From a market stall to a corner deli

We only sell food we would cook with ourselves, from people we have met, at prices that pay them properly.

The first stall was a Saturday table at a Bristol market, piled with chutney made in a borrowed cafe kitchen after hours. Hattie cooked and Joe sold, and the recipes were scribbled on the back of delivery notes.

The first batch of marmalade came the next January, and it sold out before lunch. By 2016 the stall had grown into a corner shop on Gilliver Street, with the jam pans moved into the kitchen behind the counter.

2012

60+

48,000

Every order and every hamper is packed by hand in the kitchen behind the Bristol shop. Boxes are lined with straw, wrapped in tomato red tissue and sealed with a paper tape, so nothing shifts on the way.

We do not use plastic fillers, bubble wrap or polystyrene. The straw is a by-product of local wheat, the tissue is uncoated and recyclable, and the tape is paper. Gift notes are written by hand and tucked on top.