Hodmedod's

Hodmedod Ltd or Hodmedod's is a British food retail and production company founded in 2012 and based in Halesworth, Suffolk. They specialise in British-grown pulses.

Hodmedod's logo

In 2014 they launched a range of three kinds of tinned British-grown fava beans,[1] and in 2017 they grew a commercial-scale crop of lentils, having been told that this was impossible in the British climate.[2]

In 2016 their organic quinoa, developed in Essex and grown in Suffolk, won Delicious magazine's produce award in the "From the earth (primary)" category.[3][4]

In 2017 they won the BBC Food & Farming Award "Best Food Producers" category.[5] In late 2019 they became the first company to offer British grown Chickpeas for sale in the UK.[6]

The company logo shows a hedgehog. On the company website it is stated that Hodmedod is an East Anglian word for variously a hedgehog, a snail, an ammonite or curls in a girl's hair: all things small and curled up and thus possibly including beans and peas. "We chose the word for the name of our business simply because we like the sound of it, and feel that it reflects our East Anglian backgrounds and represents part of our forgotten heritage, a bit like the fava bean or black badger peas".[7] It is also a Berkshire word for a scarecrow.[8]

References
  1. Nicholls, Luke (11 February 2014). "Hodmedod unveils home-grown British Baked Beans". Big Hospitality. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. "British lentil crop silences the bean counters". The Times. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  3. "delicious. Produce Award winner: Hodmedod's". Delicious. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  4. "British Quinoa". Hodmedod's. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  5. "BBC Food & Farming Awards 2017". BBC. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  6. "UK's first commercial crop of chickpeas harvested in Norfolk". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. "What's a Hodmedod?". Hodmedod. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  8. Lewis-Stempel, John (2016). The Running Hare: the secret life of farmland. Random House. p. 99. ISBN 9780857523266. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
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