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We have a twitter account that we will be using to post any events that we are doing, advertise any special offers, tell you about our new products or just to say what we are up to.

The account is http://twitter.com/hipohyfryd

Events that hipo hyfryd are selling at

Farmers Market - Cardiff - Roath and Riverside

I will be going to the Roath and Riverside farmers market. I will be doing them once a month, except during the warm months of May - September.

Roath - when: third Saturday of the month - 9:30am to 1pm

Riverside - when: second Sunday of the month - 10am - 2pm

Farmers Market - Caerphilly

This market is usually held on the second Saturday of the month. The above link will take you to their site where all their stalls for the next year are stored.

when: second Saturday of the month - 9:30am to 1pm

Places that you can buy hipo hyfryd goodies

Cardiff - Pulse Wholefood 171 Kings Road Canton Cardiff CF11 9DE	Pulse Wholefoods offers a wide range of organic fruit, vegetables, cruelty free and environmentally friendly cleaning products, organic wines & beers, and wholefoods. Pulse specializes in products suitable for people requiring wheat/gluten free, sugar, dairy, GM free, macrobiotic, vegan & organic foods. More importantly is that they sell naturally pink salt.
Cardiff - Hungry Planet 142 Clifton street, Cardiff 02920 440504	My local wholefood shop. It reminds me about going into a sweet shop when I was kid as they have lots of lovely things like mangos, goji berries and nuts in a pic n mix, "have as much as you want", style. A good shop but sadly they have decided to start selling dead animals.

Machynlleth - CAT quarry shop Heol Maengwyn, Machynlleth, Powys	The Centre for Alternative Technology's shop in Machynlleth. They sell a wonderful selection of tasty and rich ingredients for cooking, beautiful sweets and chocolates and local cakes. They sell The Happy Hippo and The Voluptuous Vole recipe book.
Machynlleth - Blasau Deli 6 Penrallt Street, Machynlleth, Powys	This small deli has a wonderful selection of food including freshly made nibbles that I used to buy when I had my picnics by the river side. They stock our chocolates during christmas and occasionally throughout the year.
Aberystwyth - Treehouse 14 Baker Street, Aberystwyth SY23 2BJ Tel: 01970 615791	They aim to provide a one-stop organic shop that stocks over 1000 different food products, as many as possible sourced locally. A fantastic addition to their services is their bicycle delivery service. They only stock our chocolates during Christmas.

Westmorland - Farm Shop East Westmorland Services Southbound M6 Tebay Penrith CA10 3SB	Tebay Services is the only family owned and run motorway services in the UK. It is located one mile north of Junction 38 on the M6 motorway in Cumbria - the Lake District. In their shop they have an extensive range of carefully selected local and artisan specialities

Arch House Deli Arch House Boyces Avenue Bristol BS8 4AA 0117 974 1166	Bristol based award winning emporium of gourmet delicatessen food and wine from around the world. They stock our truffles during Christmas and occasionally throughout the year.

West Wales - The Welsh Gold Centre Tregaron, Dyfed, SY25 6JL	This shop sells lovely welsh based food and gifts. They have a beautiful range of silver jewellery. They stock our truffles.

Vegetarian and Vegan foudation	The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation – or VVF – is a registered charity. It was set up to monitor and to explain the increasing amount of scientific research linking diet to health – providing accurate information on which to make informed choices. They sell my recipe books.
Animal Aid	Animal Aid is the UK's largest animal rights group and one of the longest established in the world, having been founded in 1977. They campaign peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promote a cruelty-free lifestyle. They are also the fabulous people that run my favourite event of the year - london chritmas without cruelty. They sell my truffles

Vegan community

Vegan society	The Vegan Society's homepage

Cruelty free community	CrueltyFree.com is an online community of compassionate, animal loving, people.

Vegan Village	The vegan village is filled with all things vegan. If you are looking for a company that sells shoes or for that elusive recipe this is the place to visit.

Campaigning groups

Europeans for Medical Progress	Europeans for Medical Progress is an independent, non-profit-making organisation of scientists and medical professionals. Their goal is to protect human health by promoting human-specific medical research. They seem to be very skeptical about the practice of animal testing and are campaigning to get the government to perform proper scientific tests to finally reveal how outdated and potentially deadly animal testing is for human health.

The Dr Hadwen Trust	The Dr Hadwen Trust is the UK's leading medical research charity funding exclusively non-animal research techniques to replace animal experiments, benefiting people and animals. Personally I have been a big fan of this oraganization and have been inspired by the amazing work they have achieved.

Ethical consumer products

Earthpure	Suppliers of soaps, essential oils, massage oils and other cosmetics. I use these products myself and highly recommend them to anyone looking for that special gift or just a bit of personal pampering. Earthpure products are made with a passion. Giving radiance and sensuality without cruelty to animals and our environment.

Ecological hosting	Ethically run, friendly, vegetarian owned, reliable and responsible Internet hosting company. All offices and computer equipment powered by electricity supplied from renewable sources. Hipo hyfryd uses this as the home of our web site. On a proffesional side they are extremely helpful and fast. On a personal side they are very freindly and enjoyable to chat with.

eto	eto offer feasibility, building design for both new build and existing buildings and consultancy services. We bring an approach to building design deeply rooted in reducing energy consumption energy, and promoting ecological design We used this environment architect to bring greater energy efficiency to our premises

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