Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have a vegetable garden at their new home, Frogmore Cottage, and the couple are reportedly enjoying a “farm-to-table” food tradition that goes back to Meghan’s childhood, The Daily Mail reports.
The Windsor family employ some of the best chefs in the world, and have access to the finest — and freshest — ingredients that Europe has to offer. But Harry and Meghan apparently prefer to get down & dirty, having installed a fruit, vegetable, and herb garden at their new digs. It’s not just a hobby; the pair plan to eat what they grow.
The “farm-to-table” approach to food, as it’s being called these days, is something of a new trend. More accurately, it may be construed as an old way of life that is becoming fashionable again. But it’s not a matter of trendiness for Meghan — the former Suits actress says that she and her family have been growing and eating their own food since she was a little girl back in L.A.
Back in 2013, long before she was on the path to becoming a member of British royalty, she told Marie Claire that she learned the value of being closer to your food from an early age.
“ I love to cook… I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there’s some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.”
These days, Meghan still loves to cook and considers herself a “foodie.” At one time, she even wrote a food and lifestyle blog — before she deleted her internet presence when she married Harry, that is.
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Meghan isn’t the only Windsor to have a green thumb. Her father-in-law, Prince Charles, apparently loves gardening to the point of having a 15-acre vegetable plot at one of his properties, Highmore. According to Vogue , Charles even has his own organic food brand, Duchy Originals, which sells carrots, chutneys, smoked salmon, and everything in between. The most popular product from the brand is a type of oat biscuit, one made with oats grown right in Charles’ garden.
Even Queen Elizabeth herself is known to have a fondness for the soil and its bounty. As The Telegraph reported in 2017, the queen was inspired by the beauty of flowers when she attended a garden show, and in response, directed her groundskeepers to update the gardens at Frogmore Cottage. A palace gardener told the newspaper that he was impressed by the queen’s extensive knowledge of various plants and flowers.
