Food & Craft Markets
Mount Stuart hosts a number of Bute Food & Craft Markets throughout the year.
eatBute Event 2010
This year's eatBute event promises to be the best yet.
Full event programme will be released in mid-June 2010.
Exhibitors
Market Stalls:
Mount Stuart Gardens
Mount Stuart Kitchen Garden is in the throes of a development programme, which will see an increase in the range and quantity of fruit, vegetable and other food products available from Mount Stuart, throughout the year.
There is an abundance of produce on offer throughout the year, from potatoes, courgettes and carrots, to freshly picked berries and free range eggs. A new addition to our gardens are our bee hives, which should soon be producing Bute Honey.
Taste of Bute, Plan Farm, Isle of Bute
Taste of Bute is your opportunity to share in this stunning location where cows and sheep roam extensively on grass meadows and species-rich hills and glens. Fresh beef and lamb is supplied directly from The Plan Farm along with speciality sausages and burgers. The Isle of Bute Smokery is an extension of the concept of delivering delicately delicious food that has been produced on the island. Smoked beef, lamb, veal and cheese are the start of a range of ready-to-eat foods being produced at The Plan Farm and marketed under the Taste of Bute banner by Brian and Janet Hill .
Drumachloy Rose Veal, Isle of Bute
Delicious, fresh trout from Loch Fad on the Isle of Bute.
Drumachloy Rose Veal is produced by Duncan Lyon at Drumachloy Farm, Isle of Bute.
Fyne Cakes, Strachur, Cowal
Fyne Cakes is a small family run business situated in Strachur on the shores of Loch Fyne. All our products are traditionally handmade using local free range eggs and the finest ingredients that we can source. We do not add any artificial colour, flavourings or preservatives to any of our products and we only use natural extracts when required.
Our products are all freshly made to order to ensure that the finest quality is always guaranteed. At present we are finalising our website and hope to be online by late autumn. For further details on our products and home delivery service please contact fynecakes@fsmail.net
Nethergate Larder, Dunlop, Ayrshire
Nethergate Larder offer a wide variety of fresh, delicious produce including Tamworth Pork and Smoked bacon, Bute-reared veal and rare breed lamb and beef.
Colin McArthur Seafood, Isle of Bute
Delicious seafood, including fish and langoustines freshly caught in the waters around Bute.
Henshelwoods Fine Foods, Isle of Bute
www.henshelwoodsfinefoods.co.uk
Pickles, chutneys, mustards and jams made on the Isle of Bute using natural ingredients; spiced and flavoured to our own unique recipes.
Tablet by Trish, Isle of Bute
Delicious Scottish tablet, handmade on the Isle of Bute
Loch Fyne Oysters, Cairndow, Argyll
From a small, roadside stall on the banks of Loch Fyne, a group of businesses have developed based on the principles of good food, sustainably sourced and simply presented by people who care. Our extensive range of products oysters, scallops, clams and cockles.
Isle of Bute Cake Company, Isle of Bute
www.isleofbutecakecompany.co.uk
Delicious fresh bread, cakes and biscuits, made on the Isle of Bute. All of our products are 100% freshly handmade by Peter, a highly skilled craft baker with over 20 years experience.
We aim to use local Scottish ingredients wherever possible.
We have exceptionally high standards for baking, packing and presenting our products which mean that you can be assured that we provide first class flavour and quality every time!
Winston Churchill Venison, Dunoon, Argyll
www.winstonchurchillvenison.com
We are a very small, family run business that takes great pride in all we do. Our venison is harvested by our own team of stalkers, from local hills and woodlands in and around the Cowal Peninsular in the county of Argyll. It is all wild and comes from nature feeding on natural grasses, heathers and herbs. All of our products have 100% traceability and we sell our venison at farmers markets across the country throughout the year. We also have a mail order service.
Isle of Bute Fold, Little Grenach Farm, Isle of Bute
Highland beef produced at Little Grenach Farm on the Isle of Bute.
MacQueen's The Butcher
Local Butcher, with premises on Bishop Street Rothesay. MacQueens offer a fine selection of products from the finest Bute beef & lamb, to their very own recipe Haggis and Scotch Pies. Packs can be made up for your requirements for BBQ's, self catering or the freezer. Delivery available UK wide.
McAlister's Milk
Local milk producers, McAlisters are suppliers to Rothesay Creamery and to the Rothesay Joint Campus. Run by Ninian and Rhona McAlister, McAlisters offer home delivery of Milk, Cream and Potatoes. Tel: 01700 50 5173.
Bumble Catering, Achnabreck Farm, Lochgilphead
Bumble produces delicious, sticky desserts for the iPod generation. Gorgeous when heated and served with ice cream, stupendous straight from the barbecue and a fabulous speedy solution to pudding at a dinner party! Bumble caters for private and corporate clients at events, weddings, conferences and parties throughout the UK.
Just Seaweed
From the Beautiful Isle Of Bute on the west coast of Scotland, we hand cut fresh edible seaweed. On the north west shore of Bute, there are clear, clean, unspoilt waters where we harvest sea kelp, sugar kelp, kombu, wakeme, channel wrack, spiral, dulse, nori, sea lettuce, purple laver, carrageen, Irish moss,lady weed, rock weed, Japanese wire weed and sea string. We also cut Bladder and serrated wrack seaweed which is used for skin care, spa detox and cellulite body wraps.All my seaweeds are available fresh cut or sun dried.
Craft Stalls:
Bute Fabrics, Isle of Bute
Bute Fabrics designs and produces contemporary upholstery fabrics. With an emphasis on colour, texture and performance, we believe we have the flair to meet the requirements of the home, workplace or business.
Beautiful Baboon Pottery, Isle of Bute
Handmade stoneware/earthenware pottery from 50p to £50 all made on the Isle of Bute.
Watermill Design, Glendaruel, Argyll
Cushions and soft furnishings, produced by Sandra Webster.
Black Cat Design, Netherlee, Glasgow
Black Cat Design are producers of Scottish soaps, jewellery and handbags.
Bobbie McCabe Designs
Handmade Personlised Gifts
Tel: 01475 529 512 E-mail: bobbiemccabe@btopenworld.com
Roger & Judith Harris
Bute residents and husband and wife team, Roger and Judith produce and sell silk flowers set in vases, small gemstone items and wooden elves.
E-mail: rogerharris1@btinternet.com
Standing Stone Crafts, Isle of Bute
Hand crafted knives, antlers and walking sticks, produced on the Isle of Bute. Standing Stone Crafts is run by husband and wife team Gordon and Sandie Stevenson.
Fresh Berry Designs, Isle of Bute
Beautiful hand crafted jewellery, made by Bute based craftswoman, Elizabeth Scott. Special commissions, weddings stationery and greetings cards are also available.
Ray Beverley - Cabinetmaker
Beautifully designed cabinets, furniture and mirrors. Special commissions available.
E-mail: bevfamily@fsmail.net