About

We were originally small farmers and first became interested in herbs when a friend fresh from horticultural college came to stay with us. At the time we grew several varieties of potatoes and sold these primarily on a roadside stall, along with locally produced soft fruit, logs, Christmas trees and eggs and our friend began to grow a few herbs to sell there too.

A year later she moved away to get a ‘proper’ job, but we had become hooked on herbs by then and continued growing them, gradually expanding the range, selling at local fetes and markets. It was quite a steep learning curve but that was over twenty years ago and now we grow over two hundred and fifty varieties, including cut and come again salads, medicinal, aromatic and culinary herbs.

We attend over one hundred shows a year around the country where we enjoy meeting and chatting with customers and also send out a regular supply of herbs via our on line shop. Even so our nursery is still fairly small and run with the help of a small team of enthusiastic people. We cherish the wildlife we have here. There are toads, frogs and newts living underneath the trays in the tunnels (and slugs too unfortunately) and always plenty of bees, hoverflies, dragonflies and butterflies all attracted by the flowering plants. 

We are very lucky at Herbal Haven to have a small solid core of locals who have worked on the nursery for several years. During school holidays it has meant there are often children here to compliment the dogs – keeping us all young at heart and on our toes. Each season we also have people join us to help on the nursery and travel to shows with the herbs.

Sometimes we have the same people return for several seasons, after travelling during the winter, other times we have brand new staff each season. It usually makes for a small friendly team who wander over the fields to the pub of an evening or organise the odd barbecue or two.