Locavore

Name: Locavore
Address: 349 Victoria Road, Glasgow, GB
Telephone: +441413283303
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Rating: 4.7

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Local organic Grocery Stores & Veg Box Delivery. Food from our land, local growers & ethical producer
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We are a social enterprise working to build better local food systems. We grow organic produce on our market gardens, deliver veg boxes across central Scotland and have three shops in Glasgow (Govanhill, Partick & Garnethill), one in Kirkintilloch and one Edinburgh.

29/10/2026

We're looking for an experienced baker or chef to lead our small kitchen and cafe team at Locavore Govanhill.

We run what is probably Scotland's only 100% organic kitchen and cafe. Using local, organic and seasonal ingredients we want our kitchen to be a demonstration of what local and organic food can be.

We're looking for for someone driven by the same food values, with bakery or production kitchen experience, to help improve and develop the food offer for our cafe, shops and veg box deliveries.

Full details of the role can be found on our website and applications should be made by 9am on Monday the 16th of November.

27/10/2026

We've got through the double whammy of storms since the weekend much better than we had feared. Our polytunnels are still standing - but Reuben didn't sleep from worrying about them on Saturday night, like every small scale veg grower across the country. With so many growers losing this precious infrastructure we count ourselves lucky.

The most impressive thing that happened was the river Gryffe visited our field, borrowing perhaps 2 acres for the river system for a brief amount of time in the early hours of Sunday morning. This has left us with a high tide line of river debris which our growers have been starting to clean up this afternoon. We've learned a lot about the great and the good of our friends up river in Houston and Bridge of Weir... Your dogs aren't great at bringing back balls and you seem to be very partial to a certain tonic w**e. You don't turn you nose up at Mad Dog 2020 either. If you decide to clean your act up then we're here and ready to deliver you a local and organic veg box.

Otherwise we're kinda back to normal, harvesting produce in slightly wetter conditions than usual. One polytunnel is partially flooded but we've still harvested the first winter chard from there. Outside we've picked the Shetland Cabbage (a Slow Food Arc of Taste vegetable) as well as loads of sweet golden turnips, cavolo nero, and red peacock kale.

Veg box packing is underway with the first deliveries of the week out Wednesday morning, we have to keep the good veg flowing. If our friends up river fancy swapping bucky for a box of veg then get your order in via link in comments.

22/10/2026

It's been quite a week on the farm and at our Veg Box HQ. We've started the week with a super frosty Monday morning, had a mid-week mudbath making amount of rain, and are now grateful for this very pleasant autumn afternoon we find ourselves within.

It's late in the season, but it has been one of the hardest harvests of the year for the team as we work against the cold, rain and mud to harvest a huge amount of produce for your boxes and our shops. Monday was all about kale as it's one of the few things you can pick when frozen. We also had loads of leeks to pull out of the mud (some were underwater), salad turnips to bunch, about 1000 lettuce and endive to harvest as well as clearing up the last of the undersized Chinese cabbages before a harsher frost did this for us. All we have left to do is harvest another load of potatoes.

It was a tough one in the veg shed as well with multiple deliveries from other growers arriving late and more juggling than usual required to get your veg boxes out; roughly on time. IT issues in the wider world also meant one of our vans was briefly held hostage until the garage figured out how to do paperwork the old fashioned way.

With so many things that can possibly go wrong every single week, it is a small miracle that we mange to grow, pick and deliver local, organic veg almost every week of the year.

Thanks to everyone who buys our veg and gives us the support to do our bit to build a more resilient and sustainable food system in our little bit of the world. If you don't already get a veg box delivery then take a look, there is loads of options to choose from.

10/10/2026

It might be getting dark and soggy outdoors but inside our polytunnels it feels more like spring. Over the last few weeks we've been busy ripping out the last of the summer crops and replacing them with leafy greens that can handle the cooler conditions and supply our shops and veg boxes from late autumn till early spring.

In the tunnels it doesn't get as cold as it does outside. As well as holding onto a bit more heat and light it also cuts out the wind chill factor, torrential rain and waterlogged soil.. it's all round a nicer place to be in the winter.

