We have organised some great tasting sessions for the month of August.  It is a great chance to meet the producer and taste their product.

 

Saturday 14th August - Knopp's Beer, a local micro brewer from Edinburgh.

 

Saturday 21st August - Simple Simons Pies - Gourmet fast food.

 

Saturday 28th August - Tyrrell's Chips - Possibly the best crisps on the market?

 

We are also going to be getting very involved with Scotland's Food and Drink fortnight in September - watch out for more info on this.

 

The butchery is now being accepted as a great addition to Craigie's, great quality meat at a good price.

 

Congratulations to young Sean who has made it qualifying round for 'Young Butcher of the Year Award'.  Sean is heading down to Manchester where he will be showing his skills off.  The competition is getting filmed for BBC 3.  Good luck Sean!

 

From next week Steve is going to be stocking Balmoral Estate Venison, that has got to worth trying out!

 

Also check out the great butchery offer below.

 

 

 

Things are going well on the farm (so well my golf handicap has been cut by 3 this season :-) ).

 

The Social Enterprise veg project is really taking shape now with a lot of produce hitting our shops shelves.  Tom, Kirsty and their team are making a fab job and have great plans for next season.

 

The weather gave us some problems at the beginning of July blowing the tunnel covers off a block of tunnels.  Fortunately the block was not at the stage of harvest so we managed to get them recovered and back on track.

 

At the end of the month the combine should arrive to cut our Spring Barley and Wheat.  Although we are selling our potatoes in the shop at the moment, the potato crop will not be harvested until late September.