History of the Farm
Shop
Rothiemurchus Farm Shop started in 1985 at
Rothiemurchus Fishery, selling fresh and smoked Rainbow
Trout straight from the clear sparkling water flowing from the
Cairngorms into our Fish Farm.
Johnnie and Philippa’s friends asked where they could buy
the delicious, tender venison
that they enjoyed in their home. So the Trout was joined by carefully
butchered and packed specially developed cuts of venison, developed
because Philippa disliked traditional ‘mature’ venison
that needed marinading to tenderise and disguise the well hung’odour'!
The Grants had always had a Highland ‘stot’or heifer
specially matured for them once a year. The meat was so memorable
that again their friends begged them to make it available in the
Farm Shop. So 2001 we took the big step of moving to Rothiemurchus
Centre and Charlie Haggarty the part time butcher became full-time
and Norma Hutton our chef came part-time to begin with now full
time.
Sadly Charlie died three years ago, so his ‘mentor’
Fraser Sharp – Champion Black Pudding maker of Scotland took
over, now joined by Brian Dey. The Farm Shop has moved to another
bigger room in Rothiemurchus
Centre with Anne Warren in charge, supported by Margaret Pearson
when she is not in Austria skiing and Duncan Culliford who is learning the joys of cleaning
very fresh Rainbow Trout! |