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Kintore is a historic royal burgh on the River Don, twelve miles north-west of Aberdeen and a mile north of Inverurie, set in the heart of the Aberdeenshire oilseed rape belt. The town has grown substantially as a commuter settlement served by its railway station on the Aberdeen–Inverness line, but the surrounding Don valley farmland and the wider Garioch plain give bees one of the most productive spring flows in the north-east: the rape fields run from Kintore north to Inverurie and east toward the Formartine plain, filling supers from late April. The River Don's bankside willows, alder and hawthorn provide the post-rape transition forage; white clover is heavy on the improved pastures through June and July. The lower slopes of the Hill of Fare to the south-west carry heather and bilberry accessible in late July.

Oilseed rape on the vast arable belt around Inverurie, Turriff and Ellon is the defining early flow — Scotland's single biggest rape region. Hawthorn and sycamore carry the post-rape period; lime lights Aberdeen's granite streets in June. The heather of Royal Deeside, the Ladder Hills and the Cabrach gives one of the finest and most commercially worked heather honey flows in Britain. Bilberry and hill forage add; a short but real ivy flow on the granite villages finishes the year.