getting it to where it's most needed.  In its first yearIt has fed over 2,000 people a week, and rescued 14 tonnes of food, and is helping 36 community groups.

Mainly locally sourced ingredients for cakes and sarnies. Fairtrade / Rain Forest Alliance Coffee.

Offer spent coffee..... free for your compost. Their take away coffee cups are fully compostable.

    
Locally grown, rapeseed oil to buy online or locally, different flavours. Lots of stockists, or from Moor Farm Shop, which has a tea shop and sells meat and vegs. 

and Organic eggs.
 

Free range turkeys, no routine use of antibiotics.
 

This positive and imaginative community effort into growing fruit flowers and veg, all over the town, started in 2008, and aims to increase the amount of local food grown and eaten. Local businesses, schools, farmers and the whole community are all involved, school children are even growing greens in the graveyard near their school. So. learning, growing eating and sharing all going on in an ad hoc way - this has inspired communities all over the world.

Sell fairtrade, local and organic fruit + veg. Refill Ecover products.
 

for nearby wildlife, biodiversity issues, websites and local field meetings with experts. Runs a free tree scheme for residents in Shropshire every winter

Carries out the inspection and licensing of organic farming and food producers across the UK.
 

They are an action group concerned with replacing the use of toxic pesticides.

They have section for all pollinators including bees

Plant based food.      Falafels, hummus, salads, loose leaf tea, artisan coffee

greengrocer and grocery, some organic, some local. Refills Ecover cleaning products. Some kitchenware and assorted goodies.  Now have a veg and fruit box delivery scheme.

Japanese authentic ingredients; some wholefoods.

Lively coffeehouse. Music, group meetings, allsorts! wi-fi.
Long opening hours . Coffee, soup, sandwiches, pastries & light evening nibbles.
Has an alcohol licence.

Gets surplus food to local groups and charities......saving our planet's resources.

Buy local Beers from: Corvedale (Corfton) Dolphin (Shrewsbury)Hobsons (Cleobury Mortimer) Ironbridge,  Lion’s Tail (Cheswardine) Ludlow, 

Offas’s Dyke (Trefonen) Rowton,  Salopian (Shrewsbury) Shires (Madley) Six Bells (Bishop’s Castle) Stonehouse (Weston) Three Tuns (Bishop’s Castle)
Wem (Wem) Wood (Wistanstow)
As well as available on the pumps in pubs many of these breweries produce bottle beer sold in Appleyards (High St)  and some off-licences.
 

Artisan smoked salmon & Produce, totally traditional.

Sells lots of ethically produced  foods in small or large quantities.

Good choice of dry herbs and spices .Can buy very small amounts of spices, herbs and loose herbal teas  etc

Also organic flours, natural toothpaste and soaps wrapped in paper, and deodorants in cardboard, not plastic. 

At end of Grayfriars Bridge and also a Stop within the Museum; Coffee, soups, snacks, free wifi. ( and now within University Centre, at Frankwell).

Makers of a range of vegetarian and vegan foods, with fully recyclable packaging . Available from 'Snapdragon wholefoods' in the market hall and Battlefied farm shop. Based in Newport, Shropshire,( but now producing at the Quay Co-op in Cork).

The British Quinoa Company, won the Arable Innovator of the Year Award at the British Farming Awards in 2014......... sells at Snapdragon Wholefoods in Shrewsbury Market. 

Only place in UK growing and selling organic quinoa.  Website has recipes, video and details.

An on-line shop for local,organic food.

Also Wackley Brook an organic small holding near Wem

 Pub...Sometimes has organic beer.
 

Organises the yearly fair. A celebration of real markets, people and traditions - farmers market, artisans bazaar ...

Sells local produce and goods as well as some Suma whole foods.

Has a small fresh coffee bar with tables outside and inside.