Stewart Tower – Breakfast and Ice Cream on a Perthshire Farm
A few hours.
The route
A morning at a working dairy farm near Stanley, where the ice cream is made from the farm's own milk.
Breakfast comes first in a round stone café, then the farm shop and the ice cream counter, with pygmy goats, sheep, pigs and ponies on the farm.
Before you go
Book accommodation nearby
If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.
The nearest of ours is The Old Farmhouse in Logiealmond. Sleeps 8.
The day
Stewart Tower
Breakfast in the Roundhouse, the farm shop, and an ice cream to finish.
About two hours
Stewart Tower Dairy
A shop
Stewart Tower is a working dairy farm near Stanley, a mile off the A9 between Perth and Dunkeld. Its Holstein Friesian herd gives the milk for the farm's own gelato-style ice cream, made with Scottish cream in Italian batch freezers, and the flavours at the counter change through the year. The café and ice cream parlour fill the Roundhouse, a round stone horse engine house of about 1840, with the Perthshire hills beyond its windows. Breakfast comes first, then light lunches and home baking, and tables are first come, first served. Pygmy goats, sheep, pigs and ponies live on the farm too, and the farm shop has a cheese counter, local meat, fruit and veg, bakes from the kitchen and tubs of ice cream to take home.
If it rains
The Roundhouse café and the farm shop are indoors.
Where to stay
Photographs by Kat E and Stewart Tower Dairy via Google
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