Loganberry

[Pentridge]

An vastly underrated and underused fruit tbf.

[Markovitch]

Tayberry is a far finer berry and Scottish to boot

[521buc]

Am in the caravan in Arbroath till Wednesday morning and this place is the berry capital of the UK.. For sure it's massive around here.

[jiltedjohn]

Am in the caravan in Arbroath till Wednesday morning and this place is the berry capital of the UK.. For sure it's massive around here.

Aye an all those foreign pickers have done the Glesgay punters oot o' extra beer tokens.

[521buc]

Am in the caravan in Arbroath till Wednesday morning and this place is the berry capital of the UK.. For sure it's massive around here.

Aye an all those foreign pickers have done the Glesgay punters oot o' extra beer tokens. [/quote]


Nah mate I've spoke to the guy who runs the place.. He said that he had to get workers from Romainia and the like as he was struggling to get the workers from the surrounding area to do the work.. Remember the market here is huge and you need the workforce to get them picked within a certain time..

Scotland produces nearly 70% of the UK berry market and most of it from around this area..loads of work around here if you want it.

[jiltedjohn]

The Red Lion caravan park used to be packed with Glaswegians who would pick berries during the summer holidays, now the berries are grown under plastic on tables, nae sare back at the strawsers noo a days.
Not sure if the berries can grow all year round these days Eastern europeans have been coming here for years to pick berries but now they stay here all year round.

[Markovitch]

Students used to come across from Czech, Slovakia and these places on the pretext of learning English. 'They don't even say yes and no' as one put it to me.
Edited to ask how is the farming doing up there? My uncle used to manage a farm by Edzell but he quit some 30 years ago now, farmers up in Aberdeenshire were abandoning the land at that time

[521buc]

Markovitch ,
I'm not too sure how things are we the farming up this way ..but will say they don't SEEM to be doing not that badly at the minute..

[jiltedjohn]

I know a couple of farm lads, they rent out their fields, have made a few bob selling land for housing, none of them are poor. I remember they grew grass and wild flowers for a while because of big EC grants, big money to turn good arable land into scrubland.

Programme on the telly a few months ago about coffee bean growing in Asia, instead of farmers growing crops to feed the locals, they were growing coffee for the west as they made more profit out of it, stuff the locals they can starve, maybe it's something the fair trade brigade should look at.

[jiltedjohn]

Have you tried any of the local fare Buc?