Grow your own

Thinking about growing your own food? We’ve got some top tips to help your produce flourish and great advice on how to get the best from your freshly grown ingredients

Gardener harvesting a Turkish Turban squash in the Kitchen Garden at Ham House
A volunteer gardener with cabbages gathered from the kitchen garden at Llanerchaeron, near Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales

Green gardening 

Have you decided that going green is the right thing to do, but you're not really sure how to go about it? Feel guilty you're not doing more to help the environment? Well help is at hand with our series of 'how to' greener gardening videos.

Give it a go

What's in season: autumn

Blackberries on a table

What's in season: September 

As summer turns to autumn, make the most of the seasonal fruit and make your own jam. Keep picking your beans, and when the foliage dies, it's time to unearth the onions.

The pumpkin patch at Packwood

What's in season: October 

As the nights get longer and the days get colder, warming soups and pies are on the menu. Use up leftover pumpkin to make a warm and hearty soup, banishing those autumn blues.

Wheat and grains of flour on a hessian sack

Why we champion sustainable food 

We’re playing our part to shift towards more sustainable, local sourced food. This will help support the environment, local economies and wildlife.

Sustainable food
A member of the garden team hard at work

Gardener's tips 

Looking after more than 200 gardens has taught us a thing or two, so here our gardeners share some of their tips for a blooming beautiful garden.

Read our top tips
Chocolate hazelnut torte cake

Recipes round-up 

We love food and we've got some great recipes to prove it. Take a look through all of our recipes for some culinary inspiration.

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If you're a foodie that loves to cook, you'll find some great recipe ideas in our cookbooks.

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