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Dunoon Goes POP, run by POP shop enterprises CIC.

🍹Community-crafted soft drinks and drinks experiences.
🌿Drinks gardens at the POP shop and tending at the Top Shop, Dunoon.
📍Inspired by our town's People Of Place (POP).

18/05/2026

In Dunoon, taste matters.

"For anyone thinking about entering, go for it!" says Planted_by_Sai , one of last year's rhubarb competition prizewinners.

👨‍🌾 Taste. Size. Creativity. 🧑‍🍳

Are you ready for the challenge?

Enter your best rhubarb produce in the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival competitions and share your skill, flair and creativity with the community!

Show your tasty makes and giant stalks to be in with the chance of winning Best in Show.

🌱 Biggest stalk of rhubarb
🌱 Best rhubarb chutney
🌱 Best rhubarb jam
🌱 Best rhubarb show stopper

Start planning your prize-winning produce to show at Dunoon’s inaugural Rhubarb Festival.

What is this rhubarb competition all about?

Read more, find out the categories on our website https://www.popshop.scot/post/rhubarb-festival-competitions-2026

👉 Hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is back for it's second year. And it's expanding, with more venues along Hillfoot Street getting involved.

🎉 Dunoon Rhubarb Festival, Hillfoot Street, is part of the Taste Dunoon Food and Drink Festival produced by Dunoon Presents

Previous entrants included local bakers and cooks Coorie Cooks Planted_by_Sai Local Hero Cafe , as well as home bakers like the talented Joanne, who won Best in Show in two categories!



🎵Rain on Me (instrumentals) by Zox

Thanks to Hays Ways in The Scotsman :Dunoon now has an annual rhubarb festival, returning for its second year in July, a...
17/05/2026

Thanks to Hays Ways in The Scotsman :

Dunoon now has an annual rhubarb festival, returning for its second year in July, and Ms Clinch wants the town to become the rhubarb capital of Scotland.

“The plant is not from here but it’s easy to grow,” Hannah says. “We’ve managed to get people growing it in their own gardens and the next stage is plant at a bigger scale and for the festival to be a celebration of that.”

There is, undeniably, an eccentricity to the movement. Yet the root of the rhubarb boom is to nurture something that builds community connection and resilience in an economically fragile town.

Ms Clinch, who has worked in community development for more than two decades, is one of the co-founders of Dunoon Goes POP (DGPOP) an enterprise producing rhubarb drinks inspired by the town’s former soft drinks factory, built in the 1880s by local pharmacist George Stirling. But the initiative, with its own garden to grow plants for making beverages with, also provides a co-working space and hosts workshops and events aimed at reconnecting people with Dunoon’s heritage while creating opportunities for employment.

Read the full article 👇

https://www.scotsman.com/hays-way/hays-way-how-rhubarb-is-helping-to-revive-a-small-scottish-town-8544990 #

And thank you to Charmaine for nudging Katharine from Hays Ways in our direction 🌿

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Coming up soon 🌱🌿
13/05/2026

Coming up soon 🌱🌿

Have you read all about it yet? Dunoon’s rhubarb revolution is front-cover news in Scotland Grows Magazine summer issue...
11/05/2026

Have you read all about it yet? Dunoon’s rhubarb revolution is front-cover news in Scotland Grows Magazine summer issue. It's a fantastic publication, packed full of articles and tips written by gardeners in Scotland for Scotland's gardens and climate. And we're delighted that Dunoon is featured.

Thanks to the Scotland Grows team for the feature, which greatly supports our rhubarb revolution! 🌱🙌

Yes, we do believe that Dunoon could become the rhubarb capital of Scotland, and we're absolutely blown away at how many of you are joining us for this journey.

How can you take part?

🌱 Come along to our Rhubarb Festival on Saturday, 25 July.
🌱 Buy some of our rhubarb plants and get planting it in your garden.
🌱 Tell us all about your rhubarb patch through our Green Map
🌱 And read more by purchasing Scotland Grows magazine at www.scotlandgrowsmagazine.com and read more on our website www.popshop.scot

🙌 Special thanks to M.T. and Julianne from Scotland Grows – come and visit us sometime!

