Logie Steading& Estate

Logie Steading sits on the Logie Estate near Dunphail, a few miles south of Forres, in a group of sandstone farm buildings put up as a model farm in 1926. The estate has belonged to the same family since 1924, when Sir Alexander Grant, the biscuit manufacturer credited with developing the digestive biscuit, bought the land; his descendants, now into a sixth generation, still own it. The steading buildings, once home to around a hundred Ayrshire dairy cows through the 1970s and 80s, were converted into a group of independent shops and a cafe during the 1990s. Today the site combines a farm and garden shop selling local produce, plants and hardy Scottish-grown stock, an art gallery showing work from more than a hundred artists, a secondhand bookshop, an antiques dealer, and the Cafe at Logie Steading. Everything sits within walking distance of trails along the River Divie, including the route to Randolph's Leap. Shops and cafe open seven days a week for most of the year.