Scottish Farm Shops  Unique to Scotland is the eclectic mix of farms shops, each with marvelous locally produced goodies. From trout lochs to vegetables, free-range eggs to rare pig breeds, there is high quality produce available throughout Scotland - it's just knowing where to find it. This particular section highlights those businesses that retail on their farms. Many regularly attend farmers' markets, but why wait for a Saturday when many are open all year round?

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Enquiries		Zero Waste Scotland				Comments
		Ground Floor, Moray House, Forthside Way Stirling,  FK8 1QZ Tel: 01786 433 930				Zero Waste Scotland is working with businesses, local authorities and households across Scotland to reduce the quantity of food that is wasted each year. The Scottish hospitality sector alone is estimated to dispose of 53,500 tonnes of food annually, and households could save £35 a month by reducing food waste. Please visit the website with a click or drop a line to see how they can help you and your business reduce food waste and save money. Please note new address.

Enquiries		Connage Highland Dairy				Comments
		Milton of Connage Ardersier Inverness,  IV2 7QU Tel: 01667 462000				Now (Apr 2013) named one of top ten cheeses in Britain and with a superb cheese room and farm shop too. There are interesting events throughout the season so check their website here for details.........also as seen on Hairy Bikers Programme! Family of organic dairy farmers in the Scottish Highlands by Inverness making superb award winning vegetarian cheeses. A wonderful range for your cheeseboard and I also use them in many of my recipes. Their cows are mainly Friesian Jersey cross and Norwegian Reds and graze on lucious clover pastures. Their cheeses are sent across the world and have won international awards. If you are reading this in London they are now also available in Harrods Food Hall. To discover their delicious range and many awards please click on picture for their website. GOLD for Clava and BRONZE for Crowdie at the World Cheese Awards 2007 GOLD ** for Crowdie Great Taste Awards 2007 SILVER for Connage Dunlop at the Royal Highland Show 2007 BRONZE for Cromal Nantwich International Cheese Show 2007 Shortlisted 2007 Scottish Food and Drink Excellence Awards Runners-up in NFU Innovation awards 2007 WINNERS in New Business and New Product category with the Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Forum 2006

Enquiries		Ardardan Farm Shop				Comments
		Cardross Helensburgh,  G825HD Tel: 01389 849188				Fantastic range of local produce including bakery, meats, fruit and vegetables in this beautifully refurbished farm shop. They sell their own delicious highland beef and lamb and also support other award-winning producers in their chill counter. There is also an amazing cheese counter complete with olive bar. With such a great range of fine produce it is easy to create a gift hamper with the pretty baskets on sale or buy one ready made for someone special. Check out their café entry too. With café, farm shop, woodland walk and walled garden this exceptional family run estate is a joy to visit.

Enquiries		Ardross Farm				Comments
		Elie Leven,  KY9 1EU Tel: 01333 330415				Traditional East Neuk beef, reared and bred on this family farm. Its slow maturing ensures well-marbled succulent results. Beautiful extended Farm Shop on site with speciality local produce, their own beef and many lovely items for home or gifts. They now also have their own beef steak pies and other homemade ready to eat goodies alongside the mouth-watering steaks! ......Great supporters of Slow Food Movement and winner of many awards.

Enquiries		Ballencrieff Rare Pedigree Pigs				Comments
		Ballencrieff Gardens Longniddry,  EH32 0PJ Tel: 01875 870551				Award Winning Ballencrieff. The good old-fashioned taste of Ballencrieff Rare Pedigree Pigs has at last been recognised and has received not one, not two but three awards for Great Taste. Peter and Elma McLaren, rear old fashioned pigs in the old fashioned way – outdoors, fed on natural feed with no growth promoters, no antibiotics and no GM produce – the result, well fed, happy pigs which produce the tastiest products. A taste, which has been recognised by The Guild of Fine Food Retailers. Regular customers of Ballencrieff have known the exquisite taste of their range of products and the queues at their monthly stalls at Haddington (last Saturday of the month) and Edinburgh (first, second and third Saturdays of the month) Farmers’ Markets are testament to this. New top awards from the Great Taste Awards yet again this year. Well done & well deserved.