Dunoon Goes POP is a community-crafted soft-drinks enterprise run by POP shop enterprises CIC. Rhubarb and soft drinks syrup sales go back into supporting our Dunoon Goes POP projects.

11/05/2026

In Dunoon, rhubarb matters.

👨‍🌾 Taste. Size. Creativity. 🧑‍🍳

Are you ready for the challenge?

Enter your best rhubarb produce in the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival competitions and share your skill, flair and creativity with the community!

Show your tasty makes and giant stalks to be in with the chance of winning Best in Show.

🌱 Biggest stalk of rhubarb
🌱 Best rhubarb chutney
🌱 Best rhubarb jam
🌱 Best rhubarb show stopper

Start planning your prize-winning produce to show at Dunoon’s inaugural Rhubarb Festival.

What is this rhubarb competition all about?

Read more, find out the categories on our website https://www.popshop.scot/post/rhubarb-festival-competitions-2026

👉 Hosted by Dunoon Goes POP, the Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is back for it's second year. And it's expanding, with more venues along Hillfoot Street getting involved.

🎉 Dunoon Rhubarb Festival, Hillfoot Street, is part of the Taste Dunoon Food and Drink Festival produced by Dunoon Presents

Previous entrants included local bakers and cooks Coorie Cooks Planted_by_Sai Local Hero Cafe , as well as home bakers like the talented Joanne, who won Best in Show in two categories!



🎵Rain on Me (instrumentals) by Zox

Made in Valrose, the film we worked on with Argyll filmmakers Jim Parkyn and Alasdair Satchel and local people last year...
07/05/2026

Made in Valrose, the film we worked on with Argyll filmmakers Jim Parkyn and Alasdair Satchel and local people last year is part of this years Dunoon Film Festival 👇🎬

As part of this year’s Made in Argyll programme, Dunoon Goes POP will be screening their own short film at Dunoon Burgh Hall on Sunday:

🎬 2.45pm – Dunoon Goes POP presents: Made in Valrose
A short film about life in Valrose / Cowal Place, Dunoon.
6 mins | Jim Parkyn & Alasdair Satchel | 2025 | NC

Also screening in the Made in Argyll section:

🎥 Stones Throw from Nowhere – 3pm
🎥 Clyde Reflections – 3.45pm
🎥 Expressing the Earth – 4.30pm

A brilliant chance to see films made in and inspired by our community ❤️

Back again for 2026, and this time we’re excited to be part of Dunoon Presents Taste Dunoon food and drink festival. See...
06/05/2026

Back again for 2026, and this time we’re excited to be part of Dunoon Presents Taste Dunoon food and drink festival. See you there for more rhubarb fun! 🌿

05/05/2026

What's popping up in the TopShop Dunoon garden this spring? 🌱

Here are some of the drinks-making plants that are coming back in the Top Shop garden, tended by Dunoon Goes POP.

🌱 Blackcurrants
🌱 Rhubarb
🌱 Lemon balm
🌱 Lemon balm variegated
🌱 Grape hyacinth
🌱 Oregano
🌱 Oregano 'Country Cream'
🌱 Cola plant
🌱 Sage

We'll share more about these plants over the summer as we continue to tend to the garden.

And we'll be adding more flowers for pollinators to bring back the colour on the corner and provide nectar for bees and butterflies this summer. 🌼 🌸🐝 🦋

👀 Look out for our drinks plant giveaway later in May for the Valrose community around the Top Shop.

🙌 Our work at the Top Shop garden and around the Valrose community is a partnership between Dunoon Community Development Trust and POP shop enterprises CIC. Supported by Development Trusts Association Scotland and Argyll Community Housing Association - ACHA Group

Thanks to Ronnie for letting us use his space to cultivate this mini-drinks maker's garden.

