Tamar Valley Food Hubs

19/06/2026

This week's seasonal produce, the first of this season's peas, cucumbers and courgettes (if the rain and sun are kind!).

Broad Beans, Tamar Valley strawberries, celery, spinach, elephant - spring - wet garlic, lettuce, salad mix, new potatoes, kale (dazzling blue or east fresian palm) spring onions, rainbow chard, kohlrabi, cabbage (golden acre), Jalapeno chillis, beetroot, agretti, white onions, carrots, juicing pack mix, edible flowers and lots of fresh herbs.

Look out for Devon grown apricots and the first blackcurrants from Hilltown Organics. Freshly picked (then frozen) Haskaps from Trevozah/Hester's Harvest.

Choose local producer veg bags and boxes from: Wild Tor Organics and Goodh Life

And a bouquet of joy from Trelowen Flowers

16/06/2026

A massive well done to Heyl Bakery 👏👏👏

We are beyond chuffed to have won the Muddy Stilettos | Devon award for best food producer for the SECOND year in a row!🎉

Voted for by YOU, our customers, this means so much to us. As small business owners, we often find ourselves worrying whether what we make is good enough, and whether anyone values the care and hard work we put into the things we bake. But this is a real vote of confidence, so a huuuuuge THANK YOU! to everyone who nominated and voted for us 🙏

The regional awards take place next month, then we wait and see if we made it through to the nationals 🤞🤞🤞

Muddy Stilettos

16/06/2026

A last chance of seasonal Rhubarb as we add rhubarb grown at Tamar Grow Local's demonstration market garden.

Yes it can be underrated but we believe it should me much loved seasonally.

It may be as a crumble, in your porridge, a rhubarb fool, fruit compote or stewed /baked then frozen for those winter months. Of course with yogurt, cream or custard.

Then for our Apple Co-operative it's as a juice blend. Paired with Apple it makes a delicious juice with no added sugar or sweetener just the natural sugar of the fruit.
Also harvested from our own market garden.

All the apples used for our juice come from orchards that are 'chemical free' so just pure apple apples grown agroecologically in a habitat rich biodiversity.

15/06/2026

Never worry about the size of a sourdough loaf… it’s perfect to slice and freeze then grab when you need for delicious toast.

Choose your sourdough from Sidwell Street Bakehouse - Coombeshead Farm - Heyl Bakery.

Then after a couple of days just slice (much easier to slice when it’s not super fresh) and freeze.

Why not try with our new Foundry House Cornish Butter from Hanson Fine Foods. A rich, fermented butter with a gentle tang, layered complexity and a balanced touch of sea salt. Made in Wadebridge.

With scrambled eggs, fish or cheese.

For a vegan option try Naturli' spread on anytime toast or there’s always our organic ‘palm oil free’ dark chocolate or hazelnut and chocolate spread !!!

Sourdough photo from Sidwell Street Bakehouse

14/06/2026

Plant based Salutum in Devon make delicious products, handmade in small batches.

Restocking this week is their handmade granola ….

A delicious crunchy vegan granola. Featuring coconut chips, almonds, seeds and juicy raisins, all baked in maple syrup and cinnamon and a hint of orange.

Also try their home brewed Ginger Kombucha made locally in small batches, it is a raw unpasteurised fermented tea drink.

Their Blackberry Water Kefir is flavoured with homemade blackberry cordial also a raw unpasteurised fermented drink.

Both are naturally carbonated, low in sugars but contain live cultures beneficial for gut health. A great chilled alternative to fizzy drinks.

Look out for an Elderflower Water Kefir coming soon made with freshly made
elderflower cordial.

13/06/2026

This week we introduce you to Jade and Arthur of Goodh Life, as we welcome back their seasonal veg bags on the hub. With plenty of produce to choose from for Friday 19th June delivery or collection they will contain: beetroot, summer green cabbage, broad beans, new season onions and kohlrabi.

Tucked away in the Tamar Valley, Goodh Life is a small farm producing high-quality food while looking after the land, a principle that food can be grown in a way that gives back more than it takes. The name comes from the Cornish word ‘goodh’, meaning wild, which says a lot about how they farm.

Arthur and his parents moved to the farm six years ago, Jade joined four and a half years later. Neither grew up farming, but both came to it through their backgrounds. Jade studied sustainable textiles, exploring natural fibres like h**p, flax and nettles. Arthur studied biology, and later worked for Natural England, advising farmers on how they could reduce pollution. Both trained as teachers, and that combination - education and land-based work - runs through everything they do.

