FRUIT & VEG ■ ■ Grow Wild Box Scheme, Fruit & Veg, Butcher, Organic Foods Unit 8 Block 3, Whiteside Industrial Estate, Bathgate
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■ Mollinsburn Organics Deli, Box Scheme, Organic Foods 33a Cumbernauld Road, Mollinsburn, Glasgow 07847 181 063 www.mollinsburnorganics.com Mon–Wed, Fri/Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm. Web/mail order.
Mollinsburn sells ethical, organic produce through its retail outlet, online store and fruit and vegetable boxes. The former has a vast array of organic produce, including fruit, vegetables, wholefoods, meat, poultry and dairy. Web orders can include meats, pâtés, preserves, sauces, local cheeses, fresh hand-made coleslaw and gift hampers for special occasions – all wrapped prettily in recycled packaging. Ethical eating made easy – order from home and have it delivered to your door each Friday.
■ Peckham’s Naturally Deli, Wholefoods, Fruit & Veg, Organic Foods 139 Hyndland Road, Glasgow 0141 357 0398, www.peckhams.co.uk Mon–Sat 8am–8pm; Sun 9am–8pm. Web/mail order.
Peckham’s is known for a good wine rack, but in its Peckham’s Naturally offshoot, the focus is on good living rather than good drinking. Half the shop is taken up with fresh fruit and vegetables while the main fridge is stocked with dairy goods, local organic meat and other wholesome ingredients. In response to the demands of its catchment area, there’s a wide selection of organic baby foods, including the very nearly complete range of Ella’s Kitchen products.
■ Roots and Fruits Wholefoods, Box Scheme, Fruit & Veg, Organic Foods • 355 Byres Road, Glasgow 0141 339 5164 Mon–Sun 8am–7pm. • 455–457 Great Western Road, Glasgow 0141 334 3530/339 3077 Greengrocer: Mon–Sun 8am–7pm. Deli: Mon–Sat 8am–7pm; Sun 10am–6pm.
A botanical institution in the West End, Roots and Fruits could be a better place to pick up your fresh fruit and veg than a plastic-wrapped corporate over-hyped chain. Owner Garth Gulland has been in the business for over 30 years, and even
owns a small farm – perhaps why the impressive array of fruit and vegetables that he sources locally when in season is so good. There is news abound of changes with another West End shop to open in autumn 2010.
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Originally a dairy farm, Allanhill converted to fruit more than a decade ago, and now sells a seasonal range of strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries and raspberries in their farm shop, as well as local meat and eggs. They make jam and produce a line of home baked goods, both of which are served in their tearoom. There’s also an outdoor play area for children.
■ Drumullan Organics Box Scheme, Organic Foods Drumullan, By Girvan, Ayrshire 01465 713080, www.drumullan.co.uk
Drumullan farm is situated just outside Girvan and delivers veggie boxes throughout South Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. Its strictly organic pwroduce is grown on the farm and you can pick and choose between different varieties of fruit and vegetables to make up your very own tailored box. The farm is a bit of an act of love and the sweet strawberries it carefully nurtures each season are a real highlight.
■ Stair Organic Growers Box Scheme, Organic Foods 11 The Yetts, Tarbolton, Mauchline 01292 541 369 www.organicgrowing.com Web/mail order.
Stair Organics provides fruit and vegetable boxes, herbs from their garden, local organic meat and essential store-cupboard staples, delivered to areas across Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Glasgow. It is particularly proud of its own apple orchard, planted back in 1996, which is now starting to give a decent crop each year. Not everything is from Scotland, but it is all certified organic. It is also happy for customers to mix and match to their heart’s content, in order to create a box that suits them.
■ Tweed Valley Organics Box Scheme, Poultry/Eggs The Old Jail House, Bank Street, Greenlaw 01361 810503 www.tweedvalleyorganics.co.uk Web/mail order.
Based north of Kelso, Tweed Valley Organics deliver 100 per cent organic fruit and vegetable boxes to the Eastern Borders and further into northern Northumberland. In addition to veg grown on their own land and eggs from their free-range, organic hens, they can supply a wide range of meat, bread and store-cupboard essentials.
■ Allanhill Farm Shop Farm Shop, Fruit & Veg Allanhill Farm, St Andrews, Fife 01334 477999, www.allanhill.co.uk May–Sep: Mon–Sun 9am–5pm. Café, Web/mail order.
■ Ardross Farm Shop Preserves/Honey, Farm Shop, Box Scheme, Beef Ardross Farm Shop, Elie, Fife 01333 330415, www.ardrossfarm.co.uk Summer: Mon–Sat 9am–5.30pm; Sun 9am–4pm. Winter: Wed–Sat 9am–5.30pm; Sun 9am–4pm. Closed Mon & Tue. Web/mail order.
Set in an old steading and attractively designed with old stone, wood and glass, Ardross Farm shop started off as a way of selling the vegetables and traditionally raised beef from the surrounding fields. Despite its classy appearance, the ownbrand, local and British basics continue to impress, whether it’s dirty veg in baskets as you enter the shop, fresh and frozen meat, farm-prepared pots of stock, meat pies or their own honey and jams. Alongside there’s a well presented range of items from small artisan producers.
■ Bellfield Organics Box Scheme Jamesfield Farm, Abernethy, By Newburgh, Fife 01738 850589 www.bellfieldorganics.com Web/mail order.
An operation right beside Jamesfield Farm and therefore located just over the Fife boundary, Bellfield operates an organic box scheme throughout Fife (as well as further afield), delivering vegetables from their own fields as well as organic fruit, bread, eggs and milk. Their stalls can also been found at farmers’ markets in Fife and central belt locations including Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling.
■ Blacketyside Farm Shop
Farm Shop Woodland Farm, Girvan, Ayrshire
Preserves/Honey, Farm Shop, Fruit & Veg Blacketyside Farm, Leven 01333 423034 Mon–Sun 9am–7pm during berry season; 10am–4pm at other times. Café.
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■ Woodland Farm Shop
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