News from Athelhampton House & Gardens.

Harvest time at Athelhampton. In the historic kitchen garden, the beds are still brimming with life, beets, celeriac, kale, turnips, chard, leeks, carrots, and a large crop of pumpkins, all destined for our kitchen for the restaurant and Sunday carvery. A variety of Pumpkins and Squash being harvest from the Kitchen Garden The Tudor Martyn family of Athelhampton would have been very familiar with the season, though some of these vegetables might have been more familiar to the

Crates upon crates of delicious homegrown Apples It’s apple harvest time at Athelhampton! We expect to gather at least 3 tonnes of apples this season, from the apple trees spread around our historic gardens. These will all be pressed by Bessie, our trusty hydraulic press. The gardening team hand picking Apples ready for juicing Once pressed the juice will be pasteurised, bottled on site, and served in our restaurant next year — truly orchard to table.

Dodging showers while walking down to the greenhouse at Athelhampton this morning, we found it bursting with colour! Rows of ripening tomatoes are thriving under the glass, cared for daily by our gardening team. 160 Tomato plants lining the Greenhouse in the Kitchen Garden From tiny sweet cherry tomatoes to large, juicy heritage varieties, there’s nothing quite like the sight (and taste!) of a bumper crop grown with patience and care. And you'll have the chance to try them, t