Sustainable Stall Award 2025 winners
Non-food stall winner
The Bike Station – find them on Middle Meadow Walk
The Bike Station provide free bicycle health checks, information on their free-to-access community programmes that promote active travel and inclusivity, and have some cargo bikes available for test riding. Their whole business is based on refurbished bikes, taking in donated bikes and using what they can to recycle the rest. They sell second hand parts and offer free bike checks and minor repairs with a focus on encouraging cycling.
All of their bike supplies are donated and all ‘waste’ metal and rubber is recycled. They’re breaking down barriers so more people can cycle with an aim for emission free transport. They also help to teach bike maintenance and operate a free bike library. The whole team walked or cycled to the festival!
Bring your bike to the Meadows Festival and make sure to check them out!
Runners Up:
Bambu Living Sustainably – find them on Coronation Walk C8
Sustainable and plastic-free goodies for everyday life, toiletries, beauty and home. The aim of their Bambu stall is to raise awareness of excessive plastic use and offer better alternatives for beauty, home, self care products that are more ethical, and sustainable for ourselves and for the planet. They believe our health is inevitably interconnected to a clean and healthy environment.
Ambertide Creative – find them on Jawbone Walk JE116
Amber Tide Creative features handmade, ocean- and nature-inspired crochet items crafted entirely by stallholder Jeorgia using sustainable materials, along with original gouache art prints and jewelry made from recycled art projects. She also donates 20% of every sale to ocean clean-up efforts.
Birthlink Thrift Shop – find them near the crossroads at the top of Middle Meadow Walk A125
All of their stock is second hand and donated. At the festival, their stock is clothes from the shop floor that hasn’t sold, giving it another chance. Their ethos is they’d rather give things away than go to landfill as a lot of charities throw stuff away. They also collect a lot of stock from university student halls ensuring it doesn’t go to landfill with a community team to help. Keep an eye out on Meadows Share and make sure to visit them at the festival for a pre-loved bargain!
Food stall winner
The Tuskers Ltd – find them on Melville Drive near the
Serving Sri Lankan rice and curries, The Tuskers started as a zero waste shop, offering cooking classes to the public and private catering events. They slowly moved to cooking and teaching people how to cook with no waste. Their zero waste initiative has been replicated at the Meadows Festival cooking fresh every day with no food waste and ingredients all sourced locally. They work with two local farms (small growers) in Perth where they’re based, always using seasonal
Runner up:
Wild at Heart Toasties – find them on North Meadow Walk N62
Wild at Heart believe that food should be sustainably produced at a fair price which doesn’t cost the world, or the planet. They strive to have as little impact on the environment as they can, by sourcing their produce locally and using only compostable or recyclable serve ware. They recently scored very highly on the prestige audit carried out by the RHS and got singled out as a great example of a Scottish Product, supplied by Scottish producers at a price point that offers good value. At the festival they offer veggie and vegan options, separate all out recycling on site and remove for proper disposal. Their food wastage is minimal, prepared fresh each morning for the day ahead allowing them to keep/ reuse surplus produce for the following day, or freeze for the next event. Their bread ends are taken to a local farm and fed to their lovely pigs. Don’t miss out on these delicious and sustainable toasties!
Shortlisted stalls for the sustainable stall award 2023:
Shortlisters:
We’d like to give a big shout-out and celebrate all of our shortlisted stalls who are doing a lot of great work towards their environmental sustainability:
Non-food stalls:
- Adapted Designs
- Carin o’Mohr berry Wines
- The Sweater Museum
- Orango
- Plants for Peace, Edinburgh CND
- Edinburgh Street Stitchers
Food stalls:
- Alandas Seafood
- Alandas Gelato
- Woodburns Street Food
- Haddows/Bandits Burgers
- Churros Barcelona
- Food Truck Caterers
- Bonnie Burrito
- Harajuku Kitchen
