A CHEF from Bridport is opening a pop-up restaurant serving hyper-local food. Breathe at Goren will open under the creative direction of Gideon Hitchin, a Bridport-born chef who has worked in a range of restaurants including as head chef in a hotel in Italy. Mr Hitchin sold his popular Axminster restaurant The Giant Club in September 2020 and has now taken on a new challenge by launching a pop-up restaurant at Goren Farm near Stockland in east Devon. Diners will be seated in a converted tractor shed with views over Goren Farm wildflower meadows where they will enjoy a six course menu of dishes all made with ingredients sourced from the local area, as well as drinks from local companies.
Craig Dunton, right, with harvested wildflower seed
- Credit: Robbie Phillips
Two new community groups for East Devon and the Blackdown Hills aim to support landowners and gardeners keen to restore or create wildflower meadows.
The local More Meadows groups are based on the successful Moor Meadows Dartmoor community, which since its founding in 2015 has grown to include more than 800 meadow-makers, managing more than 1,000 acres of wildflower meadow to benefit wild plants and wildlife on Dartmoor and beyond.
Thanks to funding from Devon Environment Foundation, the More Meadows concept is an attempt to replicate the original Moor Meadows group’s success by supporting new networks of meadow-makers across Devon.