Kitchen Garden

Goldsborough Hall has a fully working and traditional kitchen garden to supply fresh produce for our Dining Room. When it comes to food miles, we are very old fashioned and prefer them in feet and inches!

Since 2011 we have grown vegetables for the Hall's kitchen in the old kitchen garden but the old ruined greenhouse needed replacing. In 2017 we started creating a new kitchen garden that would provide our team of chefs with the finest, freshest ingredients while also being a beautiful space for guests to enjoy.

Produce from the Hall’s kitchen garden

The glasshouse was constructed by Woodpecker Joinery, a respected family firm who have been awarded a Royal Warrant from HRH The Prince of Wales. In early 2018 a beautiful traditional glasshouse was built from reclaimed brick and cedar wood to sit as the centre piece of the newly restored kitchen gardens.

The rest of the kitchen garden has been laid out with huge raised beds, requiring half a mile of oak beams, all centred around a large fountain and rill water feature.

Produce from the kitchen gardens varies seasonally and includes many berries (strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and blackcurrants), salads (including cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, lettuces), melons, squashes, courgettes & pumpkins along with greens like kale, broccoli, leeks and cavalo de nero.

Head gardener Mark with head chef Josh examining some produce grown in the kitchen garden

Head gardener Mark and his team produce a wide variety of produce for the kitchen as well as cut flowers for the Hall. Every evening one of the chefs can be seen heading down to the glasshouse to get produce for that night's dinner.