The Nutrition Garden

About The Nutrition Garden

The garden has been created by a Registered Nutritionist and nutrition scientist with a lifelong passion for edible plants, from growing, cooking, preserving, processing, and researching what happens to our bodies when we eat them. Consequently, the garden was designed to produce and display a wide variety of edible plants, including fruits, vegetables, herbs, and plants for infusions. There are trees, shrubs, tubers, perennials and annual plants. The half acre garden has distinct areas for fruit and vegetable production plus ornamental displays of edible plants. There are a range of different growing conditions, such as a deep border in full sun with sandy soil to damp beds and boggy areas around a formal pond, which allow a wide variety of edible plants to be grown in close proximity.

Over 100 types of edible plants (e.g., potatoes and tomatoes) and over 200 varieties (e.g., red and blue potatoes; red and yellow tomatoes) are grown in the garden throughout the year. These include unusual food plants (e.g mashua, oca and yacon), ornamental plants not normally grown for food (e.g., dahlias grown for the flavour of their edible tubers), heritage varieties (e.g., Broad Ripple Yellow Currant tomatoes) and unusual coloured varieties (e.g., purple mangetout, yellow raspberries, white strawberries) rare to find in supermarkets.
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Tea, coffee, light refreshments and infusions from plants growing in the garden also available.