Allium at Askham Hall

The cycle of life in the gardens and fields at Askham Hall dictates the menus, working with the seasons, as they grow, source and preserve the produce from the gardens and surrounding farms and woodland. In the autumn they harvest the plentiful fruits including apples, medlars and plums. Also enjoying the game such as Red and Roe deer from their woods and moors as well as rabbit, partridge, grouse and pigeon....and of course, all of those wonderful mushrooms. In winter, whether pickled, dried, salted or left to rest in the ground - preserving techniques all add a rich variety in flavour to the same ingredients. In spring the first buds of wild garlic appear, all growing along the River Lowther, and from thereon come all the glories of the growing season.