02 March 2007

Local and Fairtrade Food in Coventry

A good place to start is by searching Big Barn (a database of small food producers that you can search by postal code).

As well, the Warwickshire Farmer's Market take place on the second Thursday of every month in Medieval Spon Street with a large selection of fresh produce. Details: Tel 024 7622 7264.

Beyond that, here is a list that we included in our 2500-copy Autumn 2006 newsletter to homes in Earlsdon:

Alexander Wines (local beer, organic beer and organic cider), 112-114 Berkley Road South

Alma Delicatessen (fair trade coffee and chocolate), 50 Corporation Street

Cartridge World (refils for printer ink cartridges), 43 Earlsdon Street

the Co-Op (organic cotton toilet paper, 100% recycled kitchen roll, fair trade bananas and beer and honey
and wine and choc, cat litter made from recycled paper, Ecover products), various locations (Corporation Street, Earlsdon Street, Allesley, Willenhall)

Coventry Market – Sidwells, near the fish stalls, now sells organic fruit and veg

Down To Earth, http://www.downtoearthorganic.co.uk (wide variety of fruit, veg, canned goods, an organic box scheme, and refillable bottles of Ecover cleaning liquid and washing liquid), 96a Earlsdon Street

Drop In The Ocean (health food store in city centre), 17 City Arcade

Honeyfields Beefarm (heather honey, cut comb honey, chunk honey, honey mustard, honey marmalade), Coventry Road, Aldermans Green, CV2 1NT, 024 7649 0311

Kendall’s Delicatessen (speciality local free range meat and cheese, as well as fair trade olive oil from Palestine), 54 Earlsdon Street

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There is also an often forgotten fair trade shop based just inside Holy Trinity Church in Coventry which stocks a wide variety of fair trade produce, gifts and accessories.