Celebrating Welsh food and drink

specialityfoodmagazine.com 25 Grounds For Good ROSIE ORETTI Based in Penarth and established in 2021, Grounds For Good upcycles spent coffee grounds – a prolific food waste. As the only business inWales tackling this problem, the team transforms this undervalued resource into new food and drink that is innovative, sustainable and embraces a circular economy. Many of Grounds For Good’s products are award-winning and entirely new tomarket. The range consists of London Dry Gin, Premium Vodka, Aperoffi – aWelsh aperitif, Vegan Dark Chocolate, Coffee InfusedWelsh Rapeseed Oil, as well as a range of homewares. Every product in the range is proudlymade inWales, vegan, cruelty-free andmade from 100%natural ingredients, and collaborating with fellowWelsh businesses is important to the team– helping to drive theWelsh economy and contribute to the positive reputationWelsh produce holds. A proportion of the social enterprise’s profits are donated to Llamau – a national homelessness charity which supports young adults and women escaping violence – and the business is led by three guiding principles: to be better for you, community and planet. groundsforgood.co.uk HalenMôn / Anglesey Sea Salt DAVID AND ALISON LEA-WILSON In 1997, David and Alison Lea-Wilson left a saucepan of seawater to boil on the Aga in their family kitchen and as the salt crystals started to form, they knew they’d struck culinary gold. They started supplying Halen Môn Sea Salt to Swains, their local butchers in Menai Bridge on the Isle of Anglesey, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today, HalenMôn remains family-run, and theirWelsh sea salt is enjoyed around the world by chefs, food lovers and even Barack Obama. It has been served at the London 2012 Olympics, political summits and royal weddings and is a vital ingredient in Green & Blacks chocolate and Piper’s Crisps. HalenMôn specialises in interesting, unusual and delicious sea salt and seasonings that bring depth and flavour to your cooking. Their famous hand-harvested flakes are organic approved, and have Protected Designation of Origin certification, the same accreditation as Champagne. They also have a state-of-the art smokery where they smoke their sea salt, andmake award-winning ‘Smoked Water’, a hundred percent natural ingredient that brings a savoury depth to a huge range of foods, from sourdough bread to plant-based burgers. The business’s famous condiments – fromBlack Garlic Ketchup to Gherkin Relish – are loved world-over too. HalenMôn exists because they love the landscape of Wales, and they wanted tomake a living there. It makes sense then that they look after it, as well as their team, and they are proud to be B Corp certified, meaning theymeet high standards of social and environmental impact. halenmon.com