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Cullen is a historic fishing town on the Moray Firth coast, famous as the birthplace of Cullen skink — the smoked haddock chowder that has become a Scottish restaurant staple. The town sits in two parts: the clifftop upper town and the lower Seatown of fisher cottages near the bay. The Cullen Viaduct carries the old railway embankment above the town, and the Cullen Links golf course carries white clover and marram on the coastal turf. The Burn of Cullen flows through a wooded valley with elder, alder and sycamore inland from the bay. Oilseed rape is grown on the agricultural hinterland south of the A98.

Oilseed rape on the coastal Laigh of Moray is the defining spring flow: dense sowings between Elgin, Forres and Fochabers flower from late April and can fill a super rapidly on warm days. White clover follows on the improved grassland and roadside verges of the coastal plain through June and July. Sycamore is the dominant woodland forage tree, supplemented by hawthorn on field margins and elder along burn and river corridors. The heather of the Speyside hills and the Dava Moor above Grantown provides a significant late-summer crop accessible from Forres, Keith and the inland villages. Raspberries are grown commercially in parts of the Spey valley, adding a nectar source less common elsewhere in Scotland.