FROM OUR FAMILY,
TO YOURS
FROM OUR FAMILY,
TO YOURS
This Angus farm overlooking Lunan Bay has been home to the Stirling family for four generations, and we have farmed here for over 30 years, bringing up our four children and building the business.
In the early 2000s, we started Stirfresh, washing and peeling fresh vegetables for schools and hospitals to make fresh eating easy, and, in time, also supplying retailers with 'easy veg'.
Now all four children have returned to the family business, having got stuck in from an early age and helped to grow it, and we are going even further to supply tasty, honest, convenient food for busy people who want to eat well.
Our goal has always remained the same – producing fresh, quality and healthy products. Upper Dysart Larder represents not only all of this, but our family and the farm’s history too.
James, the youngest of the Stirling family, is the man behind the mash. He cooks, mashes and creates all the flavours, tweaking and tasting until he hits the perfect combination of ingredients – and gets the resounding thumbs up from the taste testers (well, someone’s got to do it!)
When he’s not cooking and mashing, James is on the potato and veg packing lines with the team and oversees the potato planting and harvesting.
Alexander is the engineer of the family, the mechanic and the mastermind that keeps the farm running as a well-oiled machine. Largely self-taught, there’s not much he can’t fix whether it’s a tractor or technology for the latest on-farm innovation. He thrives on the challenge of using his imagination to make something work.
His fiancée, who also works on the farm, and young son are often seen helping out.
Jessica is the director of operations and creative behind all things farm vending for Upper Dysart Larder, managing its inception as well as the stories and brand development. Like all the Stirling children, she spent her holidays growing up helping out on the farm.
A primary teacher by trade and a young mum, she is passionate about bringing good, easy, nutritious food to our kitchen tables and sharing farm experiences with young children that she was lucky enough to have growing up.
Hannah makes it all happen in the office, managing orders, speaking to customers and, alongside her older sister Jessica, she brings Upper Dysart Larder to life on social media as the official farm reporter/mash snapper and sharer.
Mixing family and business was going to be a tricky one in Hannah’s eyes, but, the joker of the family, where there’s hilarity, there’s Hannah and she keeps team spirits high whilst getting the job done.
Andrew is the patriarch of Upper Dysart, building up the potato and fresh vegetable business over the last 30 years with Anita. From growing fresh produce for retailers, they took it to the next level creating ‘convenient’ vegetable side dishes for them, such as quick baked potatoes and turnip mash.
They also set up Stirfresh in the late 90s, growing and preparing fresh vegetables to supply schools and hospitals. Andrew is the family tornado, ever buzzing with new ideas and there’s always a project on.
Behind every great business, there’s a great woman. In between bringing up four children, Anita and Andrew have farmed potatoes and veg at Upper Dysart since 1997, constantly developing and innovating the business.
Ever enterprising, it is Anita who has inspired most of the fantastic ideas for mash flavours. With her finger on the pulse of every corner of the business, her job title should probably be strategy and logistics manager of all operations, including grandchildren and dogs.
Production Manager
Project & Marketing Manager
Director of Operations
Mechanical Engineer
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Finance Manager
Operations Manager
Office Manager
Office Administrator
Office Administrator
General Maintenance
Potato Line Supervisor
Potato Line Supervisor
Prep Room Supervisor
Assistant Machine Operator
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SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES IN ANGUS
Upper Dysart Larder supplies baking potatoes, fresh produce and soup packs to community support organisations across our home county of Angus.
In difficult times, we're happy to support families, keep food banks stocked and make sure there's food on the table for those who need it.