Goat Rodeo Goods: Phenomenal Kitchen Provisions for Everyday Feasts

 

Goat Rodeo Goods is the new brand and product range from Fodder + Farm (a seasonal farm to table event space in the wild west of Scotland). Both are a collaboration between Lucy Pattinson (a chef who specialises in game, seasonal food and open fire cooking) and Kat Goldin (a smallholder, food writer and photographer). 

 

They make  a range of Pickles, Spice Blends and Seasonings with punchy flavours and spicy names. Everything is made in small batches, by hand, in Port of Menteith, Scotland. 

 

Goat Rodeo Goods was born out of working with local market gardens and farmers to help reduce food waste through finding innovative ways to give life to their surplus crops. 

 

“We had recently finished our commercial kitchen installation on the farm when we got a call from our local market garden asking for help with an excess of 100kg of cucumbers they had on hand,” says Lucy. “Working to create a line of pickles was the perfect combination of my skills as a chef, Kat’s knowledge of preserving, the farm’s resources, and our shared love of local food.”

 

The brand draws upon Kat and Lucy’s many years of experience working in food and agriculture. Lucy worked in business development for luxury food brands Coco Chocolate and Victor’s Drinks before becoming a private chef specialising in open fire cooking. Kat was the director of Gartur Stitch Farm for 10 years, leading a comprehensive agro-tourism and education programme online and on farm teaching a range of traditional skills for modern lives.

 

Kat Goldin says “Our focus, with our smallholding, and now with Goat Rodeo Goods has always been ‘‘regenerative farming by stealth’. Whether it was teaching thousands of people how to milk a goat here at the farm, teaching sourdough bread making or, now, making delicious pickles and spices that celebrate seasonal eating, we have always wanted to make local food engaging, fun and accessible.”

 

Goat Rodeo Goods’ core range consists of three distinctive cucumber pickles and five spice blends. The pickles lean toward Kat’s American roots. “They are less-sweet and more vinegar-forward than their supermarket counterparts. We like our pickles punchy!!” The seasonings evolved from flavours developed as part of their distinctive farm to fork long table feasts, held in a unique setting on the farm on the edge of the Trossachs. Complementing game and meat, as well as vegetables alike, the chef-crafted flavours provide exciting and instant wins to everyday eating at the dining table, drawing inspiration from the pair’s love of fire-roasted cooking, fermentation and foraging.

 

Lucy Pattinson says: “Our whole range has been developed to help make seasonal food more approachable, exciting and a little bit entertaining. Eating local food shouldn’t be just reserved for highdays and holidays.”

 

Goat Rodeo Goods launched in August and is available online www.fodderandfarm.com and at a number of selected retail stores and via Mahalo Supplies.