Enquiries		Belhaven Smokehouse Ltd				Comments
		Beltonford Dunbar,  EH42 1ST Tel: 01368 863244				Belhaven Smokehouse is by Dunbar where for over 30years David Pate has been smoking trout and salmon. He also smokes cheeses, has local speciality produce and makes terrific pates. He won 2011 Great Taste Awards for his Roasted Smoked Salmon and Lemon and Pepper varieties and East Lothian Award for Best Local Produce. We should all consume at least one portion of oily fish each week - this is a very enjoyable way to meet that dietary target!

Enquiries		Cairnton Aberdeen Angus Beef				Comments
		Deeside Activity Park, Dess Aboyne,  AB34 5BD Tel: 01339 883536				Home of Aberdeen Angus. Renowned for his prize beef there is also an excellent farm shop & café at the activity centre.

Enquiries		Carmichael Venison				Comments
		Carmichael Estate Lanark,  ML12 6PG Tel: 01899 308336				Winner of Scotland Food and Drink Excellence Awards 2009 for Product Innovation of the Year with their Venison Rashers, offering a healthy, tasty alternative to bacon that also utilizes economic cuts in an innovative way. Clan Carmichael's estate venison is delicious. Look out for it at many farmers' markets. Also lovely cottages to rent - click on their website for further details.

Enquiries		Craigadam Country Larder				Comments
		Craigadam Estate Castle Douglas,  DG7 3HH Tel: 01556 650233				Finest quality game and lamb from this beautiful sporting estate and organic sheep farm. Their beautiful guesthouse is also a great place to stay.

Enquiries		Craigie's Farm Deli & Cafe				Comments
		West Craigie Farm South Queensferry,  EH30 9TR Tel: 0131 319 1048				Craigie's Farm Deli and Cafe is a very splendid place. The Sinclair's original fruit farm diversified into fruit, vegetables and wonderful cafe. Still famous for its range of Jam Kitchen preserves and seasonal pick your own berries but now a year round venue to visit. Its custom-made cafe and shop on the farm is light and airy with stunning views over the Forth and beyond. The Sinclairs have developed their berry farm into a major food destination. Still growing berries for consumers, chefs and their own jams and preserves, they now have a great range of local suppliers represented in their shop, including the Puddledub Butchery section. Their cafe is open all day for lattes and cakes, tiffin and teas, or something more substantial from their daily range of home cooked dishes using the best local and seasonal produce - an award-winning combination from a great team.

Enquiries		Cream O Galloway				Comments
		Rainton, GATEHOUSE OF FLEET Nr CASTLE DOUGLAS South of Scotland Members - Dumfries & Galloway,  DG7 2DR Tel: 01557 814 040				Cream O Galloway is so much more than ice cream - although that is award-wininng too! Their green credentials are superb, their visitor centre perfect for families and in addition to enjoying their delightfully creamy ice cream in a great range of flavours you can also enjoy a burger in their cafe - home made from their own organic slow growing beef cattle - so nothing but the best here! Their dairy methods are highly ethical and their sustainability record has won them several awards. Their latest addition to the range is their chocolate chip honeycomb ice cream. A very fine organic farm that has been in the same family for generations.

Enquiries		Cream O' Galloway Dairy				Comments
		Rainton Gatehouse of Fleet Castle Douglas,  DG7 2DR Tel: 01557 814040				Beautiful ice creams in a wonderful palette of flavours. This working organic farm also has fine beef and a lovely informal eatery for excellent locally produced food and fine views. This farm has won many awards for its sustainability and green credentials. Check out their colourful website for all sorts of super and imaginative family activities.

Enquiries		Gloagburn Farm Shop				Comments
		Tibbermore Perth,  PH1 1QL Tel: 01738 840864				The Niven family at Gloagburn have a lovely farm shop off the Stirling road west of Perth. Renowned for their excellent free range eggs from their 2000 hens, they also sell local vegetables, some home grown, and meats from local producers. They have an imaginative gift shop and a lovely cafe. See entry under places to eat near Perth.

