Saturday was market day in Logierait, ten miles away from Aberfeldy but still our local market. It’s at the other end of Strath Tay from the ancient market site I visited about a month ago but it’s a living hint of what the old markets like that one at Inchadney were all about.
Logierait is a new market, started a few years ago by a local community group but now Pete and Fiona from Mill of Logierait farm run it and it’s a great place to go. There are plenty 
of stalls but there’s also live music, an outdoor cafe and even a wee train that can take you on a gentle chug around the farm for a couple of quid. It’s become a regular part of my life. I go to shop: there’s great bread on sale, superb chocolate, plenty of meat, including wild game, fish, veg, cakes, locally roasted coffee, plants, bric-a-brac and all sorts of crafty things. But I also go to meet up with people and do some small bits of business. So this month I was helping to publicise the new season of our local film society, sold some of the stuff I’ve been clearing out my house, did my weekly shop, met up with friends and made various social and work arrangements. Even Todd, my dog, had a good time and met up with plenty of doggy friends.
of stalls but there’s also live music, an outdoor cafe and even a wee train that can take you on a gentle chug around the farm for a couple of quid. It’s become a regular part of my life. I go to shop: there’s great bread on sale, superb chocolate, plenty of meat, including wild game, fish, veg, cakes, locally roasted coffee, plants, bric-a-brac and all sorts of crafty things. But I also go to meet up with people and do some small bits of business. So this month I was helping to publicise the new season of our local film society, sold some of the stuff I’ve been clearing out my house, did my weekly shop, met up with friends and made various social and work arrangements. Even Todd, my dog, had a good time and met up with plenty of doggy friends. It seems like a simple thing, a few stalls in a field but it is makes a much pleasanter and more productive morning out than a trudge around a 
supermarket. It’s what markets should be about, local makers and producers selling direct, a local farm doing their best to diversify and a valuable gathering place for people from Aberfeldy, Dunkeld, Pitlochry, all the places between and a good few from further afield too. It’s made a real difference to Highland Perthshire where there is a real struggle to maintain a sense of community in an area with a small and dispersed population. It’s great to see a living version of the ancient markets that dotted the human landscape around here for so many centuries. Long may it prosper!
supermarket. It’s what markets should be about, local makers and producers selling direct, a local farm doing their best to diversify and a valuable gathering place for people from Aberfeldy, Dunkeld, Pitlochry, all the places between and a good few from further afield too. It’s made a real difference to Highland Perthshire where there is a real struggle to maintain a sense of community in an area with a small and dispersed population. It’s great to see a living version of the ancient markets that dotted the human landscape around here for so many centuries. Long may it prosper! 
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