Gourmet Garden Trails
Highlights
- Visit Kent, the 'Wine Garden of England', and immerse yourself in a wide range of vineyards, often family-run establishments, for tutored wine tastings, tours and experiences including the world's first winery helter skelter slide!
- Discover foods fresh from the Kent coastline including oysters.
- Lunch in the traditional pub and smokehouse, Freemasons, in Knutsford
- Visit Leeds Castle, set in 500 acres of beautiful parkland and gardens with a maze and grotto, falconry displays and punting along the moat
- Experiment with flavour profiling at a Kent gin distillery
- Follow the Edible Woodland Trail at Dorothy Clive Gardens, in Cheshire - consisting of more than 120 edible plants
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner in a Waffle House in the cathedral city of St Albans, serving unique dishes such as chilli con carne waffle followed by a banana flapjack!
- Guided tour at Britain's oldest brewer, Shepherd Neame - walk among the oak barrels, large operating machinery and breathe in the aromas of hops and brewing!
- Foraging on the beach for silky seaweed and wild edible plants which you will use later to prepare something delightful to eat
- Wander through rose gardens, woodland trails and walled gardens in stunning places such as Penshurst Place and the Riverhill Himalayan Gardens
- Lunch in a gastropub - typical English roast dinner with all the trimmings
- Visit Knebworth House, a stately home, used for filming 'The King's Speech' and 'Midsomer Murders', with a parkland that hosts red and silka deer
- Traditional afternoon tea including scones with cream and homemade jam in an English Tearoom
- Dinner in a Michelin starred restaurant
- Visit former monasteries Combermere Abbey and Norton Priory Museum and Gardens, both dating back to the 12th century, where you can enjoy time exploring walled gardens, wildflower meadows and a fruit maze
- The Beth Chatto Gardens - five gardens to enjoy including the well-known Water Garden. Beth Chatto OBE is renowned for transforming a once overgrown wasteland into what we see today
- Quaint villages with antiques and old-style book shops such as the village of Dedham in Essex
- Visit the first Champagne house to produce premium English sparkling wine
- Fruit picking experience on a traditional fruit farm, or try some local produce straight from the farm shop

Photo credits:
Slideshow: Lussmanns, Harpenden; Green Island Gardens; Old Dairy Brewery.
Photos to the right of the tour: gin class © Puddingstone Distillery; people working in a vineyard.