Welcome to Buttervilla

BUTTERVILLA FARM. POLBATHIC. ST GERMANS. TORPOINT. CORNWALL. PL11 3EY

01503 230315 robert@buttervilla.com

About Buttervilla

Buttervilla leaves, vegetables and fruits are hand grown in Cornwall using
organic methods, without chemicals and with much love and care.
Our small group of growers are all certified organic by the Soil Association.

Everything is grown on a small scale, cropped young and tender,
then picked and delivered in hours for that special freshness that sets us apart.

We grow heirloom varieties which produce a much taster crop but don't crop as well as the modern commercial types and have a shorter shelf life, but for us quality and taste come first. We hunt out long forgotten varieties and then test grow to select the tastiest. This year we will also be offering a small range of plants ready for you to grow in your own kitchen garden.

We grow a range of heritage tomatoes, not only red but
yellow, pink, purple and black varieties such as the pink Gregori Altai from
China, Black Cherry and the beautifully tasty yellow Brandy Wine along with old
favorites such as Gardeners Delight which everyone raved about last season.
Many people grow tomatoes but to get those special flavours they need to be
organically grown and fed with lots of compost. It helps to also only give them fresh spring water which has none of the chemicals associated with mains water and adds to the beautifully clean lingering flavours.



Here's a list of some of the produce we are growing for 2008

Baby salad leaves with flowers
Punnets of edible flowers
Micro leaf mix
Micro herb mix

Spring onions
Wet garlic
Italian onions
Baby leeks

Heritage red, yellow, green, pink, brown and purple tomatoes
Glen Ample raspberries
Polka raspberries
Gariguette strawberries
Ben Conan blackcurrant
Heritage eating and cooking apples
Rhubarb

Asparagus
Globe artichokes
Baby broad beans
Runner beans
Blue Lake white seeded beans
Borlotti beans
Yellow baby french beans
Extra fine French beans

Apple mint
Green mint
Spearmint
Moroccan mint
Red sage
Green sage
Oregano
Florence fennel bulbs + fronds
Lemon balm
Borage flowers and leaves
Genovese basil
Chives
Tarragon
Agritti (Monks Beard)

Multi coloured grown carrots
Red, golden and stripy beetroot
Butternut squash
Baby courgette's en fleur
Courgette's green and yellow

Curly kale
Cava Negro black kale
Purple, White and Red sprouting broccoli
Ruby/rainbow/green/Swiss/rhubarb chard
Spinach beet
Calabrese

Wild parasol mushrooms
Wild rock samphire
Wild watercress
Ramsons (wild garlic)
Nettle tips
Wild rock samphire
Wild mallow
Wild forest fruits

Fifteen - Cornwall "Chefs Day Out"

On 27th September 2008 the trainee chefs from Fifteen Cornwall spent the day at Buttervilla and Keveral farms. They learnt about how we grow our sensational fruit and veg for the restaurant, tried their hand at planting, harvested ingredients then cooked a slap up lunch. In the afternoon two of our associate growers talked about foraging for wild produce and the nutritional value of fruits vegetables and herbs. It made for an informative and tasty day out


Fifteen Cornwall & Buttervilla

Buttervilla's group of growers have been supplying lots of produce to Fifteen, our heritage tomatoes have been a real hit with the chefs and diners, we have also supplied much of the local organically grown produce on offer at the restaurant. Executive chef Neil Haydock has used our produce for demonstrations at local foody events including the Flavour Fest in Plymouth and the Port Eliot Lit Festival

Fifteen Chefs visit Buttervilla

During summer 2007 we have been visited by trainee chefs from Fifteen who spend the day at Buttervilla and Keveral planting, weeding and tasting produce straight from the soil, a great way for them to create a reference for how really fresh fruit and vegetables should taste.

Fifteen Cornwall trainees at Buttervilla planting courgettesFifteen Cornwall trainees doing a bit of weeding
The trainees planting courgette's and weeding the tomatoes

Tasting Buttervilla heritage tomatoes, the chefs create a reference point for fresh organic produce Fifteen trainees making lunch with funky leaves and flowers
Preparing their lunch

Buttervilla funky leaf salad lightly dressed with fine olive oil and a little seasoning
Delicious and healthy, salad leaves, flowers with a dribble of fine olive oil
Photos by Anna Greenland

From the Cornish Guardian September 5th 2007

Fresh from the farm to table By James Oxley

An apprentice chef at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant has become a food producer and is supplying salad and vegetables to the eatery.

Anna Greenland, 25, from Trevisker was so impressed by the bright colours and tastes of the salad leaves flowers and tomatoes grown for the restaurant that she developed a yearning to get growing in the garden herself.

After teaming up with Buttervilla Farm, near Torpoint, she now combines working at the restaurant with tending a plot of land to meet the kitchen's year-round demand for fresh vegetables.

The young chef said: "From the very first time I saw and tasted the Buttervilla ingredients I was totally bowled over at how something as simple as a salad could taste so amazing and really wanted to have a go at growing them myself. Robert Hocking, at Buttervilla offered me the fantastic opportunity to help them supply the restaurant by tending a local plot with a polytunnel, and I jumped at the chance.

"I've been growing a range of organic salad vegetables and edible flowers for eight months now and get a real buzz seeing the produce that I've planted, nurtured and harvested on the menu here at Fifteen Cornwall. Plus it's even better hearing first hand that the customers have enjoyed eating it." Fifteen Cornwall apprentice chef Tim Wilson, 18, from Truro was impressed by Anna's salad garden. He said: "It was great to see what Anna's been up to outside the restaurant. Her polytunnel was really hot and provided a welcome escape from the rain.

Downlaod Anna's Buttervilla Diary here

More from the press:

She Magazine November 2007:
The 10 Best Super B&B's
Read the article

Fifteen Cornwall Apprentices use Buttervilla produce at Labour Party Reception
Read the article

The Guardian Travel section Saturday 8th September:
Five Best ...Organic restaurants
A great accolade as we can only seat a maximum of 6.
Read the article

The Sunday Telegraph 12th August:
Where to Stay in South East Cornwall
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The Independent August 5th 2007:
Skye Gyngell uses Funky Leaves and Buttervilla tomatoes at the Lit Fest
Read the article

The Times May 07:
Funky Leaves get a mention from Neil Haydock of Fifteen Cornwall
Read the article

Cornwall Food Finder - Food Bites
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Buttervilla Farm B&B
Great accommodation, 15 beautiful acres to roam, 2 miles from the south coast offering the best in local produce

"The damson jam rocks"
Rob, London
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Email: info@buttervilla.com
Telephone: 01503 230315
Mobile: 07789 680210

Buttervilla Farm
Polbathic
St Germans
Torpoint
Cornwall
PL11 3EY



Buttervilla stand at the Cornwall Food & Drink Festival - Truro Sept 2006
Cornwall Food & Drink Festival - Truro Sept 2006

Organic local produce grown by Buttervilla Funky Leaves growers in South East Cornwall home of great food

Lips sweet enough to eat but don't let the eyebrows fool you!

BUTTERVILLA FARM. POLBATHIC. ST GERMANS. TORPOINT. CORNWALL. PL11 3EY

01503 230315 robert@buttervilla.com