Grow Wild

Grow Wild brings fresh organic produce to customers embracing a sustainable, organic and natural lifestyle via their thriving farm shop.  The regenerative agricultural practices employed on the farm use a combination of techniques – starting with the soil health all the way to distributing the end-product and do so much more along the focussed but meandering journey.

To this end, we go beyond organic with our organically certified fruit and vegetable production as an element of what we do here on the family farm of 285 acres.  Grow Wild was one of the pioneers of a handful of Scottish organic box schemes back in the 1990s and has distributed over a thousand tons or organic produce throughout Central Scotland. Our own Bonnytoun grown organic produce, together with wonderful organics from other local growers and from further afield is available to our local community on the farm. We use our electric vans – powered by nature - when tootling around on our organic business. Grow Wild has been certified by the Soil Association since 1998, and Bonnytoun Farm from 2013.

We grow green manure on the farm for soil health, do not use animal manure on our organic fields, we have used no-till methods for years, have created wading bird areas, annually plant wildflower strips and fields, have created ponds and have planted hedges for wildlife corridors to re-establish a balanced wildlife ecology on the farm. We manage our farm in a practical yet holistic way contributing to mitigating climate change by trapping atmospheric carbon dioxide into the soil through cultivation and growing using all natural technologies.

Over the last 25+ years, Grow Wild has worked closely with local organic growers and suppliers to offer a fantastic range of produce weekly to the local community.

Grow Wild is owned by Lindsay Girvan who was brought up on fantastic home-cooked real food and healthy whole foods. Good natural food, a love of great tasting ingredients, a concern for environmental issues, and a desire to shop for what she herself would want to eat led to the establishment of Grow Wild.

In 2016, Grow Wild moved to Bonnytoun Farm, to a new building that hosts the Farm Shop. There are mobile pop-up food trucks and lots more!

Lindsay's knitwear and textile studio, Lindsay Girvan Future Vintage, is a hub of creativity in an old stone building on the farm. You can visit - get in touch to arrange a visit to the showroom. In 2013, Bonnytoun Farm received its organic license from the Soil Assoociation and continued to add further land into organic conversion over the next few years. Today, Bonnytoun Farm has around 50 acres of organically certified land and seasonally can produce 80% of the veg available at Grow Wild.

Following sustainable principles, packaging is minimal and recycling encouraged. The organic fruit and veg in the shop are packed in re-usable boxes made from 100% recycled material and customers are invited to use them, take them home, or return boxes. Fresh waste is minimal, but what is generated, is picked up by a local organic grower and used for pig feed and compost.