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Two Green Shoots Launch Immersive New Summer Experiences
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Two Green Shoots in Glengarriff, West Cork, a haven in which visitors can ground themselves in nature and escape the everyday, has launched two immersive new summer experiences
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Two Green Shoots Showcase Garden Of Re-Imagination For 2023 Summer Seasoê
Welcome to the garden: Kloë and Adam
Two Green Shoots are re-opening the gates to their beautiful and bountiful Garden of Re-imagination in Glengarriff, Co. Cork for the 2023 Summer season and showcasing their private plant-filled paradise to visitors by offering a range of immersive new Edible Experiences and Escapes.
Edible Experiences:
Throughout June, July, August, and early September, Designer, Forager & Upcycler, Kloë Wood Lyndorff, and her partner, RHS-trained Horticulturalist & Head Gardener, Adam Carveth, AKA Two Green Shoots, invite guests to explore the haven they’ve created at the foot of the beautiful Beara Peninsula.
A carefully curated approach over the last six years has ensured that every flower and shrub the pair have painstakingly planted has an edible function. As a result, their 2.5 acre Garden of Re-imagination is now home to over 200 varieties of rare and unusual plants, providing the most magical of settings for guests to discover, dine, and delight in this summer.
Two Green Shoots’ 2023 Summer Edible Experiences include a new Guided Foraging Trail & Fireside Lunch Feast, a Breakfast Tour, an Afternoon Tea Tour, and a feast for all the senses - an immersive Garden Tour & Three Course Lunch Feast, freshly prepared by Kloë and Adam using seasonal botanicals from the gardens and surrounding landscape.
Edible Experiences
Guided Foraging Trail & Fireside Lunch Feast (Duration: 2.5 hours)
Available dates: 16th, 23rd, 30th June / 7th, 28th July / 4th, 18th August / 1st September
Taste the wild side of West Cork as you’re taken on a multi-sensory botanical adventure of flavours, aromas, sights, and sounds with Two Green Shoots’ immersive new Foraging & Fireside Lunch Feast. Led by Co-Founder & Forager, Kloë Wood Lyndorff, you’ll begin by being taken through temperate rainforest on an hour-long guided walk of the Garden of Re-imagination’s stunning new 300m long foraging trail. Guests will then gather around a crackling campfire on log seating for a demonstration from Kloë on how to prepare the wild botanicals gathered along the way into a delicious two-course foraged feast, before enjoying an al fresco picnic lunch together.
Dishes on the day will likely include Nettle & Wild Garlic Soup with Bread Rolls freshly baked on the campfire and filled Wood Sorrel, Bramble Tip & Hawthorn Pesto, followed by Nettle & Honeysuckle Muffins topped with Woodland Blooms. A choice of Sparkling Spruce Tip Cooler, or a cleansing brew of Nettle & Water Mint Tea with Local Honey for refreshment will further enhance each diner’s connection with the surrounding landscape.
Two Green Shoots’ two and a half hour-long Guided Foraging Trail & Fireside Lunch Feast Experience takes place on selected Fridays weekly, from 11am to 1.30pm, between 16th June and 1st September 2023. Tickets are priced at €89.75 per person. Places can be booked online at www.twogreenshoots.com.
Garden Tour & Three Course Lunch Feast (Duration: 2.5 hours)
Available dates: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th June / 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th July / 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th August / 2nd September
The Garden Tour & Three Course Lunch Feast experience includes admission to, and an informative in-depth one hour tour of, the Garden of Re-imagination, led by Two Green Shoots’ RHS-trained Horticulturalist & Head Gardener, Adam Carveth. Guests will then take a seat to enjoy a nourishing three-course long table lunch feast, freshly prepared using rare and unusual seasonal botanicals from the gardens and surrounding landscape comprising a starter, hearty main course, pudding and accompanying drinks (one cold, one hot).
To start, you’ll be served Smoked Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese & Nasturtium Potato Cakes topped with Buttered Wild Greens & Ramson Capers, followed by a Fuki Risotto with Caramelised Dahlia, and finish with a refreshing and palate cleansing Apple Mint & Sorrel Sorbet.
Two Green Shoots’ two and a half hour-long Garden Tour & Three Course Lunch Feast Experience takes place on Saturdays weekly, from 11am to 1.30pm, between 3rd June and 2nd September 2023. Tickets are priced at €89.75 per person, with a minimum of x4 persons required per booking. Places can be booked online at www.twogreenshoots.com.
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Breakfast Tour (Duration: 1.5 hours)
Available dates: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th June / 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th July / 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th August / 2nd September
What better way to begin your day than with a mini 30 minute-long tour of Two Green Shoots’ Garden of Re-imagination led by RHS trained Horticulturalist & Head Gardener, Adam Carveth.
