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A highly respected meat and game dealer with super newly refurbished butcher’s emporium in Forres, complete with large glass cabinets for his 30+ day dry-aged beef. He also has an online mail order shop with eco-friendly packaging and welcomes trade orders too. Multi-award winning, Macbeths offers a full range of sausages, burgers, haggis and black pudding alongside their range of sirloin, shoulder, minced, ribeye etc. In 1986 Jock’s parents Mike & Sue Gibson bought the established butcher’s shop as a direct outlet for their Edinvale Farm produce. Sadly missed, their dedication to high quality meat and Highland Cattle has carried on with Jock and Fiona & their family. RBST Award Winner 2022 & RBST Joint Winner Sustainable Butcher / Wholesaler of the Year 2023.
Among the many rare and heritage breeds Jock sells from both his own Pasture for Life farm and on behalf of other highly regarded Scottish producers, Macbeths is also sole supplier of the Orkney Boreray mutton. Jock is highly skilled, knowledgable and enthusiastic. His fine pedigree stock is Highland and Shorthorn, reared on farm, and game is sourced for top highland suppliers.
Jock says, “We take great care of our cattle raising them to excellent standards and are certified by the Pasture for Life Association and we are a member of the Scotch Beef Assurance scheme run by Quality Meat Scotland. We also produce all our own feed so that we can be sure that our cattle are only fed on the highest quality food. We want to produce as natural a product as possible.”
From exceptional Highland Beef to rare breed pork and game, you will find it at Macbeths. Many of these fab photos are thanks to Jock plus some from me. Their onfarm shop, The Wee Shed Shop, is closed for the time being as Fiona has opened the marvellous Old Market Refillery & MicroBakery adjacent to the butcher shop where you can buy her excellent breads that were available from the Wee Shed before. Jock is a Nuffield Scholar so his social media is s fascinating window into his experiences of meat production across the world. Macbeths is also a stockist of “Meadows: The Swedish Farmer & The Scottish Cook.”
