Local Produce

Local to us also means supporting our local community and other small independent businesses like Newham and Maskells bakeries which supply us with fresh bread daily.

Or as with organic pioneer Mr Baker, who until recently brought his own grown vegetables and set up a stall outside the shop.

A sense of community is important to us, and we continue to support local groups and events, as so many have supported us since the seventies.

Local Food Producers

We aim to consider food miles as a major factor in how we order. Here listed are just a few of the local food producers we buy from:

Phil’s Pestos- Only 7 miles from Cambridge, Phil makes delicious fresh pestos, great for dipping or for pasta.

Waterland Organic Eggs- Willow Farm in Lode produces delicious eggs from organic free range chickens.

Snakehall Farm (The Prospect’s Trust)- An organic accredited farm which aims to raise public awareness of the potential of people with learning difficulties, providing a range of work experience and training placements in professional garden maintenance within local communities, producing great Organic veg & fresh herbs.

Maud Foster Mill- In Boston, Lincolnshire, make organic flour in the traditional way by wind-power in the finest and one of the tallest windmills in the British Isles.

Community

Arjuna has gone from strength to strength in a period that has seen small food shops of all kinds increasingly squeezed out by supermarkets. Out of town shopping tends to be a depersonalised experience; small shops offer a sense of community, and indeed are often central to local communities. Many of our customers like the fact that at Arjuna they will be recognised by the workers, are likely to bump into friends, and can pick up information about local events. We aim to offer a friendly and personal service, and enjoy ourselves at the same time.

We currently are selling postcards, woodcuts by local artist Sam Motherwell, showing a spiffing depiction of the outside of Arjuna.

Combating Climate Change

We feel that out of town shopping is also undesirable because it encourages the growth of the already obscenely bloated car economy; supermarkets add further to traffic pollution through their centralized distribution systems, which involve produce which could be obtained locally being taken half way across the country. In contrast, Arjuna tries to source its produce as locally as possible.