Cornwall’s food safari boom

The three‑day Great Cornish Food Safari was reported on 24 March 2026 and brought 20 industry delegates to sites across Cornwall as part of the Great Cornish Food “Raising the Bar” programme. (cornishstuff.com) Delegates toured county producers including Lynher Dairies — the maker of Cornish Yarg now certified as a B Corp — and saw operations that followed the business’s recent sustainability accolades. (bcorporation.net) Visitors watched Chocolarder demonstrate small‑batch chocolate production and showed how the company repurposes by‑products such as orange peel and gin‑soaked figs into finished lines. (cornishstuff.com)(chocolarder.com) The safari aligned with the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Agrifood Strategy launched 24 March 2025, which sets a ten‑year roadmap and records that the agrifood sector supplies roughly 20% of local jobs and represents a quarter of Cornish businesses. (greatcornishfood.co.uk)(southwestfarmer.co.uk) Great Cornish Food’s Raising the Bar programme was created with more than £500,000 from the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme, and a linked small‑grants scheme has already approved awards of up to £5,000 to around 25 local producers, including a vineyard on the Isles of Scilly. (businesscornwall.co.uk 1)(businesscornwall.co.uk 2) The Great Cornish Food Store that hosted the safari works with about 200 local suppliers and a team of roughly 40 staff, and appointed Richard Bain as managing director in November 2025 to steer its development and wider industry programmes. (falmouthpacket.co.uk)(businesscornwall.co.uk) Planned follow‑up activity from the Raising the Bar project includes a new Great Cornish Food Awards and a proposed Great Cornish Food Academy intended to build skills, innovation capacity and trade links across Cornwall’s food and drink businesses. (businesscornwall.co.uk)(cornwallfoodanddrink.co.uk)