Upcoming Experiences
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Upcoming Experiences ★
Our experiences at Shepherds Close are shaped by the rhythms of the land and the turning of the seasons. We plan around what is growing, what is ready, and what feels right in that moment — learning as we go, adapting each year, and building events that reflect the real English countryside rather than a fixed formula.
From open-fire dinners and seasonal feasts to foraging, cocktails, and slow gatherings, everything is led by land, weather, harvest, and light. Spring brings fresh greens and fire after winter. Summer brings long evenings, outdoor tables, and food at its peak. Autumn is heavy with harvest, colour, and richness. Winter is quiet, fire-lit, and inward.
These are countryside experiences in Kent built around seasonality, craft, food, and shared table. Not scripted events, but living ones — shaped by what the land gives, how the year unfolds, and a growing understanding of how best to celebrate the English countryside and share it well.
Join us around the long table as spring settles in and the garden comes back to life. This wild dinner centres on our home-grown pork, slow-cooked over open flame, served with the first real flavours of the season — tender greens, early herbs, new potatoes, and whatever else the land is ready to give.
Food is cooked outdoors, shared generously, and eaten slowly as the light fades. Let’s celebrate making it through the long winter nights with good company, and good food.
Celebrate the longest day of the year with a feast built around fire, land, and summer at its peak. As the sun lingers in the sky, we’ll gather around the long table for a wild dinner cooked over open flame, using home-grown pork and the best of the season’s produce.
Expect bold flavours, zingy cocktails, fresh herbs, ripe vegetables, and food designed for sharing. We’ll eat slowly as the light stretches into evening — a summer solstice dinner shaped by fire, abundance, and the rhythm of the land.
Gather around for a twilight workshop of hedgerow cocktails shaped by the land and the season. This workshop is built around wild and garden ingredients — hawthorn, rosehip, sloe, apple, herbs, and whatever the land is offering — combined with open-fire techniques.
You’ll learn how to use fire to build flavour: smoking glasses, flamed citrus, toasted spices, and warm infusions. Drinks are made slowly, shared generously, and shaped by place.
It’s about foraging wild ingredients, and raising a glass to what grows around you.
Mark the turn toward autumn with a harvest dinner shaped by abundance. By late summer, the garden is heavy with fruit, vegetables, and herbs, and the fire becomes the heart of the evening.
This wild dinner is built around rich, seasonal food cooked over open flame — slow vegetables, ripe tomatoes, squash, greens, and whatever the land is giving in full. Expect deep flavours, generous plates, and long conversations as the light softens.
It’s a celebration of fullness — of land, of season, of shared table — before everything begins to slow again.
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Treat yourself to a smallholding breakfast. Homegrown sausages, bacon and eggs, tomatoes from the garden, freshly baked sourdough and a pot of our homemade jam.
Gather round, watch the sunset and the stars light up the sky. Whether you want to settle in down by the ponds or encircled in pine trees, we will set you up with logs, a fire bowl, and a s’mores making kit wherever you’d like.
There is nothing better on a summers evening than firing up the pizza oven and enjoying homemade pizza outside. We provide sourdough pizza base, all the equipment, pizza sauce we’ve made from our tomatoes, and wood for the oven.
