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Forres is an ancient royal burgh in the western Laigh of Moray, where Macbeth's three witches are traditionally said to have met on the nearby Hardmuir heath. The town is set between the Findhorn estuary to the north and the Darnaway and Altyre estate forests to the south, giving local bees access to a productive combination of riverside alder and willow, mixed broadleaf estate woodland and the oilseed rape fields of the Laigh. Grant Park at the centre of Forres carries mature lime and sycamore, and the Findhorn valley heathland is accessible to the south and east for the late-summer heather flow.

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.