Kitchen Gardens
the heart of every hotel
It all starts in the garden
The Kitchen Garden is at the heart of every PIG. It sets the rhythm of our menus, guides what we grow, and inspires everything we cook. What we can’t grow ourselves, we source from local farmers, fishermen and foragers – always within 25 miles. The gardens are living, working spaces that bring food from soil to plate every day.
It always starts in the Kitchen Garden
Each morning, our gardeners hand over baskets of just-picked fruit, herbs and vegetables to the chefs. From tender greens to edible flowers, what’s growing today becomes dinner tonight.
Rooted in the seasons
We grow with the weather, not against it. Menus change constantly – spring greens, summer berries, autumn squash, winter brassicas – meaning no two visits ever taste quite the same.
Greenhouses and polytunnels
Our greenhouses are where we often experiment with plants you'd never expect to stumble across! But it's not all veg patches and fruit cages in THE PIG Kitchen Gardens...our polytunnels are our secret weapon! Our Kitchen Gardeners use them to protect our plants from the elements, and to support their growth all year-round.
As well as this, we have a unique mix of four-legged, feathered and buzzy friends across the litter.
Come and see what's growing
Our animals
Each PIG has its own smallholding of characters, all native to our regions. Our chickens cluck out fresh breakfast eggs, quails bustle in their runs, sheep graze and tend our fields, and our pigs snuffle through the soil, enriching it as they go. They’re not here for show, but part of our way of life – keeping us grounded in the land and flavours that make each PIG unique.
Our bees and hives
Almost all of our PIGs have beehives on site and since we started our beekeeping project we have grown our apiary to over 80 hives across the litter. They have become a key feature to our Kitchen Gardens and essential to creating the perfect breakfast table. Unlike other commercially produced honey, our honey is raw, unpasteurised and unprocessed - meaning we don’t strip out all the natural nutrients, pollen, antioxidants and immune-boosting benefits of the honey during the extraction process. Our bees collect pollen and nectar from what they find in their local area, so each honey will be unique to each PIG and tastes like the flowers used to make it.
Daily Kitchen Garden tours
The Kitchen Gardens are spaces to explore. Guests are free to wander the beds, chat to the gardeners, and see for themselves how each PIG is connected to its patch of land. Each morning we offer a guided tour which is free to join.
"Our Kitchen Gardens are never about neat rows and perfection. They're about working with the seasons, growing what thrives in our soil, and letting the garden lead the way"
Ollie Hutson, Head Kitchen Gardener
