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Dufftown is the self-styled whisky capital of the world, a planned town at the head of the Dullan Water valley where four distilleries — Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Mortlach and Kininvie — are active. The town square clock tower is the centre of a compact planned townscape, and the River Dullan below the town carries a valley of alder, ash and sycamore. The surrounding Speyside hills carry heather moorland above the conifer forestry plantations, and the valley-floor improved grassland provides white clover through June and July. The Conval Hills to the east represent some of the finest heather walking in Moray.

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.