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Have you ever wondered what makes organic vegetables so special? This video takes you straight to Royal Oak Farm in Lancashire to meet Peter and Cheryl and learn why they chose to go organic — and how caring for the soil transforms the quality and flavour of their...

This Saturday sees our open day! It runs from 10-4 at the Old Sunday School, Roe St, SK11 6UT.  Full details below What's on? - Our refill shop is open from 10-4. If you haven't been before, you can browse our product range on our shop website. - You can meet our...

Scoop and Scales are excited to announce the launch of our eco competition. This has been made possible by our commitment to profit for purpose   Here is everything you need to know about the competition:   What's it all about? Scoop and Scales want to get...

It is with joy that we now have a very lovely range of Fruits of the Forest goods within our shop.  They specialise in preserves, cordials, jams and vinegars made with abandoned local fruits and native plants and are a great addition to our local suppliers.  ...

Despite Lockdown preventing the launch of a Repair Café for Macclesfield there have been exciting developments taking place. Discussions have taken place to see if the Repair Café could be attached to Scoop and Scales as the two ventures share many of the same...

We are pleased and proud as punch to have some of the incredible work of Illustrator Dick Vincent on display and for sale at Scoop & Scales.  Dick is a Macclesfield based artist with an international following.  He has a love of nature and the great outdoors and...

We have a colourful and mouthwatering supply of the irresistible Neary's Sweets. Neary’s mission of leading the race for sweet companies to clean up their act whilst supporting new suppliers to find solutions to plastic alternatives is admirable and one that we are...

Andrea is one of our committee members and as well as working for a children’s charity (and being one of the most warm and positive people you could ever meet), she also happens to be a local potter (@hendrypotters). Amongst many other lovely items, she makes...

Harry’s Hot Chocolates are, without doubt, a necessary treat for the winter months... and Scoop and Scales are a happy supplier. We basically couldn’t decide which flavours to stock so got them all,  leaving you, the customers, with this terrible dilemma! We speak...

As you are carving out your artistic creations this Halloween, don’t waste the lovely flesh from the inside of your pumpkins.                                         Here are two lovely recipes that use the seasonal pumpkin:  for the virtuous, a healthy and nutritious...

Did you know that a cashew nut is actually a seed that comes from a tree and grows out of the bottom of a cashew apple? Nope, nor did we!! We were also surprised to discover that cashews are not as innocuous as one might think and the truth of their journey to the UK...

It’s definitely hoodie weather isn’t it? We happen to have the softest and cosiest range of ‘Inland Sea’ clothing for sale at Scoop and Scales which are happily made ethically and from 100% recycled material and organic cotton. Adam, the founder and creative talent...

We are quite (very) excited to have some very special loose leaf teas in our midst. Based in Manchester, Bohea Teas was founded by husband and wife team Chris and Sophie.  Combining a joint passion for tea with Sophie’s background in horticulture their aim is “to help...

           We are plastic free!”   Something which I’m sure we long for all shops and retail outlets to be able to shout. For the time being, striving for the best we can do is ‘good enough’. Matt Todd, manager at the fantastic Scoop and Scales gives his opinion....

Paul Beardmore of Happy Valley Honey has about 120 colonies of bees, divided between 10 apiaries situated at various points around Macclesfield Borough. He works largely single handedly, with passion and dedication to ensure the honey produced is direct from the hives...

Did you know that 27,000 trees are cut down daily to make your average toilet paper?! Not so with WGAP, an eco-friendly toilet paper made without trees. When you buy this paper, not only are you helping the environment, but communities too; 50% of profits to the...

“That’s an expensive bar of chocolate!” we hear you proclaim – but we would argue that this is in fact the fair price for (without doubt) the most delicious and ethical chocolate out there…. Please read on: Most widely produced chocolate starts with millions of...

Did you know that a plastic toothbrush takes over 400 years to decompose?   The Sutcliffe Toothbrush Company are a Cheshire family run company with environmentally conscious dental products designed by Daniel (who happens to also be a UK based dentist). Their aim...