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35 B Corp brands in one place
We're incredibly proud to have joined the B Corp community earlier this year, alongside an admirable group of brands. Now, you can find 35 B Corp certified brands all in one place, on Ocado. They have a dedicated B Corp section online - 'B Corp Certified'. Certified B...
We are proud to join the B Corp community
WHAT IS B-CORP? Certified B Corporations, in the simplest of terms, are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. We are incredibly proud to...
Saltings – a poem by Steve Griffiths
To celebrate the beginning of 2018, the Year of the Sea in Wales, we asked Steve Griffiths, our favourite local poet, if we could share his beautiful piece entitled 'Saltings.' --- The taste that sea-salt opens up: its slow, white bolt from the blue. The taste you...
Video: Fish Story
Sometime in the 1980s, Caspar Salmon's grandmother was invited to a gathering on the island of Anglesey, attended exclusively by people with fish surnames. Or so he says. Thirty years later, film-maker Charlie Lyne attempts to sort myth from reality. (Spoiler: our...
Pizza Pop-Up at Tŷ Halen for Easter Weekend
This weekend, we are excited to be welcoming Hilary from The Rustic Gourmet to Ty Halen, who will be selling her famous wood-fired pizzas, as well as our local mussels and Anglesey fish soup. The oven will be going from 11.30 to3.30pm on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th...
5 Welsh Proverbs for St David’s Day
Designs/drawings: J Lea-Wilson
Our Christmas Gift Guide 2015
Though we're sure that any food-lover will be pleased with a gift from Halen Môn this Christmas, we know that sometimes choosing can be difficult, so we've put together a quick festive guide for the different people in your life. FOR YOUR SECRET SANTA Our exclusive...
Salt, flowers, bitters and chocolates: The Meadow
'The Meadow celebrates the elemental essentials of the table by exploring the variety and nuances that ennoble and inspire us. We welcome our customers with expertise, passion, and a desire to share our interests in food and culture. Through this simple mission we...
4 Things We Loved About Nantucket
“Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it—a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.” - from Moby...
Forty Years in Cookbooks
I was asked recently for a list of cookbooks that have been influential in my life, by a friend writing his own book. As I flicked through many heavily-laden shelves, I realised how much these books have influenced how my family and I have lived for the past 40 years...