Shop! at Hodmedod's Bean Store

Have you driven or cycled past our front door and wondered what goes on behind it? On Saturday 21st June we opened our big Bean Store doors for a chance to shop with us in person and have a look behind the scenes.

Meeting our customers is always a joy, but our pulses, grains and seeds are awkward (and heavy) to take to events and markets. So we thought we’d invite our more local customers to come to us instead.

What goes on in our big shed – and why we do it – is everyday for us, but we know how fascinating it is to see behind the scenes of other businesses; so we also laid on a short talk and tour of our warehouse and mill.

Everything we sell online was available - pulses, grains, seeds, roasted snack pulses and flour stone-milled by our team here in Brampton. As well as books, gluten-free ingredients, and foods from our guest suppliers including Cornish Seaweed, Hempen Co-operative and Halen Môn.

Henrietta Inman, who bakes across the yard at heart bakery, joined us, offering tea and coffee and a selection of goodies crafted from Hodmedod’s ingredients and local produce: Wholemeal loaves, St Helena and Baron Bigod cheese quiches made with YQ pastry, courgette, herb and marrowfat pea rough puff rolls, buckwheat, gooseberry and Brazil nut frangipane tarts, and lots more.

From our friends just up the road at Clinks Farm we had early summer produce and bunches of cut flowers for sale.

Photo thanks to Joel Rodker.

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