Guests will then be served an al fresco Kitchen Garden Cooked Breakfast and a hot or cold drink celebrating the very best of fresh flavours, hand-picked less than half an hour before you eat and served under the comfort of a canopy as you sit back and take in the serene surroundings.
Breakfast consists of your choice of Eggs from the garden’s own roaming free range hens served with a Mini Homemade Sourdough Loaf still crackling from the oven, Tomato Hummus, and a Salad of Freshly Picked Leaves and Edible Flowers with a Herbal Vinaigrette Dressing.
Special dietary requirements can be accommodated as long as tickets are booked more than 24 hours in advance.
Two Green Shoots’ one and a half hour-long Breakfast Tour Experience is available on Saturdays weekly, from 9am to 10.30am between 3rd June and 2nd September 2023. Tickets are priced at €42.50 per person, with a minimum of x 4 persons required per booking. Places can be booked online at www.twogreenshoots.com.
Afternoon Tour & Tea (Duration: 1 hour)
Available dates: 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th June / 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th July / 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th August / 2nd September
As part of the Afternoon Tour & Tea experience, visitors will spend half an hour exploring rare botanicals from bubblegum berries to Dahlia yams, and giant celery with a mini tour of the Garden of Re-imagination led by RHS-trained Horticulturalist & Head Gardener, Adam Carveth. Then, picture the scene as you sit down in the serenity of Two Green Shoots’ beautiful canopy covered outdoor dining space to enjoy afternoon tea and a generous slice of freshly baked homemade cake - think Japanese Quince & Sweet Cicely Drizzle Cake, topped with Calendula and Fuchsia petals washed down with a Linden & Whitethorn Blossom Tea - showcasing freshly picked ingredients from that day’s harvest.
Two Green Shoots’ hour-long Afternoon Tour & Tea Experience is available on Saturdays weekly, from 4pm to 5pm, between 3rd June and 2nd September 2023. Tickets are priced at €24.75 per person. Places can be booked online at www.twogreenshoots.com.
Attendees of all of the Edible Experiences can avail of a discount on their admission price as part of Two Green Shoots’ Ocean Plastics Project, in partnership with Clean Coasts, by simply collecting a beach clean kit from Two Green Shoots in Glengarriff and returning it filled for a 10% refund on their ticket.
Those that don’t have time to beach clean themselves needn’t worry - 10% of all ticket sales generated by the various different Experiences will go towards funding a creative arts programme, working with a local artist to transform the ocean waste gathered by others into a piece of functional art for display in Two Green Shoots’ showcase gardens.
This year's exhilarating new experiences see Two Green Shoots beginning to move beyond the garden, giving visitors the opportunity to connect with the wider landscape and taste flavours of the wild as well as learning bushcraft skills and natural navigation techniques. Founders, Kloë and Adam, plan to expand on these in the months and years ahead with lots of exciting plans in the pipeline..jpg)
The Botanical Tent
Private Paradise Escapes:
The highly creative couple are also giving guests the chance to make their haven your home this summer, offering luxurious Edible Escapes at their boujee botanically-themed B&B and a Botanical Bell Tent private glamping experience. Nestled in the unique edible paradise amongst delicious planting and stunning scenery, both gourmet getaway options include hearty signature morning feasts to start your day, with every morsel served homegrown and/or handmade.
The Botanical B&B
The Botanical B&B sits inside Two Green Shoots’ edible paradise, The Garden of Re-imagination, looking out towards Bantry Bay, with four beautiful botanically-themed rooms to choose from - Fern (Double), Willow (Double/Twin), Lichen (Single) and Silver Birch (Single) - each handcrafted with its own unique character.
Guests savouring summer escapes here will have access to their own private entrance, a dining room, living room complete with tea making facilities, fridge and microwave, a wood burning stove with wood supplied, and use of the surrounding garden for the duration of their stay. And, to make your signature stay even more memorable, you’ll start each day with a morning feast showcasing freshly harvested botanicals from the surrounding gardens and landscape.
The Botanical B&B sleeps four to six people for stays of between three and ten nights priced at €328.00 per night including breakfast and can be booked online via Two Green Shoots’ listing on www.airbnb.ie.
The Botanical Bell Tent Private Glamping Experience
What could be more idyllic than drifting off to sleep in the luxury of Two Green Shoots’ Botanical Bell Tent with its warming wood burning stove creating a dancing light show inside, and the sounds of the trees rustling overhead?
Sitting in a forest clearing along your own private woodland track, it comes beautifully furnished with a king-size bed, indoor and outdoor seating, feather cushions, wool blankets, cosy coir flooring, and decorated with handcrafted bunting and solar lights twinkling in the surrounding forest. Glamping guests also get their own private bathroom with a walk-in shower, an outside fire pit complete with wood, a welcome hamper of homemade and local treats, and awake to a freshly prepared signature feast each morning of their stay. Everything and more you could want from a summer escape and an experience like no other!
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