Grow The Seasons
Grow The Seasons
Will Devlin - The Small Holding
This workshop is a taster session of the new Grow the Seasons courses at The Small Holding, and offers a fantastic insight into growing, foraging, cooking, and preserving at a Michelin Green Star restaurant. This behind-the-scenes experience will show you what it’s like to spend a day on the farm, understanding where our food comes from and how it gets onto our plates. Fundamentally, it’s about joining up the increasingly fragmented relationship between farmers, chefs, and consumers.
The session will share growing knowledge, from gardening regeneratively, sustainably, and in tune with nature, no dig philosophy, and soil health, as well as the practical aspects of mulching, seed sowing, harvesting, and preserving. You will come away from the session inspired to grow your own food.
Will Devlin is chef-owner of the Acre Group, a family of restaurants in Kent and Sussex, including The Small Holding and Birchwood. The Small Holding was one of the first seven restaurants in the UK to be awarded a Michelin Green Star for sustainable gastronomy and has retained it each year. The 36-cover restaurant is set in one acre of land, permitting a unique connection between farm and table, growing vegetables, soft fruit, and herbs for the restaurant as well as being home to pigs, chickens, ducks, and bees. Will’s second restaurant, Birchwood, is five miles from The Small Holding and is situated in 46 acres of sustainable woodland; alongside breakfast and lunch, Birchwood offers creative and wellness workshops, terrace dining, and supper clubs.
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