From Our Farm to Your Table
The farm is now open on Wednesdays and Sundays 10am-2pm for our nursery plants, and our seasonal veg boxes. We are now attending local farmers markets with our produce! See further down the page for dates.
We are working hard to prepare the farm for this new season with some exciting projects underway:
- A new Garden at Airlie Castle to scale up farm production
- A new salad tunnel to grow more of your favourite greens
- Setting up a vegetable nursery in the Keder house to support our new program: “growing for Angus”.
We are hiring!
Assistant grower:
(one or two days/week)
With the season peaking in terms of sowing, planting and outside bed preparation, we are looking for someone to help out with keeping on top of the weather and scaling up the farm production to sustain our markets and veg boxes this year.
The working days would be Tuesday/Wednesday but could be flexible to arrange the right candidate’s needs.
The ideal candidate would be reliable, hard working, motivated and with a keen interest in organic farming and sustainability.
The work needed to be done in the coming weeks would cover : Sowing, weeding, planting, preparing the beds outside and transplanting the wintercrops
Please note that this is a seasonal job up to October.
freelancer applicants welcome
Get in touch for more information or send your cv and covering letter to: [email protected]
Closing date: Sunday 9th of June.
VEG BOX DELIVERY SCHEME
Despite the beauty of the Glen, we understand that the farm is not easy to get to; so in order to make our produce more accessible to the local community, we have been running a popular veg box scheme for the last years.
Due to the expanding demand for our produce, we are delighted to finally reach the sea this year by opening a new route to Arbroath!
We are offering ultra fresh and seasonal produce, grown without pesticide on our farm or our local partners, running from March up to Christmas.
To keep delivering quality service through the season, the amount of weekly boxes are limited. We have almost reached our maximum capacity for this year already; so make sure you’ve got your name on our list to be part of our routes!
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Friday is our delivery day, using drop off points available in your area.
covering: Kirriemuir, Lintrathen, Glenisla, Forfar, Tannadice, Brechin, Arbroath
Click here to check out our services page for more infomation on our veg box delivery scheme!
Contact us for more information
Markets
With the success of our veg boxes deliveries and the ever-growing reputation of our tasty veggies, we are scaling up production at the farm this year again to offer a broader diversity of produce at our different markets around Angus and beyond!
You can find us in:
St Andrews: 1st Saturday of the month
Forfar: 2nd Saturday of the month
Cupar: 3rd Saturday of the month
Blairgowrie: Last Saturday of the month
Arbroath: Last Sunday of the month (April, May, July, August)
Click here to check out our services page for more information on our farmers market!
VEGETABLE NURSERY
New service coming up for 2024!
We are very excited to annouce that we are developing our own vegetable plant nursery alongside our usual farm production, which is supported by our ever expanding seed bank!
You will get access to the best varieties grown on the farm and enjoy them at home!
A tip is to always buy your plugs and pots in a nursery further north than your garden to ensure your seedlings are fully acclimated and resistant to your environment.
All of our plants are started from seed in our greenhouse and dispatched once ready to go in the ground.
Get in touch to hear more about our services or check out our services page for more information!
We love to re-use and recycle. Consider donating your old pots and trays!
Volunteer Wednesday
We don’t just provide amazing quality produce for the community; every Wednesday we also open our doors for people to come and reconnect with their surroundings, learn how to grown their food and gain access to knowledge and sustainability.
Being outdoors doing manual activities and socialising in a safe and beautiful environment is a great way to spend the day; it holds the promise of a good night sleep afterwards!
Now the new season has begun and the days getting longer, there is plenty of work to be done from harder physical activities (shifting stones, building walls, ground levelling etc…) to tasks requiring patience and precision (weeding, sowing, planting…) no experience required!
Join us on Wednesdays at Rottal, 10am-3pm
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Address
Rottal Vegetable Garden
at Rottal estate
Glen Clova
DD8 4QT
Farm Nursery and Shop Opening Times
Wednesday and Sunday from 10am-2pm throughout the season.
Contact us for more details