Welcome to the Buttervilla Community of Growers
Buttervilla Farm, Skyegrove Farm & Keveral Farm

Leaves, Vegetables & Fruits for Fine Dining

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

01503 230315 robert@buttervilla.com

Buttervilla leaves, vegetables and fruits are hand grown in Cornwall using
organic methods, without chemicals and with much love and care.

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 many heirloom varieties which are much taster but don't crop as well as the modern commercial varieties 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.

Heirloom tomatoes, not only red but yellow, pink, purple and black varieties such as Tommy Toe and Lemon Drop from Australia, Black Cherry, Riesentraube and the super tasty red Brandy Wine along with old favorites such as Gardeners Delight, which everyone raved about last season having a thin skin, concentrated fruitiness, balanced with a fine acidity. To get these special flavours tomatoes need to be organically grown, fed with lots of compost and allowed to ripen fully on the vine. It also helps to only give them fresh spring water, which has none of the chemicals associated with mains water and adds to the beautifully clean lingering flavours.

 

 

Robert Hocking who is responsible for
marketing, sales and grows a mean tomato
or two for the Buttervilla Growers has been
selected as one of twenty
BBC Countryfile Food Hero's for 2009


 

 

 

 

 

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Sean O'Neill our leaf guru has grown a range of micro leaves and baby vegetables
that have been used in three episodes of Heston Blumenthal's recent television series - Feast.


Heston building the Victorian kitchen garden, for which we grew the baby produce,
it's planted into an edible soil based on olives.

The celebs eat it up, soil and all

Fifteen - Cornwall "Student Chefs Day Out"

The student chefs from Fifteen Cornwall visit the Buttervilla Growers at Keveral, Buttervilla and Skyegrove. They learn a little about how we grow our sensational fruit and vegetables then harvest ingredients for a slap up al fresco lunch. The highlight for most is having a go at ploughing behind the Comtois draught horses that are used at Skygrove. Kevin and Brian started working this wonderful 18 acre plot in the spring of 2008 and are one of the very few growers using horses.


Above Top - Karl, Training and Development Chef tries his hand at ploughing, Above - Brian explains to the students the benefits of working the land with horses


After a morning in the fields the students have prepared a slap up al fresco lunch using a barrow full of produce collected earlier in the day

Some of the produce we are growing in 2009

Micro leaves and herbs including:
Mustard red frills
Mustard green frills
Mustard red streaks
Red Russian kale
Rocket
Golden purslane
Red amaranth
Italiko chicory
Basil
Red basil
Fennel fronds
Lemon verbena
Greek cress
Watercress
Red cabbage
Chrysanthemum greens
Calvo Nero
Calvo jaggello
Mint
Watercress
Rojka red radish
Sangri red stemmed raddish
Red perilla
Tree spinach
Rainbow chard
Ice plant
Dill
Supi
Mountain spinache
Buckhorns plantain
Salad burnet

Funky Leaves
A mix of seasonal baby salad leaves

Edible flowers
Baby courgette's en fleur
Courgette male flowers
Wild rose petals
Mallow flowers
Sweet William flowers
Marigold flowers
Elder flowers
Sorrel flowers
Radish flowers
Evening primrose flowers
Nasturtium flowers
Wild rose flowers
Borage flowers
Hollyhock flowers
Apple blossom
Rocket flowers
Blackthorn flowers

Roots
Spring onions
Wet garlic
Italian onions
Baby leeks
Potatoes
Red, yellow and stripy beetroots
Multi coloured carrots
Heirloom potatoes

Tomatoes:
Heritage red, yellow, green, pink, brown and purple tomatoes

Fruits:
Glen Ample raspberries
Polka raspberries
Gariguette strawberries
Marshmallow strawberries
Ben Conan blackcurrant
Redcurrants
Whitecurrants
Red gooseberries
Heritage eating and cooking apples
Rhubarb

Plus:
Asparagus
Globe artichokes
Broad beans
Runner beans
Blue Lake white seeded beans
Borlotti beans
Yellow french beans
Extra fine French beans
Butternut squash
Courgette's green and yellow
Curly kale
Red Russian kale
Cava Negro black kale
Purple, White and Red sprouting broccoli
Ruby/rainbow/green/Swiss/rhubarb chard
Spinach beet
Calabrese
Purple sprouting broccoli
White sprouting broccoli

Herbs:
Apple mint
Green mint
Spearmint
Moroccan mint
Red sage
Green sage
Oregano
Fennel
Lemon balm
Borage
Basil
Coriander
Chives
Tarragon
Agritti


Wild Stuff:
Parasol mushrooms
Rock samphire
Watercress
Ramsons (wild garlic)
Nettle tips
Mallow
Forest fruits

Plus a lots more experimental crops which we add to our lists each year after test growing


Fifteen Cornwall & Buttervilla

Buttervilla's group of growers have been supplying lots of produce to Fifteen since the day they opened, 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 many demonstrations at local and national foody events

Fifteen Cornwall trainees at Buttervilla planting courgettesFifteen Cornwall trainees doing a bit of weeding
Tasting Buttervilla heritage tomatoes, the chefs create a reference point for fresh organic produce Fifteen trainees making lunch with funky leaves and flowers
Buttervilla funky leaf salad lightly dressed with fine olive oil and a little seasoning
Delicious funky salad leaves & flowers with a dribble of fine olive oil
Photos by Anna Greenland

From the Times May 23rd 2009
Wedding food: how to have your perfect day on a plate
Buttervilla Growers have supplied a range of salads and flowers for the wedding of Matt Rickard and Reka Fabien. Matt is one of the key members of Absolute Taste, the London based catering company that Gordon Ramsay entrusts to deliver his menus at outdoor events from Formula One parties to David and Victoria Beckham’s pre-World Cup bash. Read the article here.

Cornwall Today magazine Oct 2008:
Features Buttervilla as their producer of the month, read the article here.

The Independent Sunday, 14 September 2008:
Cream of tomatoes: Skye Gyngell makes the most of the sweetly fragrant varieties that are coming into season & lists Buttervilla as a source for the best. read the article here

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
Read the article

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 Read the article

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

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

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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