With dedicated interest in promoting fresh, local flavor and as part of a continued effort to help sustain local agriculture, the Yardley Inn Restaurant & Bar is proud to announce its brand new Riverside Garden. The new garden plot is home to a wide variety of vegetables and herbs for immediate use from garden to table in all of the inn’s seasonal menus. The Riverside Garden is a running dream tha
t has finally come to life for the Yardley Inn and especially for Executive Chef Eben Copple. Chef Eben is impassioned about preservation of area agriculture and using only fresh and natural products in his cuisine. Most importantly, our chef wants to ensure guests of the Yardley Inn receive only the highest quality produce and freshest, tastiest ingredients in every meal. This year’s Riverside Garden at the Yardley Inn is home to a wide variety of vegetables and herbs, including peas, peppers, tomatoes, thyme, squash, eggplant, cucumbers, fava beans, cranberry beans, scallions, beets, radishes, turnips, carrots, arugula, frisee, kale, chard, mustard greens, trevisio, brussel sprouts, melons, gooseberries, rhubarb, cress, mache, every herb imaginable. Guests can expect to taste fresh, homegrown flavors from the Yardley Inn’s very own Riverside Garden already, mingled with other local flavors from area farms and beef and poultry producers. A river-fed sprinkler system brings fresh water to the garden daily while the 20 white oak garden boxes offer diversity beyond a gardener’s wildest dreams. Each garden box provides a fresh canvas for any kind of vegetable or herb, allowing the perfect soil and compost composition, pH, and specialized care. A blend of peat moss, compost, and perlite fill the garden boxes, preparing them for the best possible crop this year. E. Carson Meeder Fine Landscaping in Newtown brought the Yardley Inn’s dream to fruition, constructing the boxes and preparing the plot of land for its new and exciting purpose. The landscapers constructed each box using two-inch rough sawn white oak and then arranged the planter boxes for ease of planting, cultivating, and harvesting, all the while creating an aesthetic garden setting for the Yardley Inn and its guests.
