Suppliers Scotland
The suppliers listed here are based in Scotland, but many supply across the UK (see each entry offering Mail Order).
See our buying guide for advice on what to look for when buying mutton.
Hebridean wethers, Isle of Lewis
Organic producers are identified thus:
Annan Water
Available by: Mail Order & from Farm, plus Farmers Markets at Glasgow Mansfield Park, Edinburgh Castle Terrace, Moffat, Dumfries and Kirkcudbright
Contact: Telephone 07708 101336 email here
Facebook: @annanwater
Meikleholmside Farm, Annan Water, Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway, DG10 9LS
Contact Person: Sarah Burchell
About us: Meikleholmside Farm lies on the slopes of the Annan Water valley near Moffat, . looking onto Hartfell - the highest hill in Dumfriesshire. All our sheep are born and bred on our farm, and graze on permanent pastures on open hill land and upland meadows. Our sheep mature at their own pace and live as stress-free life as possible. We use a small local abattoir which is only minutes from the farm minimising stress. The result is a sweet and flavoursome meat - always tender. Our customers often comment that they can taste the herbs and hill grasses in it! Everything we produce is sold directly to the public or to local chefs
Awards: 3* Great Taste Awards 2014 for our hogget Leg Roast and 2* for our rack of hogget Mutton range: Fresh or frozen wide range of cuts of hogget and mutton, including mince, diced, chops, racks, cannons and roasting joints, hogget merguez sausages and hogget and mint burgers. We also sell our extremely popular Traditional Mutton Pies-Scotch Pies.
Breed: Lleyn Ewes or Wethers: both Age: 3-7years Hanging period: 7-10 days
Season available: Year round
Ardoch Hebridean Sheep
Available by: Mail Order & from Farm or Can deliver locally / Can collect from farm if local
Contact: Telephone email here
Facebook: ArdochHebrideanSheep; Instagram: Ardochhebrideansheep; Twitter : @Ardochhebridea1; Ardoch House, Claysyke Farm, Fossoway Kinross, Kinross-shire KY130UP
Contact People: Jack and Morna Cuthbert
About us: We specifically produce slow grown wether mutton from Hebridean Sheep. They are used on conservation grazing / grass reared in the Kinross and Fife areas. We also supply Hebridean Hogget and cross Lamb. We supply both to individuals or commercial premises.
Product range: Fresh cuts butchered to buyers specifications (can advise)
Breed: Hebridean sheep for Mutton& Hogget and Hebridean x Southdown lamb
Ewes or Wethers: wethers Age: 2-5 years Hanging period: 7-14 days
Season available: Year round Cuts or Boxes: Whole or half boxes or can also supply unbutchered carcasses
Ardross Farm Shop
Available by: Mail order or Ardross farm Shop
Contact: Telephone 01333 331400 email here Facebook:@ardrossfarmshop
Ardross Farm, Elie, Leven. Fife, KY9 1EU
Contact person : Claire Pollock
About us: We are a mixed farm, producing beef, lamb and mutton which we sell locally and nationally from our farmshop
Main Products: We have both fresh and frozen and any cuts your require including sausages and burgers.
Certification: Pasture for Life
Breed: Easy Care
Ewes or Wethers: Ewes Age: under 4 years
Hanging period: 7 days
Season available: all year round
Cuts or Boxes: both
Blackface Meat Company
Available by: Mail Order & Collection by appointment
Mutton Awards: Best Seasonal Product in Britain - Taste of Britain 2005
Contact: Telephone 01387 730326 email here
Facebook blackface.meatcompany
Unit 2, Lochside Industrial estate, Irongray Road, Dumfries DG2 0JE
About us: Heather-bred Scottish Blackface mutton and other meats from the wilds of Scotland. Mutton featured on the TV programme The Hairy Bikers.
Breed: Scottish Blackface
Ewes or Wethers: both Age: 2-5 years
Hanging period: 7-14 days
Season available: all year-round
Cuts or Boxes: both
Duncan Family Farms
Available by: Collection from farm
Contact: Telephone 07749 931144 email here
Facebook Duncan-Family-Farms
Lands of Drumhead, Balfron Station, Balfron, Glasgow G63 0NH Contact Person: Shona Duncam
About us: We sell Mutton as well as lamb & hogget direct from the farm and via online Farmers Markets Neighbourfood & The Great British Food Hub. All of our sheep are home bred and naturally reared on permanent grass at our own farms and are QMS Quality Assured..
