We can’t say it often enough: Scottish food and drink is amongst the best in the world, and Blairgowrie’s reputation as the ‘Berry toon’ puts east Perthshire and its wonderful local produce firmly at the heart of that.

While many restaurants support local producers and growers by selling and using their produce, ensuring that it is as fresh as possible when it arrives on your table, you can also purchase it yourself during your visit to the area.

As well as the berries, which you can often buy from roadside stalls by several of the farms, we have our very own internationally renowned and award-winning chocolatier, Taystful, based in Blairgowrie, whose delicious products you can buy from Mitchell’s on the High Street – itself a treasure trove of local produce and traditional sweet treats.

Just a few doors down, Cornerstone Deli stocks a wide range of local produce, everything from oatcakes and jams to local gins from Persie Gins and botanical spirits from Highland Boundary as well as cheeses, salads, coffee, wines and beers.

Heather Hills Honey is a traditional family-run honey farm in Bridge of Cally, and there’s even a craft mead maker, the Rookery, which uses hand-foraged ingredients.

The Wright Root Market Garden grows organic veg, Skea Organics specialises in potatoes and Incheoch Farm is renowned for its lamb – and free range eggs!