Perthshire Produce Guide
The classic taste of Scotland
The fresh, green environment of Perthshire is perfect for producing a wide range of quality food and drink. This is where you'll find the best of Scottish produce: beef and lamb from extensive grasslands; salmon and venison from the rivers and mountains; strawberries and raspberries from sunny straths; and whisky distilled from pure spring water. The most pleasurable way to discover the quality and breadth of local food and drink is to try it for yourself. Local chefs use Perthshire's delicious produce in hotels, restaurants and cafés throughout the area. You can find it on sale at Perth Farmers' Market and in the many specialist retailers and farm shops. The Perthshire Produce brochure (PDF - 2.9 Mb) provides a flavour of what Perthshire has to offer. It looks at some distinctive products, and the people and places that make them special. There is only space to illustrate a small selection of the many businesses committed to producing the best.
- The fertile, easily worked soils of Lowland Perthshire and Kinross-shire are ideal for growing cereals, potatoes and other vegetables. These gentle southern areas are also home to dairy and poultry farms.
- In Highland Perthshire, grassy hill slopes provide perfect conditions for rearing livestock, which are finished on lush pastures in the valleys. Moorlands and woods are a rich source of game, while beehives in these uplands produce the most wonderful heather honey.
- Perthshire's rivers, especially the mighty Tay, are famous for their salmon and trout - eaten fresh or smoked. Clear, pure water flowing from the hills feeds these rivers and is bottled at source as spring water and used by distilleries in whisky production.
- This part of the world is perhaps best known for its berries, which make up a large proportion of the UK's soft fruit production. Fruit and other crops do so well here because of the favourable climate: cool winters and warm summers, with enough but not too much rain and plenty of sunshine.
