Ballintaggart - Where Scotland Grows

On a Perthshire hillside, where moody glens spill onto wildflower meadows, the gastronomic hideaway Ballintaggart showcases the best of the Highlands’ natural larder in its cookery school, bed and breakfast, and award-winning restaurant.

Stalks of fennel, kale and artichoke bob in the breeze in a boxed kitchen garden. Stretching as far as the eye can see are wild, tangled hedgerows, and there’s a fruit orchard dangling apples and plums. Babbling chickens bustle on the fringes of a vast wildflower meadow, 11 acres of grasses, buttercups and ox eye daisies that segues into lower Highlands hills. A collection of stone farmhouse buildings squats among it all on a panoramic perch, enjoying the late autumn sun that bathes the south-facing slope in gold. This is Ballintaggart, a gastronomic nook in Perthshire’s Tay Valley.