We're opening our garden as part of Scotland's Gardens Scheme this summer.📆 Saturdays 30 May, 27 June and 25 July.⏰ 10am...
04/05/2026

We're opening our garden as part of Scotland's Gardens Scheme this summer.

📆 Saturdays 30 May, 27 June and 25 July.
⏰ 10am to 5pm
📍Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Garden

👉 Tours and tastings 👈
Discover more on a tour and taste some of our soft drinks inspired by Dunoon’s People of Place (POP).

⏰ 10am, 12pm and 2pm in the garden

🌸 Where every plant tells a story 🌸

From Empire building to herbal lore, every plant tells a story in the Dunoon Goes POP Drinks Garden. Tucked away in the centre of the town behind the POP shop, explore the plants, people and local heritage that inspire their soft drinks enterprise.

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

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

Discover more on a garden tour.

☕Sip and Shop ☕

We'll also be selling Dunoon Goes POP syrups and rhubarb plants, and a guest herb grower will be selling plants.

Teas also available for purchase.

👉 Admission 👈

£5 suggested donation on the day

Your entry admission goes towards two great causes: 60% to Dunoon's POP shop enterprises CIC and 40% to Scotland's Garden Scheme.

📍Where to find us 📍

Behind the POP shop, 28 Hillfoot Street. Follow the underpass to the right of the POP shop, the garden is directly ahead, past the workshops.

Scotland's Gardens Scheme

🌳We planted this quince tree last year thanks to a kind donation. 🌳Quince is one of over 50 species of plants in the Dun...
30/04/2026

🌳We planted this quince tree last year thanks to a kind donation. 🌳

Quince is one of over 50 species of plants in the Dunoon Goes POP drinks garden that can be used to make drinks.

Apples, pears, lemons, limes, and now quince; we have a growing range of trees growing produce with a drinks-making connection.

Discover the heritage stories behind quince and other plants in the garden on a tour this summer when we open for Scotland's Gardens Scheme. Browse dates and tour times 👉 https://www.popshop.scot/events

Or pop in and have a look at the quince one Wednesday this May, we'll have our gates open during the day for a browse. With a selection of rhubarb plants for sale.

🙌 And thanks again to our donor who enabled us to purchase this quince tree. It is much appreciated.

🌼 Every donation, purchase or kind word means the world to us at Dunoon Goes POP and helps us on our community mission!

Dunoon Goes POP is run by POP shop enterprises, a Community Interest Company based on Hillfoot Street, Dunoon.

Scotland's Gardens Argyll thanks for supporting us as part of the scheme 🌿

🌿What's on at Dunoon Goes POP this summer 🌿👨‍🌾 Garden Tours and Tastings 👨‍🌾📆 Saturdays, 30 May, 27 June, 25 July⏰ 10am ...
13/04/2026

🌿What's on at Dunoon Goes POP this summer 🌿

👨‍🌾 Garden Tours and Tastings 👨‍🌾

📆 Saturdays, 30 May, 27 June, 25 July
⏰ 10am to 5pm
🌱 £5 suggested donation

Explore our delicious Drinks Garden as we open for Scotland’s Garden Scheme.
Tours and tastings at 10am, 12pm, 2pm.

🌸 Garden Open Gate 🌸

📆 Wednesdays, 10am to 4pm

Explore our Drinks Garden filled with over 50 species of flavoursome plants that can be used to make drinks. Our garden gate will open on Wednesdays through spring and summer, depending on the weather.

🌿 Dunoon Rhubarb Festival 🌿

📆 Saturday, 25 July
⏰ 11am to 4pm
📍Hillfoot Street

Rhubarb competitions, talks, tastings and other tasty activities at the POP shop and other venues along Hillfoot Street. We'll announce more soon!

The Dunoon Rhubarb Festival is also part of Taste Dunoon Food and Drink Festival Dunoon Presents

Browse our events 👉 https://www.popshop.scot/events

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28 Hillfoot Street
Dunoon
PA237DS

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