Dunoon Goes POP

31/08/2026

📍 Add your rhubarb patch to the Dunoon rhubarb growers' Green Map.

Join our Dunoon rhubarb growing community by adding your patch to the map. It takes a few minutes, that’s all!

👉 https://greenmap.org/explore/survey/652afe9aaa7e060100ead006

We will use the information to keep in touch with you, share rhubarb growing tips and contribute to ongoing research about rhubarb growing in a changing climate here in Dunoon.

🌿 Knowing how many people are growing here in Dunoon, also feeds into our mission to make Dunoon the rhubarb capital of Scotland. The more we know, the more we can build a picture of how big the rhubarb community is.

Join the rhubarb revolution!

25/08/2026

The Mum Edit. What are your earliest memories of eating rhubarb?

Thanks to everyone from near and far for sharing your rhubarb stories, including Jenni Minto MSP . You are contributing to our heritage research into how and why we love rhubarb.

🌿 About the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival 🌿

From GoYo to the Curios Crow, and round the corner to Dae it Yersel, local businesses joined forces for a delicious day of rhubarb fun at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival on Saturday, 25 July.

Where we celebrated our local food and drink culture through one tasty ingredient, rhubarb, as part of our mission to make Dunoon the Rhubarb Capital of Scotland.

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the heritage-inspired soft drinks brand run by .scot enterprises CIC on Hillfoot Street.

This year the festival is part of the Taste Dunoon - Food and Drink Festival, by

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is made possible with , with thanks to National Lottery players. POP shop members also support our work.

18/08/2026

🌿 From Empire-building to herbal lore, every plant tells a story in the Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Garden.

🌼 Tucked away behind the POP shop on Hillfoot Street, explore the plants, people and local heritage that inspire our soft drinks enterprise.

🌸 Packed with over 50 species of flavoursome plants, you can touch, smell and learn about the botanicals used to make drinks.

Built using reclaimed or durable materials, this intimate walled garden has a drinks hedge, hops tunnel, trained fruit trees, many rhubarb varieties and a unique blend of aromatic plants that our pollinating friends adore.

🫖 Sip and shop 🫖
Enjoy a rhubarb-flavoured tea with shortbread in the garden or a Dunoon Goes POP soft drink. We'll also be selling Dunoon Goes POP bottles and rhubarb plants.

🌱 Admission: donations welcome to support our Community Interest Company's projects.

📍 Directions Behind the POP shop at 28 Hillfoot Street, follow the underpass to the right of the POP shop. The garden is directly ahead, past the workshops.

Sorry, no dogs please.

🎵 Rhubarb Pie by Margareta

18/08/2026

🎨 Are you interested in using natural dyes? Whether you are curious or experienced, this gathering is an opportunity to come together and share our experience, interests and questions.

Please feel free to bring along examples of your natural dyeing to show.

📆 Sat, 22 August
⏰ 2pm to 3.30pm
📍POP shop workshops, behind 28 Hillfoot Street

This is the first meeting and is an opportunity to consider whether the group would like regular meetings or be interested in future workshops.

👉 We'll meet in the POP shop's workshop, follow through the gallery tunnel to the right of the POP shop at 28 Hillfoot Street to the workshops at the back left.

🫖 Refreshments and attendance for a small donation to POP shop enterprises CIC.

🙏 The idea for this gathering began thanks to Caroline Davidson's talk, Rhubarb: A Plant to Dye For at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival in July 2026. Thanks to Beverley Soltysiak for hosting.

The Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Garden is also open on Saturday, 22 August from 10am to 4pm. A drinks-makers' paradise, the garden also includes quite a few plants used for natural dyes. Have a browse.

11/08/2026

🧁 Are you a rhubarb and sugar dunker? A sweetie sucker? An ice-cream indulger?

How do you love eating rhubarb? How did you eat rhubarb when you were a child?

Tell us how you love to eat rhubarb in the comments 👇

Thanks to everyone who shared their rhubarb stories including Pebble Soup

🌿 About the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival 🌿

From to The Curios Crow, and round the corner to Dae it Yersel, local businesses joined forces for a delicious day of rhubarb fun at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival on Saturday, 25 July.

Where we celebrated our local food and drink culture through one tasty ingredient, rhubarb, as part of our mission to make Dunoon the Rhubarb Capital of Scotland.

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the heritage-inspired soft drinks brand run by The POP Shop enterprises CIC on Hillfoot Street.

This year the festival is part of the Taste Dunoon - Food and Drink Festival, by Dunoon Presents

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund with thanks to National Lottery players. POP shop members also support our work.

10/08/2026

Thankfully, Aunty Gina still has all of her fingers. 😱🔪

The Aunts and Uncles Edit. Tell us your early memories of rhubarb?

Thanks to everyone from near and far for sharing your rhubarb stories. You are contributing to our heritage research into how and why we all love rhubarb so much.

🌿 About the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival 🌿

From GoYo to the The Curios Crow, and round the corner to Dae It Yersel local businesses joined forces for a delicious day of rhubarb fun at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival on Saturday, 25 July.

Where we celebrated our local food and drink culture through one tasty ingredient, rhubarb, as part of our mission to make Dunoon the Rhubarb Capital of Scotland.

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the heritage-inspired soft drinks brand run by The POP Shop enterprises CIC on Hillfoot Street.

This year the festival is part of the Taste Dunoon - Food and Drink Festival, by Dunoon Presents

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund , with thanks to National Lottery players. POP shop members also support our work.

04/08/2026

What are your first memories of eating rhubarb?

The gran and grandad edit. From stories shared at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival in July.

Thanks to everyone who shared their stories, from local residents to American visitors, and everyone in between.

🌿 About the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival 🌿

From GoYo to the Curios Crow, and round the corner to Dae it Yersel, local businesses joined forces for a delicious day of rhubarb fun at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival on Saturday, 25 July.

Where we celebrated our local food and drink culture through one tasty ingredient, rhubarb, as part of our mission to make Dunoon the Rhubarb Capital of Scotland.

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the heritage-inspired soft drinks brand run by The POP Shop enterprises CIC on Hillfoot Street.

This year the festival is part of the Taste Dunoon - Food and Drink Festival, by Dunoon Presents

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund , with thanks to National Lottery players. POP shop members also support our work.

03/08/2026

Can’t get enough of rhubarb!

Hi folks our Rhubarb Crumble is back on the menu!
It completely sold out last weekend, and after so many of our lovely customers asked for it to return, we just had to bring it back!
Pop in while it lasts!!

03/08/2026

Coming soon!

Sugar-dipping, pudding-tasting, rhubarb-hunting stories. Your early memories and family stories.

Thanks to everyone who chatted with us at the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival and fed into our heritage research into why rhubarb is such a treat to grow, taste and make with. And for helping us in our mission to make Dunoon the Rhubarb Capital of Scotland! 🌿

🌿 About the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival 🌿

From GoYo to the Curios Crow, and round the corner to Dae it Yersel, local businesses joined forces for a delicious day of rhubarb fun for the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival on Saturday, 25 July.

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival was hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the heritage-inspired soft drinks brand run by The POP Shop enterprises CIC on Hillfoot Street.

This year the festival is part of the Taste Dunoon - Food and Drink Festival, by Dunoon Presents

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund with thanks to National Lottery players. POP shop members also support our work.