Silver & Green came to life in 2007 when we decided the time had come to turn a passion for food and the Mediterranean in to a family business. So here we are…proud producers, importers and wholesalers of authentic Mediterranean delicacies!
Who we are
Once upon a time ‘We’, was just me, Dan… I had a van, some help from my dad and an obsession with food and travel in lands kissed by the sunshine and the Mediterranean sea!
Then ‘We’, became me and Rachel. That was 2015… now we are a dedicated team of 12 supplying retailers and foodservice teams around the UK with the best the Med has to offer.
Our Values
Simple – Simple lists of ingredients and easy straight forward relationships seem to get us to the best and most consistent products.
Open – Things aren’t always perfect but we will always tell you what we are doing and what we are trying to do to make a change.
Responsible – We all have to take responsibility for our environment. It’s the only one we’ve got and it’s under pressure.
Ambitious – Always looking to do more…increasing our range, improving supply chains paying the national ‘Living Wage’, we want to excel in all areas
Team Work
Teamwork makes the dream work and we are extremely grateful (and fortunate!) to have built such an ace team here over the last few years.
Being a National Living Wage employer is just one part of our charter to provide an exceptional working environment for all at Silver & Green. This is something we are working on extending back through our supply chain to all our growers and producers.
Our Ingredients
It has always been our intention from the very start to get as close to the grower of our ingredients as possible. This led us to Halkidiki in Northern Greece and then on to the groves of Kalamata in the Southern Peloponnese. There we found growers of olives not only able to provide us with fantastic ingredients, but more importantly with hundreds of years of accumulated knowledge.
Our journey has continued since then taking us across the Adriatic to Italy where we have found a bounty of fabulous produce. From sun dried tomatoes and artichokes in Puglia to balsamic onions from Abruzzo and on to the basil fields of Liguria where we source the base ingredient for our fresh basil pesto.
Since then we have continued west into Spain on the hunt for extra virgin olive oil, authentic Catalonian alioli, and giant Andalusian ‘Gordal’. The intention to get as close to the grower of the ingredient remains the driver behind our selection process, as does our intention to keep the journey going!