2010 & 2011 Wight in
Bloom "Best Large garden cafe/restaurant/pub or business.
Located on the Isle
of Wight, the gardens at The Apple Farm, Afton Park incorporate
a popular farm shop, cafe, plant nursery, wildflower meadow and apple
orchard.
Our Apple Farm Shop offers
fresh meat from Afton Parks farm located at Bathingbourne on the East
side of the Island. See our farm www.rarebreeds.net
.Also many other Isle of Wight and artisan foods and crafts.
The newly designed and planted
gardens sit in an area of outstanding natural beauty, beneath the chalk
downs close to Freshwater Bay, at the western end of the Isle of Wight.
As well as the gardens a wildflower meadow is being developed
on this beautiful seven acre site.
There are
planted borders, a cottage (which is also the tea garden for
our Apple Tree Cafe), a summer garden, a gravel garden and numerous
other plantings around the site. This allows our plant nursery customers
to see how the plants we sell might be used.
The Orchard
is another aspect of what we do. We have 150 apple trees, mainly
Cox and Bramley, also Discovery, Spartan, James Grieves and Howgate
Wonder which we tend and harvest for juice and chutneys.
Finally the
Apple Tree Cafe, which opens all year round, serves soups, stews, casserol's
etc, made on site from scratch also cream teas and cakes . The cafe
also offer wheat and gluten free dishes and cakes.
Stay in an
eco friendly Yurt amongst the apple trees at The Apple Farm
The apple farm, afton park, has a cafe, and yurt
holidays thats eco yurts, on the isle of wight. Relax in our cafe at
Freshwater in the cafe or the farm shop or a yurt
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by M.L.Heathcote logo design by www.carolinedavis.co.uk
