Padstow KitchenGarden

Ross Geach is the seventh generation of his family on Trerethern Farm, and spent more than a decade in Rick Stein's kitchens — rising to head chef of Stein's Café — before coming home in 2007 to grow instead of cook to order. Seven acres of spray-free vegetables, salad leaves, edible flowers and polytunnels now supply the Stein restaurants, Prawn on the Lawn, the St Kew Inn and others, hand-delivered by Geach most mornings, with pedigree Cornish Large Black pigs bringing up the rear. There is no farm shop and no veg box; the public way in is the pre-booked calendar — long-table, fire-cooked feasts every six weeks or so, which sell out, kitchen-garden workshops, and three shepherd's huts above Little Petherick Creek for staying the night.