Summer Pruning
Summers ending and my attention has been focused on taming the fruit trees including apples, pears, plums and cherries that grow within one of our many poly tunnels. Growing fruit trees in this environment presents different challenges to those faced by growing in the traditional outdoors. It is essential that their growth is managed, as the garden had been largely [...]
Lochaber Fisheries Trust
Freshwater Pearl Mussels are an iconic Scottish species that are critically endangered. The Lochaber Fisheries Trust are working with Scottish Natural Heritage, Heritage Lottery and the Scottish Landfill Community Fund to raise the profile of the mussels amongst local communities and help to improve their reproductive success in rivers across Lochaber where their numbers have been in sharp decline. To [...]
The Good Food Guide
The Whitehouse Restaurant, Lochaline, has received a Good Food Guide Award 2016 as a regional winner. Congratulations Team Whitehouse!! http://www.thegoodfoodguide.co.uk/news/local-restaurant-of-the-year-winners-announced
Local Food Heroes
The Whitehouse Restaurant, Lochaline, has been listed as one of the most worthy eateries in an extreme remote location, featured in Country Life Magazine this month. Follow the link below to read more about this tremendous recognition. http://www.countrylife.co.uk/food-drink/extreme-eating-remote-restaurants-worth-the-journey-119913#r6drJzpRpYJHiMUT.01
From ground to plate…
Since the last garden blog things have been progressing well. Even with the strange Spring and Summer weather, with snow in April, a mini heat wave in May and then rain throughout June and July, the garden has been offering produce in plentiful supply. It has been a wonderful few months, with all the hard work starting to pay dividends [...]
Morvern Sailing Club
After a public meeting in early December 2015 it was decided that there was enough interest to reform the existing but dormant MSC & elect a new committee. In February we organised an open day fund raiser at the village hall which was well attended & resulted in a rapid rise in membership to over 50. Our initial aim was [...]
