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Ayrshire Food Network

Langside Farm is proud to be a member of the Ayrshire Food Network (AFN), an informal network involving artisan food producers and fine food providers who use the best Scottish produce from Ayrshire and Arran.
Like other fine food providers, we aim to use fresh locally produced ingredients wherever possible: our very own vegetable garden will be on-stream later this year, and you can't get fresher or any more local than that.
Another local member of the network is Braidwoods Restaurant, just a few miles away.
Howard Wilkinson, Chairman of AFN says: "Ayrshire is renowned worldwide for the quality of its food. The raw materials available here are exceptional meat and game; fish and shellfish; vegetables including the famous Ayrshire 'tattie' and of course Ayrshire Bacon, Ayrshire cheeses, eggs, smoked delicacies and a whole range of sweets and you can see why we are proud of what we produce."

Special Places to Stay

Publisher Alastair Sawday says that he tries to be THE guide for those looking for warm, very human, interesting people; beautiful buildings; fine old things that, however dilapidated, carry their age and authenticity with dignity; delicious food, much of it grown at home and cooked with devotion; a touch of fun with a touch of class; quirkiness with seriousness, a light touch, an easy style; and finally comfort. He says of Langside Farm "Your hosts are intelligent, humorous and gently working at being squeaky green in their home. Members of the local Slow Food Convivium, keen sourcers of local and fairtrade produce and growers of organic veg, they guarantee you fine breakfasts and lovely Scottish suppers. Chat by the Aga [the Aga has since been replaced by an Esse wood-burning stove - Webmaster], read by the fire, make yourselves truly at home. Water comes from a private spring, its purity ensured by filtration, and a biomass boiler keeps you cosy; it's fed on forest thinnings from the Blairquhan Estate. What started as two miners' cottages dating from 1745 has become an extended farmhouse with a well-proportioned elegance. Pale walls display contemporary artwork (some of it Elise's) and the sitting room is yours to share - deep red sofas, pale striped walls, shutters to keep out the wind, lamps to draw you in. Pretty bedrooms have long views and a period feel; one is furnished charmingly with a much-loved heirloom, an Edwardian suite; another has a sumptuous four-poster. In 2008 they started an apiary, in part a response to global concerns over 'colony collapse'... so far, the hive is thriving. "