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Keith Findlay identifies some of the consumer trends driving north-east food and drink firms down the sustainability road.

As our Taste Makers series continues, we caught up with Forest Farm director Angus Willis to hear all about the award-winning organic dairy.

Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A pharmacy chain has lodged plans to install a medicine “vending machine” at one of its north-east branches. Davidsons Chemist, which runs a store on Banchory High Street, wants to use the Pharmasafe24 robot to let customers pick up prescriptions around the clock. It says this would ...

Already operating a self-service farm shop on-site, which is home to Scotland’s first milk vending machine, the new extension will see the 50m2 staffed farm shop feature hot drinks to takeaway and a gelateria to enjoy Italian-style gelato from, made with fresh milk from the cows at the farm. Angus said: “We’re hoping to be open by the second week in March. We had some delays with the snow so we’re working as fast as we can. There’s still so much uncertainty just now so getting tradesp...