Bean trailblazers Bold Bean Co, Hodmedod’s and The Honest Bean Co join us at the Harvest Festival for a panel discussion exploring why beans, pulses, peas and legumes are the unsung heroes of sustainable farming and nutrition.
Discover their environmental benefits, from enriching soil to reducing carbon footprints, and learn how they’re gaining recognition as powerful, versatile ingredients in modern British cuisine.
This event is part of the Harvest Festival, a collaboration with The Drop LDN, full of workshops, talks and stalls inviting visitors to discover the diversity of UK-grown food, celebrating little-known crops, plant ‘offcuts’ and the ingenuity of UK growers and chefs in adapting our modern harvest to the sustainability challenges of our time. Festival tickets must be booked separately.
About
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Hodmedod's
Hodmedod's
Nick Saltmarsh, Josiah Meldrum and William Hudson founded Hodmedod in 2012 to supply beans and other products from British farms.
They work with British farms to source a range of top quality ingredients and delicious foods. They are particularly interested in searching out less well-known foods, like the fava bean – grown in Britain since the Iron Age but now almost forgotten – and black badger peas.
Hodmedod is an East Anglian dialect word. It mostly means snail in Suffolk but can also refer to the curls in a girl’s hair or an ammonite. However, Norfolk speakers generally mean hedgehog by hodmedod, calling a snail a dodman – “thass not a hodmedod, thass a dodman!” -
Bold Bean Co
Bold Bean Co
Bold Bean Co is on a mission to make everyone obsessed with beans, and are doing an astonishing job at it with a cult following behind their ridiculously delicious range of beans and pulses.
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The Honest Bean Co
The Honest Bean Co
The Honest Bean Co is the brainchild of Adam, a Yorkshire farmer with a passion for British produce and regenerative agriculture. Determined to come up with a way to divert delicious British-grown fava beans away from export to other countries he started looking into different ways they could be used.