Plants will grow on nicely in the tunnels till we reach the Persephone Period.. when light levels drop to below 10 hours a day and trigger plant growth to slow right down. At our farm this will happen on the 23rd of October and plants will then just hold on and not do too much till they get their 10 hours of daylight back on the 20th of February.

For us that means we should have a harvest of baby leaf chard ready before it gets too dark, but most of the rest of the winter tunnel crops will be early next year. So a slightly longer wait for claytonia, winter lettuce, parsley and a mix of oriental salad greens.

There's a whole story of rock star gardener Elliot Coleman coming up with the name in honour (or complaint) of the doings of Persephone, Haides and her mother Demeter, but we're more read up on growing organic vegetables in winter than we are with our Greek mythology.

09/10/2026

We made the most of the good weather on Wednesday and Thursday to harvest as many of our tatties as we could before another band of rain came in on Thursday evening. We had the lightest of frosts both mornings and the soil was just dry enough to use our harvester which pulls the potatoes out of the ground for us to collect. By the time the rain arrived we managed to pick about 2 tonnes of Cara and Axona varieties and get them safely into the store.

With next week being the traditional tattie holiday (October break) we're really hoping for some more dry weather so we can get the last of the potatoes out of the field and into storage for the months ahead... but it's not looking so likely.

The rain this autumn has been really challenging for us with the field just too wet to work since the end of August. As well as making it hard to lift potatoes it has made sowing some overwinter salads, garlic and the acres worth of seed we have for cover crops impossible. We had the same story this time last year so we're beginning to think this is more than bad weather and just climate and soil limitations that we need to learn to work around... we'll keep mulling this over through the winter.

24/09/2026

This weeks veg boxes are filed with loads of beautiful local and organic veggies from our land and other local producers. Each and every box is packed to order and filled with the the things that you choose. This box is on it's way out to one of our many long term supporters in Glasgow and includes our home grown oriental salad mix, lima beans, courgette, Shetland & Tuscan rainbow kales, oregano, lemon basil as well as perpetual spinach, carrots, potatoes, onions and beetroot broccoli from other organic producers.

Our veg boxes are the best way to support sustainable local food growing and enjoy a delicious selection of fresh and unusual seasonal vegetables. Our new(ish) veg box website lets you have more control than ever over your veg box and the chance to choose all sorts of other foods and goods for delivery, weekly, fortnightly or as a one off.

09/09/2026

Looking for a part-time role? Our Govanhill shop is looking for a new team member to join us on Saturdays. To find out more and apply see link in comments.

05/09/2026

GREEN TOMATOES

Our tomato season is going out with a bang! With the current wetter weather, we've unfortunately spotted some blight and decided to take out all tomato plants. We've got plenty of ripe tomatoes that you will soon find in our shops and in your veg boxes, and mountains of green tomatoes.

Now's the time to stock up to make green tomato chutney, fried green tomatoes, pickled green tomatoes, green tomato salsa... If you're lucky they might even go red (or yellow)

04/09/2026

UNUSUAL LOCAL VEG ALERT!

This week's surprise crop is minutina, also known as erba stella (star grass) or buck's horn plantain. It's a pretty heirloom vegetable from Italy that you can use either as a salad green, on its own or mixed with other leaves, or as a cooking green like spinach.

Being a plantain it's a hardy vegetable that can also withstand a bit of frost. We had in our large and extra large veg boxes this week, and it's available in our shops now too. It's our first time growing it, let us know how you like it!

22/08/2026

UNUSUAL LOCAL VEG ALERT!

Coming off the farm this week and next is celtuce, a kind of lettuce which is bred for its edible stem. Celtuce is also know as stem lettuce, asparagus lettuce or celery lettuce and is popular in Chinese cooking where it is called a-choi, woju or wosun.

The leaves can be pulled off the stem and eaten just like lettuce, leaving you with a thick stem which is really the main event of this vegetable. The stem can be chopped up and used in stir frys and is sometimes pickled and served as a side. We'd really encourage you to explore and try out recipes for this and let us know how you get on - this is the first time we've grown it and we've not had much time to experiment with the cooking end yet!

Celtuce is in our shops now (and for the next few weeks) and it is also featuring in some the the veg boxes.

Address

349 Victoria Road
Glasgow

Telephone

+441413283303

Website

http://www.locavore.scot/

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