Hodmedod's

{{Short description|British food retail and production company}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox company

|logo = Hodmedods logo 2018.png

|name = Hodmedod Ltd

|founded = {{start date and age|2012}}

|hq_location_city = Brampton, Suffolk

|hq_location_country = United Kingdom

|website = {{url|hodmedods.co.uk}}

}}

Hodmedod Ltd or Hodmedod's is a British food retail and production company founded in 2012 and based in Brampton in Suffolk. They specialise in British-grown pulses, grains and seeds. The company grew out of the Norwich Resilient Food Project, a community initiative initiated by Transition City Norwich{{cite web |url=http://transitionnorwichnews.blogspot.com/p/who-we-are.html |website=Transition City Norwich |title=Who We Are |access-date=2020-11-25 |archive-date=2021-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125154751/http://transitionnorwichnews.blogspot.com/p/who-we-are.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=Mean Beans |url=http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2012/03/mean-beans.html |url-status=live |access-date=24 November 2020 |website=Transition Norwich Blog |date=9 March 2012 |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031093358/http://transitionnorwich.blogspot.com/2012/03/mean-beans.html }} which asked whether a small city could feed itself and, if so, how diets and land use might need to change.

In 2014 they launched a range of three kinds of tinned British-grown fava beans,{{Cite news |last=Nicholls |first=Luke |date=11 February 2014 |title=Hodmedod unveils home-grown British Baked Beans |work=Big Hospitality |url=https://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Article/2014/02/11/Hodmedod-unveils-home-grown-British-Baked-Beans |accessdate=26 February 2018}} and in 2017 they grew a commercial-scale crop of lentils, having been told that this was impossible in the British climate.{{Cite news |date=31 August 2017 |title=British lentil crop silences the bean counters |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/hodmedod-s-lentil-crop-silences-the-bean-counters-m7pb3cdqq |access-date=26 February 2018 |archive-date=27 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227035601/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hodmedod-s-lentil-crop-silences-the-bean-counters-m7pb3cdqq |url-status=live }}

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.{{Cite web |title=delicious. Produce Award winner: Hodmedod's |date=25 September 2016 |url=http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/stories/delicious-produce-award-winner-hodmedods/ |publisher=Delicious |accessdate=26 February 2018 |archive-date=27 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227040525/http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/stories/delicious-produce-award-winner-hodmedods/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=British Quinoa |url=https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/british-quinoa |publisher=Hodmedod's |accessdate=26 February 2018 |archive-date=27 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227034825/https://hodmedods.co.uk/products/british-quinoa |url-status=live }}

In 2017 they won the BBC Food & Farming Award "Best Food Producers" category.{{Cite web |title=BBC Food & Farming Awards 2017 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebc6gw/live/cqfzp6 |publisher=BBC |accessdate=26 February 2018 |archive-date=21 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171021223327/https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ebc6gw/live/cqfzp6 |url-status=live }}

In late 2019 they became the first company to offer British grown Chickpeas for sale in the UK.{{Cite web |title=UK's first commercial crop of chickpeas harvested in Norfolk |website=TheGuardian.com |date=29 August 2019 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/29/uk-first-commercial-crop-chickpeas-harvested-norfolk |accessdate=9 January 2020 |archive-date=2 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191202055124/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/29/uk-first-commercial-crop-chickpeas-harvested-norfolk |url-status=live }}