FARM TO TABLE
THE FARM KITCHEN
Picked fresh from a verdant garden, our crisp, home-grown, organic vegetables are the foundation of each delicious meal that we serve from our on-site Farm Kitchen.
Our farm-to-table menu is revised weekly to celebrate rain-kissed growth spurts and seasonal variation. At lunch we offer a special "dish of the day" with both plant-based and ominivorous options, and in the evening, there's a choice of hearty farm-fare to enjoy with a glass of wine by the fire, from a selection of our favourite recipes.
The style is Afro-Italo-bush-fusion, lovingly conceived by Oria Douglas-Hamilton, the sanctuary's matriarch and chief imagineer, along with our exquisitely trained chefs. With the ultimate proof in the pudding, you'll soon taste why our food is famously good!
The Kitchen and option of lunch in the garden at Olerai House is open for all Sanctuary guests from noon, but is restricted to Olerai House residents only in the late afternoon and evening. Lunch is served in the garden between 12:30 and 14:30, with tea available from 16:00 to 17:00, and dinner from 18:00 to 21:00. All meals (except breakfast) must be pre-booked and paid for at least 24 hours in advance. Guests in the self-catering houses can enjoy their complimentary breakfast hamper or order hot dishes from the Farm Kitchen menu, with meals delivered to the door so you can savour the delicious flavours!
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PICK YOUR VEG
Our vegetables are grown on the Sanctuary in two large organic gardens that are our pride and joy, so we encourage you to come smell the fresh herbs, pick oranges to make marmalade, crunch a carrot fresh out of the ground, or meet our ducks and friendly red hens. We grow all sorts of tasty fruits and vegetables - from artichokes, tomatoes, courgettes and fennel, to beetroot, strawberries, cabbage and citrus. From the orchard you can harvest wildberries, mulberries, blackberries & tamarillas.
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No chemicals are used in our gardens, whatsoever. Just lots of good old-fashioned homemade compost that harnesses the brawn of copious hippo dung, chicken droppings, fallen leaves or branches and green manure. We love living off the land like our ancestors, make every effort to be sustainable and celebrate the power of plants. Please do also pop into the workshop, where our craftsmen turn fallen branches and trees into furniture or responsible charcoal. There's always something exciting to see.
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