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Best of 2011: Scottish food producers

Best of 2011: Scottish food producers

The brewers, smokehouses, bakers and cheesemakers on the rise

20 Jan 2012

2011 wasn’t a fun year for small business but food and drink in Scotland continued to make advances with impressive new products, new producers, new markets, growing food festivals, and an increased awareness of the value and importance of local food…

From field to fork - The meat producers of Fife, Scotland

From field to fork - The meat producers of Fife, Scotland

For those who love their meat, but like to know where it comes from

10 May 2010

For at least a decade now, Fife farmers have been finding a way to market that has avoided the high-volume supermarket route and reduced the food miles between field and fork. Typical of this movement are small-scale, family farmers such as Jim and…

Orchards of Fife provide a bounty of fruit

Orchards of Fife provide a bounty of fruit

Pear, plum and apple among fruit grown in Fife, Scotland

10 May 2010

There is a very rare pear tree in Newburgh, on the banks of the Tay estuary. Called the Lindores pear, it’s rooted in the twelfth-century world of Tironensian monks who founded Lindores Abbey just beside the town. The monks were responsible for the…

The farm shops of Fife

The farm shops of Fife

Fife boasts more farm shops than anywhere else in Scotland

10 May 2010

‘People like to see where their food is produced,’ says Duncan Stewart, manager of Falkland’s Pillars of Hercules farm. ‘Here you can see things growing in the fields and put a face to the person who’s producing the food, which means a lot more than…

Venison farming in Fife

Venison farming in Fife

The Scottish deer farm offering sustainable, humane agriculture

10 May 2010

Auchtermuchty can be hard to pronounce without a bit of practice, though it’s famous enough as the home town of accordionist Sir Jimmy Shand, popstars the Proclaimers and, to anyone tuned into inspiring Scottish food stories, John and Nichola Fletcher…

Educating the next generation of farmers

Educating the next generation of farmers

The Fife college teaching organic and free-range agriculture

10 May 2010

In the fertile surrounds of Cupar Muir, just south of Cupar, is a small, organic farm with a difference. College Farm’s main function is to train students from Fife’s Elmwood College, teaching organic and free-range animal husbandry and agriculture to…

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