History

It all started over twenty years ago with the selling of spare vegetables, bedding plants and fruit along with a small selection of herbs and we've never looked back! The business has been nurtured over time and initially the main output was vegetables, soft fruit, salads and cut herbs which we delivered in the locality. Utilising a small poly tunnel and green house. We extended the range of plants available to sell and the success of this led to the opening of the Schoolroom in 1990.

With the opening of a shop selling herb related products and a small cafe serving teas and home baking we attained Scottish Tourist Boardrecognition and created a sound base for what we have now. With the ever expanding range of varieties and the rapidly increasing demand we erected two far larger propagation tunnels allowing us to dramatically increase the quantity of plants for sale. For a while we sold plants wholesale to nurseries and garden centres throughout the North of Scotland.

The new tunnels also provided space for growing crops of herbs which we cut, dried and added to our own brand of muesli. Spoff was born. Our unique muesli, which developed from a version we had made for personal consumption for years, was the new enterprise to spring from Brin and with development over time it finally split off in 2000 to form Spoff (Scotland) Ltd. and moved to a factory Ross-shire. Now we are selling all over the UK and as far afield as Belgium, USA and Portugal.

The latest project saw the opening of the licensed Fine Food Shop in June 2004 selling speciality foods and local produce as well as beers, wines and whisky and of course our now famous muesli!