The shop on River Line.

How we got here

We opened the doors we used to drive past.

It came down both sides of my family. Before it was legal, before there were licences and labels and anybody calling it an industry, this is what my people did. I grew up around it — around the knock at the door, the talk at the kitchen table, and the fact that the whole thing ran on your word being good.

When it became something you could do properly, out in the open, we wanted to do it here. Bothwell is home. A small town notices everything, which is exactly the right pressure to build a shop under — you cannot hide behind a brand when the person at the counter went to school with your cousin.

We opened in October 2021 and built it around two things: family and the town. Family, because that is who stands behind the counter and who taught me what good product looks like. The town, because a shop like this should be somewhere you can send your mother, ask a straight question, and get a straight answer. That is the whole plan. It has not changed.