Enquiries		Gosford Farm Shop				Comments
		Gosford Estate Longniddry,  EH32 0PX Tel: 01875 871234				Wild boar naturally reared in family groups in this wooded East Lothian estate. Now complete with a new butchery, Farm Shop and Café supplying wild boar, heather lamb, beef, eggs and organic vegetables, all from the Gosford Estate. This is a super place to shop and stop on the way down to Gullane. Lovely range of local produce and I've bought logs for the fire here too - very handy! A regular at Haddington farmers' market.

Enquiries		Loch Arthur Creamery Shop				Comments
		Camphill Village Trust Beeswing Dumfries,  DG2 8JQ Tel: 01387 760296				Fine selection of handmade organic cheese made on site but also wide variety of local produce available in the lovely shop - breads, vegetables, gorceries and even local pottery. See CheeseTrail and Farm Shops entries. Winner of the BBC Radio 4 Food & Farming Awards Best Producer 2011. Well Deserved and Many Congratulations!

Enquiries		Rothiemurchus Farm Shop & Deli				Comments
		Rothiemurchus Centre by Aviemore Inverness-shire,  PH22 1QH Tel: 01479 812345				Rothiemurchus is a superb family run Highland Estate set at the heart of the stunning Cairngorms National Park. Passionate about delicious food, Rothiemurchus not only produces its very own succulent Highland Beef, Velvety Forest Venison and fresh Rainbow Trout all home reared on the estate, it has a plethora of other delicacies and tempting treats. They also have a superb stock of cheeses and whilst you are there, tarry awhile and walk around Loch An Eilein - pure magic and actually voted Britain's Best Picnic Spot! Rothie (as they are fondly known) also offer more than 30 different outdoor activities for everyone to enjoy.

Enquiries		St Andrews Farmhouse Cheese Co				Comments
		Falside Farm Pittenweem,  KY10 2RT Tel: 01333 312580				Look out for Jane at this year's Gardening Scotland 2013 at Scottish Food Guide Pavilion............Visit Fife's only farmhouse cheesemakers. The glass wall allows you to watch the action and Jane's cheeses are a delicious asset to this lovely region. Buy some excellent hand crafted award-winning cheeses and tarry a while at their beautiful coffee shop with home baking par excellence including amazing meringues! The views from the cafe are over the open countryside making it a delightful place to visit. There is also a great range of gifts supporting local crafts.

Enquiries		Whitmuir The Organic Place				Comments
		Whitmuir Lamancha West Linton,  EH46 7BB Tel: 01968 661908				Whitmuir is an organic working farm growing seasonal produce and rearing Tamworth pigs, Shorthorn cattle and lamb. They have also planted an "edible and boozy hedge" - sounds like years of interesting tasting ahead! Wonderful organic food hall, restaurant and art gallery now open. Whitmuir has also devised their Carbon Offset farm scheme and support Leadburn Community Woodland. Although listed under their meats they have a fantastic range of fruit, veg and deli produce too, all as low food miles as possible. See cafe entry too.

Enquiries		Gloagburn Farm & Coffee Shop				Comments
		Tibbermore Nr PERTH Perthshire Members,  PH1 1QL Tel: 01738 840864				Support your local farmer by visiting Gloagburn and having a great day out. With fresh farm eggs, home baking, a great range of farm vegetables and chutneys there is a great range to buy. Complete with lovely cafe it's a great place to visit.

Enquiries		Wishingwell Farmhouse Coffee & Gift Shop				Comments
		Gartness DRYMEN Nr Loch Lomond Argyll, Isles, Lomond, Stirling & Trossachs Members,  G63 0NJ Tel: 01360 551038				An excellent enterprise en route to Loch Lomond, with innovative and tasty soups, sandwiches and salads, all prepared with the finest local ingredients on the family farm. A lovely friendly place with a great atmosphere. Morven and her sister are so enthusiastic and I always enjoy popping in to see them. She also does a highly entertaining and popular presentation at the Royal Highand Show Food & Drink Cookery Theatre supporting local produce. In addition to the meat from their farm Morven has also sourced some lovely and unusual arty gifts for her shop so it makes a lovely trip out of town to shop, tarry and eat. Particularly handy for Glasgow and Stirling and on the West HIghland Way. Open daytimes Tuesday - Saturday.