Fresh from a garden near you
Garden Gate connects you with back-garden growers, allotment holders and local farmers across the UK. Order what is ready this week and collect it from a shop you already walk past.
Ready this week
Featured near you
A snapshot of what neighbours are picking, cutting and lifting right now.
Sun-ripened vine tomatoes
Rowan & Mabel Hartley
£2.80
per 500g
0.6 miles
Collect from The Corner Pantry, 14 Alcester Road
Cottage garden hand-tied bouquet
Wren Lane Flowers
£14.00
per bunch
1.2 miles
Collect from Wren Lane Post Office, 3 Wren Lane
Freshly dug potatoes & carrots
Plot 42, Hillfield Allotments
£4.50
per 2kg box
2.4 miles
Collect from Hillfield Hardware, 88 Hillfield Road
Cut-and-come-again salad & courgettes
Priya Nandra
£3.20
per bag
0.9 miles
Collect from Greenway Newsagents, 2 Greenway Parade
How it works
Discover, order and collect
Discover
Pop in your postcode and see what is ready within walking or cycling distance.
Order
Reserve what you want and pick a collection slot that suits your week.
Collect
Your grower drops it at a trusted local shop and you pick it up at your leisure.
Collect from a shop you already trust
Nobody wants strangers at the front door. Every order is dropped at a nearby corner shop, post office or farm shop that has agreed to hold it for you — usually open early, late and at weekends.
More about collectionRecipe inspiration
Something to do with a glut
Simple British cooking built around whatever is in season nearby.
Slow-roast tomato & basil soup
The simplest way to use a glut of home-grown tomatoes, roasted until sweet and blitzed with basil.
Rhubarb & ginger crumble
Garden rhubarb, a knob of stem ginger and a thick, buttery oat topping.
Allotment roots traybake
New potatoes, carrots and herbs roasted hard until sticky at the edges.
Become a seller
Half a dozen courgettes too many? A cutting patch in full flow? List your surplus in minutes, set your own prices and let your neighbours do the rest.