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Food
Abundance
A project to harvest local fruit like apples, pear and plums left because people don't notice them, or can't harvest them, mainly between August and October. Abundance is a team of volunteers who help to gather city fruit and redistribute on a non-profit basis to community cafes, nurseries, Surestarts and individuals. They also make juice, jams, chutneys and preserves. If you have a fruit tree and want help, get in touch, you will get the first share. Harvester volunteers, processors and distributors also welcome.
Airy Fairy
Airy Fairy, on London Road in Sheffield, is a small gift shop & coffee shop with ethics and philosophies of creativity, education and love for the planet, individual, local and world communities. It specialises in alternative gifts, local art, reclaimed timber picture framing, Fair Trade coffees & tea, homemade organic and vegetarian cakes and lunches. Upstairs there is also a comfortable meeting room where regular workshops are held.
Appletrees.org.uk
Julian Brandram offers talks, fruit growing courses, pruning, planting and selling fruit trees and soft fruit bushes. Specialising in traditional varieties, he also re-propagates, re-plants and advises. There is an extensive list of fruit trees at low prices, for sale from autumn to spring.
Beanies
Wholefood co-op, Crookes Valley Road. Huge range including organic fresh fruit and veg. Open 7 days a week, till 8 o'clock on weekdays. All vegetarian or vegan. Excellent - worth living in Crookes for, and they deliver
Blue Moon cafe
Vegetarian and vegan licensed cafe, friendly atmosphere, great food, popular and busy and lunchtime. They also provide outside catering and the place can be hired as a venue with food.
2 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (near the cathedral tram stop) Tel. Sheff. 276 3443
Cafe Euro
Ethical and organic cafe, good vibes, nice people, licenced, free wi-fi and free drinks with food orders, 7 days a week from 8am. 72 John Street Sheffield S2 4QU (next to CCC, near The Edge climbing place) Tel. Sheff. 273 8553
Cafeology
Based in Meersbrook, this company supplies coffees, chocolate, sugars and stuff, all completely Fairtrade and ethical. Originally they sold to the 'out of home market' but now they also offer online sales - see the website
Community Composting Network
National organisation, based in Sheffield, promoting at a national level community management and use of bio- degradable waste. A network of around 200 members, it produces guides, newsletters, and holds an annual conference
Down to Earth
Wholefood shop in Sharrowvale, must be one of Sheffield's longest-running existing co-operatives. Excellent food, nice people, what more do you need? Well, a website, OK but what else? 406 Sharrow Vale road, Sheffield, S11 8ZP Tel. Sheff. 268 5220
Ediculture Network
Growing plants to eat is the basis of "Ediculture". This Sheffield-based network is linked with regular courses and activities based on long-established and wide-ranging expertise in organic food growing.
Green Food Map
Eating and growing quality, healthy and local food around Sheffield: large and useful website with contact links for courses, growing and buying etc.
See also new project 2009 by CPRE - The food webs project - Food mapping, to link producers, retailers and buyers. Coordinator contact: Lizzie on 07833 250133 or email elizabethf@cpre.org.uk
Green Spirit Hydroponics
Growing plants without soil can be highly productive, conserving water and land, and protecting the environment. This Sheffield city centre equipment supplier offers a large shop and advice from qualified staff.
Guat Shoes (vegan shoes)
Guat is a long-established Sheffield company that makes shoes including vegan ones (non-leather). They are really solid quality and last for years, unlike the cheap rubbish in high street shops.
Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative
A group which owns a 9 acre field in the Moss Valley to grow a weekly supply of fruit and vegetables for members, using Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), permaculture and co-operative principles.
Heeley City Farm
Community-based farm centre which leads the way on environmental good stuff, all free, great for a visit, specially with kids. Also has offshoots like South Yorkshire Energy Centre, community cafe and garden centre.
About 2km from city centre. Open 10am-4pm most days.
Lady of Shallott
Vegetarian and vegan nut-free food, even a delivery service, at 11 Cemetery Road, Sheffield S11 8FN
Lembas
Your favourite food online, 100% vegetarian, loads of vegan stuff, organic, Fair-Trade and all 100% free of GMOs (genetically modified organisms). A brilliant long-established business they deliver within an 80+ mile radius of Sheffield.
New Roots
Radical campaigning cafe, wholefoods, groceries, and takeaway including vegan stuff. Run by volunteers and offering free water-bottle filling, and friendly chat. Two shops: Glossop Road and Spital Hill
Regather
Regather is a Sheffield co-operative, trading locally made products and services, with a shop, a van, a trike and a website, and opportunities for local volunteers, students and community organisations. Membership offers the benefits of mutual trading, share dividends and voting rights. Like all co-operatives it promotes the values of fairness, co-operation and common wealth.
Rotherham Foodbank
13 million people live below the poverty line in the UK. People go hungry for various reasons ranging from redundancy to receiving an unexpected bill whilst on a low income.
Rotherham Foodbank, launched by Hope Church, provides emergency food and support. Non-perishable donated food is sorted and packed into emergency food boxes. Frontline care professionals such as doctors and social workers give to people in crisis foodbank vouchers exchangeable for 3 days of food. Foodbanks also take time to listen and signpost clients to further support.
Rude Shipyard
Home cooked meals, second-hand & new books for sale, and musical instruments to try out. Sally and Pete are open to more ideas to try in this friendly place which has events like CD music nights, see the website. Open every day except Wednesdays. 89 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield S7 1FE
Sage Greenfingers
A group which promotes the mental and physical well-being of adults experiencing mental health problems via the provision of creative therapeutic activities like gardening.
Sheffield Animal Friends
Animal rights group based in Sheffield looking for people who want to get active in animal rights in South Yorkshire, stalls and demonstrations against the fur/vivisection/meat industries
Sheffield Initiative for Fairtrade (SHIFT)
SHIFT monitors Sheffield's Fairtrade City status and promotes and increases awareness of Fairtrade products. The website lists shops and cafés selling Fairtrade products.
Sheffield Organic Food Initiative
Crookes-based charity promoting organic food growing, permaculture and biodynamics for education, health and the alleviation of poverty. Learn how to grow safe, sustainable fruit, vegetables, flowers and herbs; even provides a seed bank
Sheffield Vegans
Live a life without use of animal products at all; no meat, dairy or eggs. Try it, it works! Sheffield vegans don't meet as an organisation, but for advice and information see the website which is a great resource for vegans and vegetarians in Sheffield.
South Yorkshire Permaculture Advisory Group
A wide range of free advice available on this sustainable, easy form of gardening and food production. Simon Piper Tel. 01909-561348
The Co-op Café
Update: This sadly appears to be CLOSED now (since 2011)
A community café and arts venue with a garden behind independent from the venue and open to community use. Local artists can display and sell their work, art and craft activities and kid-friendly menus. 229 London Road, Sheffield S2 4NF. Tel. Sheff. 258 1131
Veggie, vegan, cruelty-free Yorkshire
Vegetarian, vegan, and cruelty-free links around Yorkshire, news, events, even the first Vegetarian/Vegan guide to Yorkshire. Well worth a look.
We Love The Earth Centre
The Earth Centre is a large site on a former colliery, next to Conisbrough railway station (on the way to Doncaster). In the 1990s it was opened as an environmental visitor attraction ... then later it closed. What happens to it now is up in the air, so 'We Love The Earth Centre' is campaigning to make sure it's kept for community-based, sustainable use.
Wild Star Food Co.
Sheffield-based online grocery store, with organic home delivery services and exellent ethics. They support the local economy and fair-trade wherever possible, with fair prices and positive long-term trading relationships.
