Fiona,
My guess is that you are looking for organic produce and not just the longer shelf life items selling in the Clearspring site.
You and everyone could probably benefit from learning how to better search the Internet.
If you don't have a Apple Macintosh computer (
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/sherlock.html ) (
http://www.karelia.com/watson/ ), then you best learn to use Yahoo (
http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?p= ) Google (
http://www.google.com/ )
Apparently their are no Scots selling produce directly online at this time but here are so sites that may give you clues to who in either Scotland or the U.K. you can buy produce from:
(
http://www.tapin.co.uk/glasgow.htm )
(
http://www.sopa.org.uk/producers.php)
(
http://www.sopa.org.uk/links.php )
(
http://www.biosphere-organics.supanet.com/ ) (
http://www.soilassociation.org )
(
http://www.sustainweb.org/index.asp )
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http://www.fooduk.com/list.asp?cat=31&start=1 )
(
http://www.vegbox.com/index.shtml ) (
http://www.scotveg.com/ )(
http://www.ivu.org/sesv/ ) (
http://www.rhizomatics.demon.co.uk/gvn/ )
(
http://www.ecovillagefindhorn.com/tr...arthshare.html )
(
http://www.macrobiotic.co.uk/counselors.htm )
(
http://www.ashburtoncentre.co.uk/ )
(
http://www.montsebradford.com/ )
(
http://www.shiatsu.org/ )
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http://www.cantost.com/shop_info/artisan.html )
(
http://www.theorganiccentre.ie/ )
(
http://www.hdra.org.uk/ )
(
http://www.hdra.org.uk/lgl.htm#scotland )
(
http://www.osg-co-op.co.uk/ )
(
http://www.wye.ac.uk/FoodLink/index.html )
Fiona, I feel that you need to network with as many people involved in growing and/or distributing locally, in Scotland, and in the U.K. as you can.
Go to local farmers markets, get involved in vegbox schemes (called CSA(s) or Community Supported Agriculture, here in the States), visit vegetarian and gourmet restaurants and talk to the chefs there (as you may know I wash windows for a living and at least half of my customers are restaurants and a number of them are gourmet and some of them buy organic vegetables from farmers), find other organic gardeners and either buy from them or barter, contact organic farmers and buy from them or organize (or join) a food conspiracy, food buying club, or food co-op.
You don't have to build a glassed-in hothouses but you can do a trick that the Nearings (
http://www.goodlife.org/ ) did to extend their Northern Maine growing season which is to build a stone wall that is sunk at least several feet down around their garden and then the frost takes a month or two longer to get into the garden (collect a couple of truckloads of stones and create a wallbuilding event with your friends and neighbors to put it up in a day or so).
I sent a e-mail to Kathy Russell who has been macrobiotic for several years in Scotland and invited her to post here or contact you.
(
http://www.foodloversbritain.com/org...tion-1180.html )
(
http://www.ivu.org/congress/2002/why.html )
(
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/c...pe=eat&vid=165 )
(
http://www.foodfirst.co.uk/org07614.htm )
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http://fr.travel.yahoo.com/t/wc/unit...abelscafe.html )
(
http://www.grabameal.co.uk/avre130qz.htm )
(
http://www.hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk/saladtable.html )
(
http://theoracle.co.uk/lo/restaurant...estName=Kalpna )
(
http://www.ednet.co.uk/~susies/ )
(
http://www.aboutfood.co.uk/articles/...n-0013063.html )
(
http://theoracle.co.uk/lo/restaurant...estName=Legume )
(
http://travel.yahoo.com/p/travelguide/96068 )
(
http://www.bestglasgowrestaurants.co...ts/?grassroots )
(
http://www.grassrootsorganic.com/ )
(
http://www.happycow.net/europe/scotland/inverness/ )
(
http://somewherenear.com/staticindex58.htm )
(
http://somewherenear.com/static58IV.htm )
(
http://somewherenear.com/idx.cgi?pla...12&east=148419)
)
(
http://www.scotland-info.co.uk/vegetarian.htm )
(
http://www.scoot.co.uk/banns/ )
Check out the starting The Online International Macrobiotic Directory (
http://www.macrobioticdirectory.com/ )
Also, get the latest copy of the International Macrobiotic Directory 1050 40th Street, Oakland, CA 94608. (510) 601-1763, e-mail: Robert Mattson
intermac@eathlink.com , Useful names, addresses, and telephone numbers of macrobiotic people, mb restaurants, and mb food suppliers (including food stores) from around the world. The 2002 edition sold for $10.00, was 40 pages with tens of thousands of listings worldwide.
Is this enough to get you started, Fiona?
Where in Scotland are you?
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine