Hodmedod's facts for kids
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| Founded | 2012 |
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Brampton, Suffolk
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United Kingdom
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Hodmedod Ltd or Hodmedod's is a British company that sells and produces food. It was started in 2012 and is based in Brampton, a town in Suffolk, England. The company focuses on growing and selling special British-grown foods. These include pulses (like beans and peas), grains, and seeds.
Hodmedod's began from a project called the Norwich Resilient Food Project. This project looked at how a city could grow its own food. It also explored how diets and land use might need to change for this to happen.
In 2014, Hodmedod's started selling tinned British-grown fava beans. They offered three different kinds. Later, in 2017, they did something many thought was impossible. They grew a large crop of lentils in Britain. People believed lentils could not grow well in the British climate.
The company has also won several awards for its products. In 2016, their organic quinoa won a special award. This quinoa was grown in Suffolk and developed in Essex. It won the "From the earth (primary)" category in Delicious magazine's produce awards. In 2017, Hodmedod's also won the "Best Food Producers" award. This was part of the BBC Food & Farming Awards. By late 2019, they made history again. They became the first company to sell British-grown Chickpeas in the UK.
What Does "Hodmedod" Mean?
The company's logo shows a hedgehog. The name Hodmedod is an old word from East Anglia, a region in eastern England. On their website, the company explains what the word means. It can refer to a hedgehog, a snail, or an ammonite (an old sea creature). It can also mean curls in a girl's hair. All these things are small and often curled up. This makes the name a good fit for beans and peas, which are also small and round.
The company chose the name because they liked how it sounded. They also felt it showed their roots in East Anglia. It represents a part of their forgotten history, much like some of the old British beans they sell. Interestingly, "Hodmedod" is also a word from Berkshire, another part of England. There, it means a scarecrow.
