Our garden is a multifaceted entity for producing food, yes we do grow flowers too and herbs but all for the enhancement of food. We have planned and re-planned our garden over the last two years, this has meant moving some perrenial plants and re-establishing boundaries.But now in our third year here we have settled on the size and positioning that will stay for the foreseeable future.

We grow winter vegetables and soft fruit in an area, which we are establishing hedges around at the moment and it will be kept free from encroaching, free range animals. The two areas will be separated with a path and a tunnel made from hazel branches over it. The tunnel and path will
lead us to the main vegetable garden and through a gate.

Soft Fruit Garden extended for this year Note the Volunteers working hard.

The main vegetable garden is cleared completely each and every year; by our pigs it's a two-way arrangement. The pigs get extra nourishment and exercise and we get the garden cleared ready to re-plant and better tasting pork. We think this is a Win Win situation and one we have enjoyed for 5 years now, both here and in Wales.

The raised beds and solar tunnel are close to the house out side of the hedged area we have planed. Some of the beds are used for special perennial plants like Asparagus and other are used for soft fruit bushes or for nursery beds. The solar tunnel is used to germinate seeds at the beginning of the season, and then to grow exotics at the height of the season and at the end of the normal season we put tender plants in it to over winter or extend the life of other plants like chard.

The orchard is entirely newly planted and will expand year on year, at this time we have Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Peaches, and Greengages. Our intention is to keep adding to our collection with new species year after year until we have exhausted our inquisitive tongues.