If you are like us, and looking to make better gift choices this Christmas, we have a little retail shelf full of gorgeous gifts ideas for the conscious consumer in your life!
From local honey to bee wax food wraps, Irish wood coasters and Irish linen napkins, we showcase some of the best local, sustainable producers and craftspeople in Ireland today!
Check out our 15 Sustainable Gift Ideas, that are all available here in Good Day Deli!
Support local minimal waste + low environmental impact producers!
A voucher for Good Day Deli can be used to buy all of the gifts listed, as well as a tasty treat for your foodie friend.
Guests love our bespoke pottery by Cork ceramicist Luke Sisk. We stock his 6oz and 8oz cups, as well as jugs and sugar bowls that can be combined for a perfect gift.
We have served West Cork Coffee since we opened in Dec 2017. Tony sources organic coffee on our behalf and works with our team to ensure that it will suit the palettes of our guests in Good Day Deli. We always have a selection of retail bags here for our guests to take home.
We also stock home brewing equipment such as V60s, Aeropress and Clever Drippers!
We love the design of the Frank Green reusable coffee cups - minimalist, cool colours and a nifty for your bag with a no spill top. We stock the 8oz cups as well as their reusable water bottle!
Hayley Power is local herbalist who has created a hand blended organic tea especially for Good Day Deli. This fragrant tea is full of holistic benefits and is a warm hug with flavours of apple, lemongrass and chamomile. We stock resuable jars of the Good Day Deli blend, which we will refill for you when you run dry!
Plastics need to go, especially single use cling film. Milbee beeswax food wraps are a perfect solution, and they are made in Ireland!
Chopping boards are perfect gift, and can be bought in many places. But be aware that often the wood is not Irish and potentially not from a sustainably managed forestry. Mark Donnelly and Sara Leslie have hand made these incredible chopping boards and coasters with Ash and Oak trees from Cork. These carefully designed pieces are a rare treat with a real story.
We use Hivemind Honey on our Hibiscus Poached Pear Pancakes and the flavour is incomparable to any other honey we’ve tasted to date! They are Irish beekeepers, based in Myrtleville, and are passionate about responsibly harvested, local honey.
Steph from Punch and Fable has one of the best colour palettes in the country, and we get to wear these uniquely colourful earings everyday to uplift our spirits. We stock a wide range of colours and sizes which are hand made in small batches by Steph, a local Cork girl!
Enrich and Endure’s Irish Linen aprons have been a part of Good Day Deli’s identity since the very beginning. Bring your A-Game to Christmas dinner with these colourful linen napkins that are handmade here in Ireland.
Challenges to our biodiversity are everywhere. We need more native flowers and native trees!
This pack of 20 seed bombs contains Irish native seeds that can be strewn across your garden to create a colourful explosion of Irish wildflowers!
Our lovely neighbour Sean in Badly Made Books creates these beautiful notebooks and planners working with local artists and using recycled paper. These are a super little stocking filler to kick start a sustainable 2020!
A shameless plug for my sister’s personalised book company Writing For Tiny. These bespoke books for Children are all about communicating changes, worries and milestones to the smallies in your life and can only be purchased and personalised online at www.writingfortiny.com. These hardback books are keepsakes to be treasured.
Last but not least, local screen print artist Emma O’ Hara is currently exhibiting “Heat” in Good Day Deli, to draw awareness to climate change. Emma’s screen prints are hand made here in Cork in Cork Printmakers and all pieces currently in Good Day Deli are for sale, with 100% of payment going directly to Emma.
Happy Christmas Everyone! Here’s to a sustainable 2020, with a commitment to protecting the environment now and for our future generations!