Slow Food in Wales

Bwyd da, glân a theg i bawb Good, Clean and Fair Food for all

We celebrate everything that is wonderful about Welsh food and drink, and we work to make it accessible to everyone. Producers, farmers, cooks, eaters. We are all activists.

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Part of a global movementSlow Food works in more than 160 countries. Wales is our square mile.

Good Da

Food that tastes of where it comes from. Flavour, freshness and pleasure, made by people who care how it turns out.

Clean Glân

Produced in a way that protects our land, our seas and our biodiversity, and keeps Welsh heritage intact for the people who come next.

Fair Teg

Accessible prices for those who eat it, fair conditions and fair pay for those who grow, catch, rear and cook it.

Heirloom tomatoes in a wire basket, in reds, yellows and deep purples

Croeso · Welcome

A national group, working at the level of the square mile

Slow Food Cymru Wales is part of the wider Slow Food in the UK and Slow Food International movements. We are a national group working at regional levels, developing our networks across the country, with one simple mission: good, clean and fair food for all. Everyone is welcome.

Being part of a global network with thousands of members worldwide gives you a genuine opportunity to meet like-minded people. We link the pleasure of good food with a commitment to the local community and the environment. We want you to reconnect with where your food comes from and how it is produced, so the choices you make start to matter.

Wales is renowned worldwide for the quality of its produce. From the land and the sea, Welsh products are sought after everywhere. Our aim is to preserve that biodiversity and heritage for future generations.

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Ark of Taste · Arch Blas

Seven Welsh foods worth saving

The Ark of Taste seeks out the forgotten foods that are in danger of being lost to fast-paced lives and intensive production.

By finding these products, telling their story and championing the small-scale producers behind them, we can safeguard traditional Welsh food and bring it back to the market. Seven Welsh products are already aboard the Ark, and we are working to add more.

Explore the Welsh Ark

Sheep grazing on a green headland above a Welsh estuary

Welsh mountain sheep grazing rough upland pasture

South Wales Mountain Sheep

Defaid Mynydd De Cymru

A hardy hill breed from the valleys and uplands of south Wales, shaped by centuries of grazing on rough mountain pasture.

Livestock

A still life of farmhouse cheeses, cut to show their rind and paste

Traditional Caerphilly

Caws Caerffili

A fresh, crumbly cow’s milk cheese with deep roots in the mining valleys. Farmhouse versions, matured properly, are a world away from the industrial block.

Dairy

Heritage apples in a crate after picking

Bardsey Island Apple

Afal Ynys Enlli

Traced to a single old tree on Ynys Enlli, off the tip of the Llŷn Peninsula, and believed to be found nowhere else in the world.

Fruit

Welsh mountain sheep on a coastal hillside

Badger Face Welsh Mountain Sheep

Defaid Torddu a Torwen

Distinctively marked mountain sheep, known as Torddu and Torwen for their dark and light bellies. An old Welsh hill breed.

Livestock

Pedigree Welsh Pig

Mochyn Cymreig

A white, lop-eared native breed and one of Britain’s rarest pigs. Prized by butchers and curers for the quality of its meat and fat.

Livestock

Penclawdd Cockles

Cocos Pen-clawdd

Gathered by hand from the sands of the Burry Inlet on the Gower, by families who have worked the same beds for generations.

Seafood

Ripe blue-black plums, one halved to show its amber flesh, on weathered white wood

Denbigh Plum

Eirin Dinbych

Grown in and around Denbigh in north Wales and almost nowhere else, ripening late and celebrated locally every autumn.

Fruit

Hands choosing a punnet of cherries at a farmers market

Know one we have missed?

Beth am hwn?

The Ark grows by nomination. If you produce, sell or simply remember a Welsh food at risk of disappearing, we want to hear about it.

Nominate a product

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Cooks Alliance · Cynghrair Cogyddion

The cooks who put our values on the plate

Through the Cooks Alliance we work with local cooks and chefs who share our values and who champion sustainable food and local producers. We encourage them to build their menus around ingredients from the Ark of Taste, so the foods worth saving end up where they belong: in front of people, being eaten.

We are actively looking for new members, and applications are very welcome.

About the Cooks Alliance

Campaigns · Ymgyrchoedd

What we are working on

Slow Food recognises the strong connections between people, planet, plate, politics and culture. These are the things we are pushing on right now.

Friends sharing coffee and cake around a table

Time for Lunch

A UK-wide campaign asking all of us to take time for lunch. One day a week, step away from the desk and eat with a friend, a colleague or your family.

A path winding through a misty green Welsh valley

Milltir Sgwâr

Our square mile. A series of talks, debates and communal meals exploring what local food really means to the people of Wales, from lockdown through the cost of living crisis.

Welsh cakes cooling on a rack, dusted with sugar

September Local

Our September campaign to eat local. Watch this space, and follow us on social media to find out how to take part.

Our Supporters · Ein Cefnogwyr

The businesses standing behind us

Salt makers, beekeepers, butchers, distillers, market traders and cooks. These are the Welsh businesses who put their name to good, clean and fair food.

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Join Us

Ymunwch â niAre you up for helping shape the movement in Wales?

We are a group of like-minded people with a passion for the way our food is produced, and we are growing our network across Wales. The more members we have, the more we can do.

We work on the basis that everyone matters: producers, farmers, chefs, consumers. Let’s make a difference together.

See membership options Business supporter

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Membership of a global movement active in more than 160 countries, with thousands of members across the UK.
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Invitations to local events, communal meals and talks across Wales, plus national and international gatherings such as Terra Madre.
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Our occasional newsletter: events, chef interviews, campaigns and what is happening in Welsh food.
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A direct hand in protecting Welsh biodiversity and food heritage for the people who come after us.

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Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about Slow Food Cymru Wales, or if you would like to talk about becoming a supporter. You can also email us directly at info@slowfoodcymruwales.org.

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