Successful Potato day in spite of the weather

04 February 2017

Sheila Currie and Anne Thomas write:

Nicola and Lady Balfour in eye-to-eye contest!


The Tattie Day at North Kessock Village Hall last Saturday was another knockout. More people than ever attended.  With 72 varieties of seed potato varieties for sale – including ‘Nicola’ and ‘Lady Balfour’ – there was lots of choice for planters to ‘eye’ up their favourite spuds – earlies, mains, salads, even blacks and purples!

A huge turnout from across the Black Isle, Easter Ross, Inverness – even from as far away as Nairn and Ullapool – saw keen buying-up of rare, local, heritage and extremely tasty spud varieties for folk to grow at home or in allotments. 

Organised by Transition Black Isle to promote local food and stronger communities, this annual event just keeps growing. TBI has been working very hard to raise awareness of how far some food on our plates travels. What better way to cut our carbon emissions than a leisurely stroll down the garden for some lovely fresh potatoes and other vegetables? A new thing this year is that TBI will be following up with some of the tattie-buyers to see how they get on and share their potato stories later in the year.

And if you missed it, don’t forget that the Community Markets in Cromarty (Sat 11 March), Culbokie (Sat 18 March) and North Kessock will still have some left to sell.
There are also further potato days next Saturday at Drumnadrochit and Forres using some of the potatoes left over from this one.

For more info, contact Julie Gibson on 07507 681045 or go to TBI tattie day 2017