HALEN MÔN BLOG
Expect interesting and delicious articles on everything from how to use our pure sea salt to eco-friendly gift ideas, how to season like a chef to flavoured salt recipes.
The science behind why seaweed is good for your skin
After welcoming thousands of visitors to our wild seaweed barrels, we're used to the glowing reports of what seaweed can do for you - from helping people sleep better, to soothing sore muscles after a lot of exercise. Research shows that these marine plants are packed...
The hottest food trend this summer? Natural smoky flavour
This summer, producers are tapping into the continuing trend for smoky, wood-fired flavours. Consumers’ exposure to fire cooking and global barbecue flavours has grown, driven by the trend for restaurants cooking over open flames, the rise of BBQ social media...
Jen Goss + charity venture Cegin y Bobl
Cegin Y Bobl (The People’s Kitchen) is nothing short of a Welsh food revolution. The right to cook, eat and know food, is something that is at the very heart of Jen Goss's work with Cegin y Bobl and she believes it should be universal. Especially children at primary...
Unusual things to do in Wales
Visitors to Halen Môn often ask us for other recommendations of interesting things to do on the salty isle. There are lots of lists out there but here we've pulled together some of the more unusual places to visit and things to do when you're on Ynys Môn.Explore...
James Chant + Matsudai’s cult ramen
Matsudai started in 2019 as a creative outlet for founder James Chant and since then has delivered tens of thousands of ramen kits to every corner of the UK, been celebrated by culinary heroes as Jay Rayner, Tim Anderson and Melissa Thompson and James has gone on to...
Celebrating the sea: how we can all protect the waters we love
As an organisation that relies on the incredible natural resources around our beautiful island, this World Ocean Day, we want to celebrate the seas all over the world, and share some ways we can all help protect the waters we rely on. The magic of seaweed A truly...
Our charity of the year 2025
Every year our team votes for a charity to raise funds for, and this year the organisation we have chosen is Shelter Cymru. For Shelter Cymru, home is everything. Their team helps thousands of people each year across Wales who are affected by the housing emergency,...
Letitia Ann Clark and For the Love of Lemons
Letitia Ann Clark's latest book For the Love of Lemons, celebrates a single sunny ingredient, the lemon. Joyful and bright recipes that transport us to sunnier days. Letitia kindly sat down to answer a few of our questions about the book and how she uses this...
A simple way to change children’s eating habits
The problemIn the UK, 33% of children aged 5-10 years eat less than one portion of vegetables a day. In recent years, fruit and vegetable consumption has declined in adults too, with only 31% eating the recommended five portions a day, despite the decades long ‘5-a...
The scent of rain: What is petrichor?
Have you ever stepped outside after a long dry spell, just as the first raindrops begin to fall, and recognised a scent in the air? Earthy. Fresh. Comforting. Not many people realise that scent has a name: petrichor. Coined in the 1960s by two Australian scientists,...