GENERAL SEARCH SITES
Established in 1992, Cegin Cymru offers a wide range of Welsh produce that can be purchased online. These include whole hampers, chocolate and cheeses. They also have shops, tearooms and even a restaurant located across Wales, details of which can be found on their website below.
www.welsh-food.com
You will find everything from recipes to local food fairs and producer listings at foodwales.com, a wonderfully designed website from the Welsh Development Agency (WDA). You can follow the ‘cheese trail’ by accessing the interactive map and you can plan a great night out by dining at your nearest establishment that has been awarded the Taste of Wales Quality Assurance. This site is absolutely packed full of information, news and even boasts a library of publications!
www.foodwales.com
and its subsidiary links: www.cheesewales.com | www.tasteofwales.com
Welsh Food Traders has a small directory of Welsh-based suppliers of fresh goods such as beef, dairy produce, dry goods and smoked foods. The food producers listed have competent websites and do trade electronically.
www.welshfoodtraders.com
Food isn’t the only thing available on the Wales Direct website, which is owned and run by Welsh business people and won an e-commerce award in 2002 as the best regional trader. Their product ranges are ever expanding and they pride themselves on selecting goods from Welsh producers.
www.wales-direct.co.uk
If you want to find out your nearest supplier of fresh produce then visit the ‘Big Barn’ website. This operates as a search engine and all you need to do is enter your postcode and the mile radius that you are prepared or able to travel. This is a useful tool and provides you with all the contact details you will need to locate your desired establishment.
www.bigbarn.co.uk
Another search engine that you can use to locate local suppliers is:
www.foodfirst.co.uk/suppliers.htm
This link is taken from The Foody online magazine, whose primary aim is to promote local suppliers and producers of food all over the UK and Ireland.
This first link gives contact details of some Welsh producers:
www.thefoody.com/regions/walesproduce.html