Their approach to farming combines food production with rewilding. They’ve introduced longhorn cattle (at very low stocking densities) and Tamworth pigs to roam the land, using their natural behaviours to disturb the soil and help create what's called a ‘woodland mosaic’, patches of pasture, young trees and shrubs that support a greater variety of wildlife.

They have had help from Arthur’s mum Perdita, “she is the driving force of the rewilding behind the scenes, and has helped us massively with the market garden, stepping in for deliveries and allowing us to take some time off, giving us loads of advice, inspiration, and for her genuine love of weeding. We couldn't do it without her!”

As part of a Forest For Cornwall pilot project they received financial and knowledgeable support to develop agroforestry alleys. Funding for fruit trees and cactus guards that protect the naturally regenerating saplings that grow. They also received stewardship funding to support their rewilding work (public money supporting nature-positive farming).

The truth is, farming like this is hard work. It’s physically demanding and often undervalued. Jade and Arthur are open about the fact that it can feel demoralising when the time and care they put in isn’t reflected in the price food fetches. Like many small-scale growers, they’re looking at ways to diversify.

Still, there’s a lot they’re proud of. Being outdoors, seeing the direct impact of their work. Building something that reflects their values and growing in a way that keeps nature at the centre, not as an afterthought. Goodh Life grow to organic standards and are currently in conversion to organic.

The support of their family, friends and local customers, through Tamar Valley Food Hubs, makes this kind of farming possible. When people choose to buy local, they’re not just supporting a single farm, they’re investing in a system that values food quality, land stewardship, and community over convenience and scale.

Words Julie Bailey and Hanna Collins - photographs

13/06/2026

As we have had so many new followers recently (thank you) we thought we would share some shopping tips for you to help you fill your basket with Tamar Valley Food Hubs. Welcome and thank you for choosing to shop with us.

We are an online shop that puts together a range of produce so you can shop locally within one place. Bit like a local farm shop but online. It opens at 6pm on a Friday and closes at 9.30am on a Wednesday. This is because each of our producers look at their potential harvest on a weekly basis and list what they have available. The shop then closes on a Wednesday, so they can pick, pack and deliver to the Hub so it’s super fresh for your Friday delivery or collection. All of our producers are paid a fair price, greater than a supermarket.

You can set up an account to shop with us or shop as a guest. You can choose delivery or collection from one of our many free collection points, whatever works best for you. There is no minimum order. If you choose delivery a charge will apply for your area.

As we come out of the Hungry gap our producers are picking and packing the best local fresh produce. At this time of year there still can be limited supply so we suggest for the best choice of fresh options that you don’t leave your shopping until the last minute.

You have the option to shop more than once and those orders will then come together as one collection or delivery.

So if you are short on time and need to plan more your menu for the week ahead you may want to browse when the shop opens, choose all your fresh veg, make your selection then go back, scroll and order items that won’t run out like milk, bread, meat, cheese and dry goods.

Some tips:

Use filters if you don’t want to scroll through all we have.

Don’t forget to check out, you need to receive a confirmation email which means your order has been processed.

You can change, add more items up until the shop closes at 9.30am on Wednesday.

Thank you for shopping with us and supporting our many local producers and Tamar Valley Food Hubs.

12/06/2026

This week's seasonal produce....

Broad Beans in abundance from many of our producers. Tamar Valley strawberries, spinach, elephant - spring - wet garlic, turnips, lettuce, salad mix, new potatoes, kale, spring onions, rainbow chard, kohlrabi, cabbage, beetroot, agretti, white onions, baby leeks, carrots, juicing pack mix, edible flowers and fresh herbs. Waiting with the weather on courgettes and peas....

Choose local producer veg bags and boxes from:

Wild Tor Organics - a medium box with 7-8 items as listed of the freshest veg from the farm, plus items from other growers where necessary.

Goodh Life - broad beans, summer green cabbage, beetroot, new season onions and kohlrabi (in conversion to organic).

We will be pausing our English Seasonal veg bag until more English produce becomes available.

12/06/2026

Fridays are really busy at Tamar Grow Local HQ, as our brilliant team pick and pack all the local fresh produce that is harvested and prepared to order, ready for despatch.

From local fields to local hands

10/06/2026

Left over potatoes, fresh herbs, chard, fresh eggs ..

Perfect quick and easy meal to suit all household budgets..