Pictures: Countryside Live at Mackies
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After two year's of postponement due to Covid-19, hundreds of families from across the north-east were finally able to head out to Mackie's farm at Westerton for the Countryside Live event which was organised by the Royal Northern Agricultural Society.
The event, which was held in aid of Charlie House, Maggie's Aberdeen and Muscular Dystrophy UK, offered visitors the chance to see round a working farm and see where the world famous ice-cream and chocolate were produced.
This included the milking, production, packaging and freezing plant.
Associated sights on the farm included a display from the Strathorn Clydesdales, sheepdog trials and butchery demonstrations from QMS.
One of the most popular events was a tractor and trailer tour of the farm which took people up to the top of the hill at the site to see the turbines and the solar farm that helps power the site.
With lots of ice-cream and chocolate on sale at the site, there was a queue to to take part in product tasting where various flavours and textures were pitted against each other, with real market research being undertaken.
A busy farmer's market offered an eclectic mix of items, from goats milk soap to local gins and farm produced beef and pork.
