The black wooden Community Garden Shop at Kilchoan on Ardnamurchan.
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West Ardnamurchan Garden Community Shop

A community garden's self-service shop on the lighthouse road out of Kilchoan, selling its own vegetables by honesty box.

Welcome

The West Ardnamurchan Community Garden lies at Sonachan, about three miles out of Kilchoan on the lighthouse road, and beside it stands a small wooden shop with its sign painted on the side: Community Garden Shop, fresh veg, fruit and flowers, snacks and drinks, plants and gifts.

The garden began in 2010, part of a Scotland-wide move for communities to act on climate change. Growing food here, on a remote peninsula, cuts the miles it travels and the carbon it costs, and the garden encourages others to grow their own too. The fruit and vegetables are grown organically and sold fresh in season from the roadside shop, which is self-service: choose what you want and pay in the honesty box. There is often a chalkboard of what came out of the ground that day. The garden's produce also goes to the regular produce markets in Kilchoan. It makes a good stop on the way to or from the lighthouse.

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Before you go

A self-service honesty shop, open for produce in season; pay in the honesty box.

At Sonachan, about three miles out of Kilchoan on the lighthouse road.

Getting there
Sonachan, on the lighthouse road out of Kilchoan.
Open
Self-service; produce in season.
Pay
Honesty box.

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The Community Garden Shop at Kilchoan with the hills of Ardnamurchan behind.
Did you know

The garden began in 2010.

It was set up as part of a drive across Scotland to act on climate change: food grown here does not have to travel to get here.

A handwritten price list on the table in the Community Garden Shop at Kilchoan.
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You pay at an honesty box.

The roadside shop is self service, with an honesty box for payment. The produce also goes to the regular markets in Kilchoan.

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From our guide to Lochaber

On the lighthouse road about three miles out of Kilchoan, a small wooden shop stands beside the West Ardnamurchan Community Garden. The garden began in 2010 to grow food on the peninsula itself and cut the miles it travels. Its fruit and vegetables are grown organically and sold fresh in season, along with flowers, plants, snacks and gifts. It's all self-service, so choose what you want and pay in the honesty box. Look for the chalkboard listing what came out of the ground that day.

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