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Kitchen & Garden

A simple life grown from the soil and cooked at the hearth

This is the heart of our home: the place where seedlings become suppers, herbs become teas, and baskets of vegetables become warm meals shared around the table.
Everything here begins in the soil and ends in the kitchen — slow, seasonal, and rooted in the rhythms of Cornwall.
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Garden Produce

We love growing veg and flowers and have been doing so for many years. We are starting again due to a house move (and a move to a new county). We have been working on our kitchen garden for just under a year and look forward to turning it into a steady supply for our kitchen larder.

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Meet Our Ducks

We've kept Silver Appleyards for many years. A lovely, large and docile breed to have around the garden, and the bonus is they eat all the slugs and lay the most nutritious eggs, perfect for baking.

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Sunflowers

Sunflowers are some of our favourite flowers to grow and it has become a family tradition to grow them each year. We try lots of different varieties. Some of our favourites are; Kong, Titan, and Black Magic.

🌱 IN THE GARDEN

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A cottage garden is never finished — it shifts, grows, rests, and surprises.
Here is where we plant, tend and gather what feeds us, heals us, and inspires our daily life.

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What We Grow

  • Vegetables: tomatoes, aubergine, peppers, salads, peas, beans, leafy greens, roots, squash

  • Herbs: rosemary, thyme, sage, mint, chamomile, calendula, lavender

  • Fruit & Nuts: apples, berries, pears, plums, hazel, walnuts

  • Cut flowers: sweet peas, cornflowers, cosmos, dahlias, tulips, sunflowers, roses

  • Trees & perennials: small orchard trees, native hedging, medicinal plants

  • Tropicals: coffee, banana, papaya, citrus, ginger

 

How We Grow

  • No-dig beds

  • Kitchen compost

  • Seed starting on windowsills

  • Propagating plants to grow and to gift

  • Saving seeds for next season

  • Permaculture-inspired layouts

  • Using what we have, making do & tending gently

 

Seasonal Notes

Each season shifts our work:

  • Spring: seed sowing & soil preparation

  • Summer: abundance, watering, drying herbs

  • Autumn: harvest & putting the garden to bed

  • Winter: planning, pruning, mulching

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IN THE KITCHEN

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Cooking here is slow and simple — food gathered from the garden, hedgerows, or the seashore.
It’s not about perfection. It’s about nourishment, warmth, and using what the season gives.

 

How We Cook

  • From-scratch meals

  • Seasonal recipes

  • Foraged additions

  • Herbal teas and infusions

  • Slow cooking in winter

  • Simple baking with the children

  • Jams, chutneys, cordials and preserves

 

Some of the Food We Make Through the Year

  • Winter: soups, stews, root vegetables, apple bakes

  • Spring: fresh herbs, green sauces, rhubarb, wild garlic

  • Summer: salads, berry jams, cordials, herb salts

  • Autumn: chutneys, pies, roasted squash, cider vinegar

 

Herbal Drinks & Kitchen Remedies

  • Elderberry syrup

  • Rosehip honey

  • Fire cider

  • Mint, thyme & chamomile teas

  • Infused vinegars & honeys

  • Herb oils for cooking and salves

 

Foraging Notes

A gentle approach to gathering:

  • Take little

  • Leave plenty

  • Know your plants

  • Follow the seasons

  • Honour the land

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