Pieminister Blog

We’ve teamed up with Forestry England to plant a Pieminister forest. For every plant-based pie or patty bought we’ll donate money towards planting trees. This is all part of our project, Eat Pies: Plant Trees. So the more plant-based eating we do, the bigger the forest will grow (just call us PINEminister). This is all with the read more …

Turning over a new leaf this New Year? Join the Vegang! Our new vegan pie, Evergreen, is the best way to get your greens this January. Green by name and truly green by nature, Evergreen is packed full with kale, spinach & edamame beans with ginger, garlic and lime. We care about our impact on read more …

Eat a pie with us this festive season & you’ll leave feeling warm and fuzzy (and very full, of course). But this won’t be just down to the pie. With every meal in December, we’re giving away seeds so that you can grow your very own Christmas tree. Got 99 problems but a birch ain’t read more …

Back in the summer of 2015, we teamed up with our Stokes Croft neighbour Temwa, a community-led charity operating in Malawi.  Our plan was to sell enough pies to fund a forest in Malawi, so we made two special summer recipes using the best Somerset cider, kindly donated to us by Orchard Pig. Temwa have read more …

The time has come for our more ‘classic’ pies to move over for a week, to make room for a new pie to take the spotlight. You see, we’ve been busy bees in our kitchens, creating our first ever insect pie, for British Pie Week. We looked to Mexico for inspiration for The Hopper (crickets are a Street Food favourite there) read more …

#LittleActsofPieness Since the start of June we’ve been inviting community-spirited people to apply for free pies for good causes.  These random acts of kindness (or Little Acts of Pie-ness) are helping raise funds for good causes and making people smile. We originally pledged to give away more than 10,000 surplus pies over the summer. And we’ve already donated over 8000 – in the first month! read more …