Lewis introduced a barter board into the New Inn and we quickly adopted the idea and now have one in each site. The idea being that our customers can swap their home-grown produce for drink or food at the Inn. We want local, seasonal ingredients that you have grown in your back gardens or allotments to form part of our menus, we now talk about food yards, not miles.
We were inundated with some of Lincolnshire’s best homegrown produce and created quite a media frenzy along the way! See our video above from the BBC where we featured in 2019.
What could you swap for a pint or two (maybe even pudding for extra special produce!)?
‘There are no set amounts – that’s where the bartering comes in. But if someone comes in with too little, we will send them back to pick some more produce. ‘We also have another board in our dining area which lets our guests know what we’ve used their produce for. Right now we have rhubarb crumble on there.’
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‘There are no set amounts – that’s where the bartering comes in. But if someone comes in with too little, we will send them back to pick some more produce. ‘We also have another board in our dining area which lets our guests know what we’ve used their produce for. Right now we have rhubarb crumble on there.’