The Hub G63

The Hub G63 is a collective of like-minded people living in the G63 postcode, near Glasgow. We want it to be easier for everyone to access sustainable food, so we have set up these community projects...

The Village Hub

We run the local village shop in Drymen.

Address: 15 Main St, Drymen, Glasgow G63 0BQ
Phone: 01360 660743

Our ºZero Waste products are ethically and sustainably sourced.

Opening times	Open	Closed
Monday	9am	3pm
Tuesday	9am	3pm
Wednesday	8am	3pm
Thursday	9am	3pm
Friday	9am	3pm
Saturday	9am	5pm
Sunday	9am	1:30pm

Products

Newspapers and magazines (Drymen delivery available)
Milk (glass), local eggs
Honey
All types of flour
Vegan and gluten free products
Confectionary, crisps, healthy fizzy drinks
Grains, pulses, oats, pasta, riceº
Tins: beans, soup, dahl
Lots of herbs, spices and spice kits
Cleaning products, laundry detergent, washing up liquidº
Toothpaste and toothbrushes
Sustainable living: reusable bags, bees wax food wraps wraps, containers
Local crafts.

Services

Laundry & Dry Cleaning
NeighbourFood online market collection point on Fridays
Drop and Collect Zero Waste product filling.

ºZero Waste just means try to bring your own container and we’ll fill it up. We can sell you containers and also can provide a free brown paper bag if you forget though!

NeighbourFood G63 Balfron

NeighbourFood
G63 Balfron

Bringing local producers together on one website!

We have incredible famers, growers and makers in Perthshire and Stirlingshire BUT 97% of the food economy goes to the same ‘Big 4’ supermarkets! Why not buy from those on your doorstep instead?

Join here

person browsing the NeighbourFood website

How it works

Put your order in before Tuesday at midnight and collect your order from a collection point of your choosing.

Collection points

Thursdays
Balfron	McLintock Hall	5:30 - 6:30pm
Aberfoyle	Intrepid	6:00 - 6:30pm
Killearn	Kirk Hall	6:00 - 6:30pm
Fridays
Drymen	Village Shop	11:00am - 1:30pm

Thursdays:
Balfron, McLintock Hall, 5:30 - 6:30pm
Aberfoyle, Intrepid, 6:00 - 6:30pm
Killearn, Kirk Hall, 6:00 - 6:30pm

Fridays:
Drymen, Village Shop, 11:00am - 1:30pm

Products

Veg Boxes
Beef, Lamb, chicken
Dairy milk, eggs, local cheese, oat milk
Fresh Bread (sourdough, irish wheaten, focaccia, bloomers)
Fresh pastries and brownies
Pulses, grains, rice, pasta
Coffee
Ready meals for 1 and 2
Coffee
Preserves
Sanitary products
Sandwich wraps
Curry kits

The Grow Garden

The Grow Garden will be a community food garden for everyone in G63 and beyond.

The Grow Garden is, at its heart, a place to grow fruit and vegetables in a way that regenerates the land and helps fight climate change, but the potential is for it to become more than that.

We want it to become the centre of a growing community, a place of experiences, education and working with nature at the heart of the G63 area.

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Follow our progress on Facebook.

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The Community Garden

We all run a lovely community garden in Drymen - often the produce is given away for free at the Village Hub.

Wild G63

Connect with nature

We run foraging workshops to empower the community to find food all around them and connect with nature.

We are surrounded by amazing wild foods. Get out, connect with nature and learn to identify wild foods through the seasons at one of our foraging events.

Mum and face pained daughter at Wild Food Festival

We also co-organise Scotland’s only Wild Food Festival.

Events

About us

We didn’t feel like we had a lot of easy sustainable food options, so we got together as a community to create some!

We have 10 years to reduce the effects of climate change. Of all the human systems in the world, the food system has the largest environmental impact. Luckily, it’s also the one that we can all change by the positive choices we make every day, so we figure - it’s a good place to start!

Latest news

We have a highly skilled team of growers and producers. You’ll hear more from them individually through our BLOG.

2021-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

How to chit potatoes - a job for March

by Jane Lindsey

Chitting potatoes is the name for putting them somewhere cool and light so that the shoots begin to develop before you plane them.

In cold climates it is a way of speeding up your crop by about a month.

2021-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

Foragers - a new local farm in the making

by Jane Lindsey

Foragers have been one of our growers and producers on NeighbourFood from the start. They are located between Drymen and Balfron so they certainly tick the local box. The family farm is run by Jo and Gary McAlpine with help on hand from their 3 sons Colin, Gavin and John. The McAlpines moved to the area in 2014 with ambitions to create a new farm from scratch on what was an old meadow used for occasional horse grazing.