Mutton products: Fresh & frozen cuts
Breed: Blackface, Scotch Mule & Texel Cross
Ewes or Wethers: both Age: 2-4 years
Hanging period: 7 days
Season available: all year-round
Cuts or Boxes: both
Elchies Estates
Available by: Mail Order, Farm Shop (also selling meats, yarns, pelts, skins) and Macbeths Butchers, Forres
Mutton Awards: 3* Great Taste Award 2019
Contact: 01340 810844
Campbell Cairns Farm, Craigellachie, Aberlour, Moray AB38 9SL
Facebook: ElchiesEstates Email here
About us: We rear Ryeland sheep to supply hogget & award winning mutton alongside our award winning boer goat meat. Based in the heart of Speyside, we welcome visitors to the farm where you can visit the farm shop or contact us to book a tour around the farm & meet the animals. Our mutton is from animals aged 36-50 months where their last few years are spent grass fed here or at grazing near the coast.
Main mutton products: Fresh and Frozen cuts, mutton sausages, mutton & goat haggis
Breed: Ryeland and Ryeland cross
Ewes or Wethers: wethers Age: 3-4 years
Hanging period: 21 days
Season available: year around but sometimes there is a waiting list!
Hebridean Mutton
Available by: Mail Order
Contact: Telephone 01851 621722/07876 504463
email here Facebook: @hebrideanmutton
10 Tolsta Chaolais, Isle of Lewis, HS2 9DW
Contact person: Sandy Granville
About us: Hebridean Mutton is an informal co-operative of Outer Hebridean crofters. Our well adapted Hebridean Blackface wethers graze on the hills and the small islands off the shores of Lewis and Harris. They mature at their own pace never having eaten anything but their mothers' milk and the herbs and heathers on which they graze.
Apart from an annual shearing they are allowed an ubothered natural life until we gather them at the end of the summer of their third year.
They take a short journey to be slaughtered at our small, top quality local abattoir.
Every September, after hanging, cutting and vacuum packing we deliver chilled throughout mainland UK.
Breed: Hebridean Blackface
Ewes or Wethers: wethers Age: 2.5 years +
Hanging period: 7 days
Season available: September into October
Cuts or Boxes: box
Hugh Grierson Organic
Organic
Available by: Mail Order & Farm or Shop
Mutton Acclamations: Mutton described as “exceptional” by AA Gill (2012)
Contact: Telephone 01738 730201 Email here
Tibbermore, Perth PH1 1QN
Contact people: Hugh and Sascha Grierson
About us: Seasonal Scottish mutton farm-reared, together with beef, lamb, chicken and rare breed pork. Butchery done on site, and deliver nationwide to households, shops and restaurants.
Breed: Easycare x Texel
Ewes or Wethers: ewes Age: 5 years +
Hanging period: 7 days
Season available: July to November
Cuts or Boxes: both
Other Outlets: Edinburgh Farmers’ market
J.K. Mainland
Available by: Farm Shop & Mail Order
Contact: Telephone 07832 355413 email here
Facebook: @JKMainlandfarm
177 Commercial St, Lerwick, Shetland ZE1 0HX
Contact person: Ronnie Obern
About us: Shetland’s last traditional butcher, selling quality local produce from their own farm and other local farmers to supply Shetland beef, lamb, mutton and pork and a 130-year-old haggis recipe. Speciality is traditional Shetland Reestit mutton.
Breeds: Shetland & Shetland cross Texel
Ewes or Wethers: ewes Age: 2 years +
Hanging Period: 14-21 days
Season available: year-round Cuts or box: either
Louise’s Farm Kitchen
Available by: Mail order or we hold a monthly pop up farm shop or collection by appointment.
Contact: 07901 562655 email here
Facebook: @louisesfarmkitchen Milton of Auchinhove, Lumphanan, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, AB31 4QR
Contact person: Louise Urquhart
About us: Bringing naturally good food from our farm gate to your dinner plate.
Main Products: Gigot Chops, diced, shanks, mince, loin chops and merguez sausages
Breed: Texels and texel crossed
Ewes or Wethers: Ewes Age: 4 years
Hanging period: 7-14 days
Season available: all year round where possible
Cuts or Boxes: both
Macbeth’s
Available by: Mail Order & from Butchers Shop
Mutton Awards: Noisettes – Gold Star in Great Taste Awards
Contact: Telephone 01309 672254 email here
11 Tolbooth Street, Forres, Moray IV36 1PH
Contact person: Jock Gibson
About us: On-line butcher supplying mutton and a range of other meats from its own farm.
