We’ve often talked about how proud we are to source as locally as we do - that we get our cheese from two miles away, most of our fruit and vegetables from three miles away, and meat and fish within 10 miles. But imagine if we could do better? Imagine if rather than saying we get our food within miles, we get it within metres. Imagine if you all played a role in growing and supplying our restaurant?

So, to that end we’ve launched Spare Bed, a pioneering neighbourhood farming project. It will, we hope, involve more of you in our restaurant and with the joys that come from growing and, most importantly, eating good food.

So, how will it work? Well, in short - if you have a spare bed in your garden, a spare planter, or room on the patio for a pot or two, then you’re halfway there. We will then come along and use that space to grow for our restaurant and bar. It might be colourful stems of chard, it might be ruby red or candy-striped beetroot, it might be pots of fragrant mint. We’ll organise the seeds and help out with the watering and pruning too. In return, you’ll not only sleep easy knowing you’re helping your favourite neighbourhood restaurant, but you will also join our Spare Bed club. We’ll give you a card with which to get a free pint or glass of wine at our bar every month, we’ll share content from Mark, our grower at The Clays in Warborough, about how best to look after your plants, and then we’ll invite you all to a special Christmas dinner in December too - on us.

The project is, we think, a rather unique one and it will, we hope, help us achieve our goals of being as local and sustainable as possible, help you utilise more of the space and potential of your garden, and, by growing and pollinating, help the environment of our beautiful town too.

If you’re keen to find out more and get involved, drop us a message below. Tell us a little more about the space you’ve got going spare (the more detail the better, think orientation and condition), and we’ll be in touch.

Together we can create something rather special. A community restaurant and a community farm, all in one.