Introducing PeachyKeen Urban Farm

Introducing PeachyKeen Urban Farm

For the last while we have been quietly growing.

You might have seen us at a few events, handing out little trays of microgreens and watching people’s faces when they tried them. We were not really selling. We were testing. Proving that our growing system works, that the flavour holds up, that people actually want this stuff.

They do. So here we are, ready to make it official.

PeachyKeen Urban Farm is our newest division, growing fresh microgreens in the middle of Kirkcaldy and selling them straight to you. Grown in our own workshop, powered by renewable energy, harvested at their best and never shipped halfway across the country to get to you.

Right now we grow seven varieties.

• Sunflower
• Pea Shoots
• Rainbow Radish
• Kale
• Broccoli Calabrese,
• Rocket
• Coriander.

Small leaves, big flavour, and packed with more good stuff per bite than almost anything else you can eat.

“We have been building up to this carefully,” says Andrew Bowie, founder of PeachyKeen. “We wanted to be sure we could do it properly before we asked anyone to rely on us. We are nearly there, and we would rather start small and get it right than promise the world and let people down.”

That is why we are doing this as a founding customer release.

We are opening a limited number of boxes to begin with, while we build our growing capacity. If you get in now, you become a founding customer. That means first access to every batch, first pick as we add new varieties, and the good feeling of being part of this from the very start.

We have spent a long time proving this could be done. Now we get to share it.

• Posted on August 10th, 2026 in Uncategorised

Why Urban Farming In Kirkcaldy

Round the back of Kirk Wynd in Kirkcaldy there is a building that started life in the 1890s as a stable. Horses once lived here. Now it grows food.

That is the short version of the PeachyKeen Urban Farm. The longer version is more fun.

We wanted to prove something. That you could take a tired old building, the kind you see boarded up on high streets everywhere, and turn it into a working farm without plugging it into anything. No mains power. No fuss. Just the weather doing the work.

So the building runs off grid. Twenty three solar panels catch the Fife sunshine, such as it is. A small wind turbine takes the rest. There are human powered devices too, because old habits die hard and we are still a human energy company at heart. Even the rain earns its keep. We collect it, filter it, and use it to water the crops. Sometimes we run it through a turbine on the way and squeeze a bit more energy out of it before it reaches the plants.

Inside, the growing happens without soil. The plants sit on trays under bright LED light, fed by water and nutrients on a gentle recirculating loop. If you stand quietly you can hear it, a soft trickle running through the shelves. It is a controlled little world in there. The light, the water, the temperature, all kept just right, which means we can grow all year round no matter what the Scottish weather is doing outside.

Because the power comes from the sun, the wind and the rain, the cost of running it drops to almost nothing.

“That is the whole point,” says Andrew Bowie, founder of PeachyKeen. “Once the system is in place, your energy is basically free. That changes the maths completely. You can grow fresh food in the middle of town, at almost no running cost, in a building that was doing nothing before. If it works here, in a 130 year old stable in Kirkcaldy, there is no reason it cannot work on any high street in the country.”

That last part matters, because the farm was never just about the farm. It is a live demonstration of our 5P Project, our plan to bring empty town centre buildings back to life as places that grow food, make power and serve the community.

The microgreens you can now buy from us are grown in exactly this way. Fresh, local, and grown on sunshine and rain.

It is a proper little proof of concept. And it tastes good too.

• Posted on August 9th, 2026 in Uncategorised

Why PeachyKeen is growing Microgreens

Most people know PeachyKeen for one thing. We turn human movement into electricity. Pedal a bike, power a cinema. Get a crowd moving, light up a room. It has been our bread and butter for years, and we love it.

So when we start talking about kale and coriander, people give us a look. A fair look. What has a company built on human energy got to do with growing food?

Everything, as it turns out.

Our whole business has always been about one idea. Take something we waste, and make it useful. We started with human movement because it was the most obvious waste of all, thousands of people burning energy in a gym and none of it going anywhere. Once you start thinking that way, you cannot stop. Empty buildings on the high street. Rain running off the roof. Sunlight hitting a wall all afternoon. All of it going to waste while shops sit boarded up and food travels hundreds of miles to reach a shelf.

That thinking is what became the 5P Project. Five pillars that guide everything we do. People, Place, Planet, Prosperity, and Peachy Keen. It started as four, if we are honest, and the fifth was us cheekily adding ourselves to make it roll off the tongue. But it stuck, because each P earned its place.

“We are a renewable energy company that learned how to power an urban farm,” says Andrew Bowie, founder of PeachyKeen. “We did not come at it from farming and go looking for power. We came at it from power and realised we could grow food with it. That is a very different starting point, and it changes what is possible.”

Here is what it makes possible. A disused building, powered by the sun, the wind and the rain, growing fresh food in the middle of town at almost no cost. Not a concept on a slide. A working farm in a 130-year-old stable on Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy, doing it right now.

The farm was always meant to prove the point. If we could grow good food in an old building on renewable power, then any tired town centre building could do the same. That is the vision, and the food is the proof.

But the food turned out to be rather good. Good enough that people kept asking to buy it. So we are giving them the chance.

PeachyKeen Urban Farm is now a proper part of what we do. Same company, same mission, same building. We are just letting you taste the results.

• Posted on August 8th, 2026 in Urban Farn