How many climbing centres do you know with a garden? Established in 2009, our garden has been lovingly created and maintained by a fantastic group of volunteers following sustainable permaculture principles.
What we grow.
Built on sustainable permaculture principles, the multi award-winning garden has gone from strength to strength in the last decade and more, and is now responsible for growing produce for the café, including a huge variety of fresh fruits, delicious vegetables and vibrant, unusual salads – much tastier than bland supermarket varieties! – not to mention harvesting and blending a unique range of herbal teas. Loads of flavour, zero food miles and absolutely no carbon emissions.
It’s a haven for local wildlife, with colourful butterflies and bees collecting pollen, mud-coated toads lurking under logs, industrious insects buzzing away, nesting birds singing in the trees, and even a fox den where a mother returns every single year to raise her cubs. The Garden is loved by climbers too, whether it’s warming up before a climb, relaxing outdoors afterwards or devouring the delicious food served in the café.
