Visit Malton’s top six tips for a sustainable Christmas
With Christmas commonly known as the time of excess, the team at Visit Malton has come up with some top tips for making your festive season more sustainable – lowering your food miles, minimising waste and supporting local businesses.
Reduce, reuse, recycle with the help of Ryedale Remakes. some very ingenious Christmas elves have been busy reclaiming and transforming life’s cast-offs into top quality homeware and furnishings – gifts that can’t be bought anywhere else on the high street or online. With a wave of their magic wands (and some skilled craftwork), discarded glazing become stunning stained-glass windows, scraps of fabric become the cutest of soft toys, everyday objects like bottles or jars become exquisitely hand-painted table decorations, and ‘odds and ends’ become jewellery. You’ll never think about recycling in the same way.
Caring Cleaning Products
Minimise the use of harmful chemicals with beauty and cleaning products from Cosy Cottage. Products are handmade in Malton by local artisans, with a special range of natural Christmas gifts, from essential oil blend diffusers and paper-wrapped soaps to soy candles and biodegradable cleaning sprays.
Local Produce
Forget the supermarket for your Christmas turkey – and even consider ditching the turkey altogether and opt for locally-reared meat. Goose, pheasants, grouse, guinea fowl, duck and venison are all available from Derek Fox Butchers – and if you live within 13 miles of Malton, they will deliver to your door! Your mouth will water at their pork and hickory stilton sausages, Truffle Pork Pockets or Cranberry Camembert Minions, too – handmade in store.
Refill Shops
Avoid plastic packaging with a visit to Scoops Ingredients Shop – all your essentials for Christmas baking that you can pop straight into reusable jars. And unlike the supermarkets, they guarantee not to run out of seasonal essentials like raisins and ground almonds! A host of other nuts, seeds and healthy ingredients, including gluten and dairy-free alternatives - are also available from The Beecham Weigh on Yorkersgate.
Sustainable Travel Options
Travel into Malton the sustainable way, too! Tickets on Coastliner buses are just £3 per journey, whether you are travelling from Leeds, York or Scarborough. Or let the train take the strain, as Malton is a popular stop on the Liverpool to Scarborough line – making a great destination for a trip out from Warrington, Manchester or Huddersfield.
For more inspirational ideas for a special Christmas – and to find Malton’s other butchers, bakers and candlestick makers - go to
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