A Kitchen Garden
No ingredients taste better than those just picked. So, in 2004 we commissioned a kitchen garden within the Griffin's grounds, which achieved organic status after the usual waiting period. We grew peas, artichokes, squashes, beans, cucumbers and everything else you can imagine, as well as planting fruit trees and bushes.
After running the kitchen garden ourselves for 19 years, in Autumn 2023 we decided it was better to allow the ground to be run by someone who really knows how to operate a commercial garden and handed it over to Marie Pope of Alfie Dan's Market Garden.
We'll still be able to source fresh produce every day from just 50 steps from the kitchen, but we now know there is every incentive for that to be the best produce.
And our guests will be able to take home produce from a little stall that Marie plans to run several days a week from the back gate.
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