Breed: Suffolk x Cheviot; Rare breeds inc Hebridean
Ewes or Wethers: both Age: 2-5 years
Hanging period: 7 days
Season available: September to December
Cuts or Boxes: cuts
Mackenzie's Farm Shop & Cafe
Available by: Mail Order & Farm Shop
Contact: Telephone 01950 477790 email here
Facebook: mackenziesfarmshopandcafe
Cunningsburgh, Shetland ZE2 9HA
Contact person: Hazel Mackenzie
About us: A Farm Shop & Cafe serving and selling our own mutton, beef, lamb, eggs, vegetables, fruit and lots more! We supply natural local produce with a near zero carbon footprint from our croft that has been in our family for 100's of years! Winner of many awards including The Prince's Trust Award for Resilience in Farming - Scotland 2019
Breed: Shetland
Ewes or Wethers: both Age: 6-7 years
Hanging period: 3-4 days
Season available: We can supply year round but mostly from September to February
Cuts or Boxes: cuts
Orkney Boreray
Available by: Mail Order & Macbeth's Butchers (see above)
Contact: Telephone 01856 761331 email here
Facebook: Orkney-Boreray
burnside, Settisgarth, Finstown, Orkney KW17 2PA
Contact person: Jock Gibson of Macbeth's Butchers (see above)
About us: Boreray mutton from the Orkney Boreray flocks of sheep. Orkney Boreray is the term used to refer to the Boreray sheep in Orkney that are the unique ‘lost flock’ of the UK's rarest breed of sheep. The sheep graze permanent pastures with a vast range of plants, bogs and moorland & enjoy browsing on trees and bushes. They are managed to reflect their primitive background and allowed to lamb outside. Full information about the sheep and their diet on www.orkneyboreray.com. Voted joint favourite in the 2017 Scottish Breeds Mutton Tasting in Edinburgh http://www.edinburghfoodstudio.com/blog/2018/10/1/mutton
Breed: Orkney Boreray
Ewes or Wethers: both Age: 2-8 years
Hanging period: Around two weeks as required for different ages and sizes of carcass
Season available: Very limited quantities. Contact Macbeth's to find out when it will be available.
Cuts or Boxes: cuts
Peelham Farm Produce
Organic
Available by: Mail Order & Farm Shop
Contact: Telephone 01890 781328 email here
Peelham Farm, Foulden, Berwick upon Tweed, Berwickshire TD15 1UG
Contact people: Denise and Chris Walton
About us: Organically-reared slowly-grown mutton and other meats. Mutton specialities include dry-cured mutton ham (smoked & unsmoked), cooked sliced mutton ham (smoked or unsmoked) mutton ham and caper pie, and air-dried juniper mutton prosciutto.
Breed: Lleyn and Lleyn x Texel
Ewes or Wethers: ewes Age: 3-5 years
Hanging period: 14 days
Season available: October to May
Cuts or Boxes: both
Other Outlets: in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Northumberland
The Hirsel
Delivery: Farm shop + Mail order only in September with advanced booking.
Other outlets: We occasionally supply local retail outlets, and regularly as part of the menu of the Crannag Take-out in Bonar Bridge.
Contact: Telephone 07985 661682 email here
Kincardine Hill, Ardgay, Highland IV24 3DJ
Facebook Address: https://www.facebook.com/TheHirsel
Contact people: Donna Gillies
About us: The Hirsel is a nature-friendly farm in the Scottish Highlands, and our Hebridean sheep are grazed on grass, native brush, and tree fodder, resulting in a lean, healthy, and flavourful mutton for your table. Selling locally and direct from the farm by appointment.
Breed: Hebridean
Ewes or Wethers: Both Age at Slaughter: 2+ years
Hanging period: 7 days
Season available: We have fresh in the autumn (generally September) and frozen year-round.
Cuts or Boxes: fresh and frozen cuts, fresh boxes
Windshiel
Organic
Available by: Mail Order & Farm
Contact: 01361 883863 Email here
Facebook: @windshielfarm
Duns, Berwickshire TD11 3TU
Contact people: Sharon or Joe Baker
About us: Home-grown organic mutton, lamb, beef and pork from the family farm in the Lammermuir Hills.
Main mutton products: fresh cuts including mince, sausages, chops and joints, neck fillets and rolled loin; also selection boxes
Breed: Lleyn
Ewes or Wethers: ewes Age: Normally 3 years + Hanging period: 7-10 days
Season available: most of the year
Other Outlets: Local shops and caterers