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EVENTS GLASGOW ■ Mansfield Park Farmers’ Market FREE Sat 27 Aug & 10 Sep, 10am–2pm. Mansfield Park, Hyndland Street.
scotland Samplings, tutored tastings, a chance to meet the producers and buy your favourite dram. Live music and food complete the experience.
■ Silverburn Farmers’ & Speciality Market FREE Sun 28 Aug, 10am–4pm. Silverburn, Barrhead Road. ■ Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market FREE Sat 3 & 17 Sep, 10am–2pm. Queen’s Park, Langside Road.
■ Pasta Master Class Thu 1 Sep, 7.30pm. £30. The Restaurant Bar & Grill, Princes Square, Buchanan Street, 225 5620. Join the head chef for a lesson in the art of hand making ravioli tortellini, spaghetti and tagliatelle. Price includes three- course meal. ■ Whisky Live Glasgow Sat 3 Sep, noon–5pm. £15–£45. Glasgow Thistle Hotel, Cambridge Street, whiskylive.com/
■ Rustic French Wine Pairing Evening Wed 14 Sep, 7pm. £45. The Butchershop Bar & Grill, 1055 Sauchiehall Street, 339 2999. Wines from the Languedoc–Roussillon region, with a five-course tasting menu by head chef Alex Thain. EDINBURGH ■ Juniper Green Farmers’ Market Sat FREE 27 Aug, 9am–1pm. Car park, Kinleith Arms, 604 Lanark Road.
It’s Scottish Food Fortnight from 3 to 18 September, with events, promotions and demos taking place all over Scotland. scottishfoodanddrinkfortnight.co.uk
■ Edinburgh Farmers’ Market FREE Saturdays, 9am–2pm. Castle Terrace, 652 5940. ■ Weekly Food Market FREE Saturdays, 10am–2pm. Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7100. Food, drink
and household items, all sourced from within 100 miles of Edinburgh. ■ Portobello Organic Market FREE Sat 3 Sep, 9.30am. Brighton Park, Brighton Place.
■ Autumn Farmers’ Market
IN CO-PROMOTION WITH REAL FOODS, EDINBURGH
FREE Sun 4 Sep, noon–4pm. Malmaison Hotel Edinburgh, 1 Tower Place Leith, 468 5000. Family-friendly event offering you the chance to buy direct from all of Malmaison’s local suppliers.
■ Cigar Dinner Thu 8 Sep, 7pm. £70. Hotel du Vin, 11 Bristo Place, 247 4900. A four- course dinner, drinks, cigars and a talk from cigar aficionado Simon Chase, held (weather permitting) in the hotel’s Cigar Bothy. OUTSIDE THE CITIES ■ East Renfrewshire Food Festival FREE Sat 27 Aug–Sun 4 Sep, dayvisitor.com. Events including a whisky tasting, cookery demos, Apple Day, and a version of Ready Steady Cook hosted by Seumas MacInnes (Café Gandolfi).
■ EatBute FREE Sat 10 & Sun 11 Sep, 11am–5pm. Mount Stuart House and Gardens, Rothesay, Isle Of Bute, 01700 503877. Seasonal offerings from the island of Bute as well as neighbouring Argyll, Arran and Ayrshire at the food and craft market, cookery demos, tours of the house and gardens and children’s activities. ■ Dundee Flower and Food Festival Fri 2 Sep, 11am–6pm; Sat 3 Sep, 10am–6pm; Sun 4 Sep, 10am–5.30pm. Weekend tickets £16–£20 (£14–£18); day tickets £8–£10 (£7–£9). Camperdown Country Park, Coupar Angus Road, Dundee, 01382 434940. A tented festival with floral displays, prize-winning garden produce, live entertainment, cookery and gardening.
Try the speciality mixed salad bags packed with interesting, healthy, organic salad leaves and
edible flowers.
Look out for seasonal Cyrenians Farm produce
– runner beans, shallots, mangetout, spinach, rocket, raspberries and strawberries, garlic,
onions, French beans, potatoes, mixed salads,
edible flowers and 28 varieties of heritage apples. Cyrenians Farm’s free range eggs are renowned
for their outstanding quality and flavour.
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principles they produce delicious, traditional varieties of fruit and vegetables with amazing
• Free recipes, health advice & online shop • Free UK delivery on orders over £10. • Student & Senior Citizen discounts.
The Cyrenians Farm charity offers young people depths of flavour. Packed with health-giving
at risk a place to stay in a family style therapeutic properties their fresh produce is literally bursting
community, whilst equipping them with the life with life!
skills needed to move on to independent living. The whole array of Edinburgh Cyrenians Farm
Staff, residents and volunteers plant, nurture produce is available in Real Foods’ two central
and harvest a huge range of traditional organic Edinburgh shops.
BURSTING WITH LIFE! Tom Phillips from Edinburgh originally worked in theatre but a chance encounter led to a job as Project Farm Worker with the local charity Edinburgh Cyrenians Farm which Real Foods has always supported.
fruit and vegetables (and edible flowers!) on just eight acres of carefully tended land where they
produce some of the highest quality organic fruit,
■ ORGANIC HEALTH & BEAUTY ■ NATURAL BABY PRODUCTS
vegetables and eggs around! With sustainability • 10% Early Bird discount available in both shops.
and biodiversity at the heart of the farm's See website for details.
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