Blackthorn Garden and Cafe

The most wonderful therapeutic garden, a true haven on the outskirts of Maidstone (Barming, St Andrew's Road) its cafe now transformed with more outdoor spaces with Deli counter offering heavenly cakes, snacks and light lunches. Prepared by co-workers and those facing long term challenges, the gardens are biodynamic/organic, the produce positively bursting with life forces!
This is an oasis of calm and recuperation in a hectic world. Try it out! ME16 9AN.

Lovely, homely, full of interesting people busy in biodynamic / organic gardens, glass workshop, cafe, greenhouse. Worth visiting!

One of my favourite places for a comfortable lunch, tea and cake, or whatever. No longer solely a veggie menue, often home cooked meat dishes and always fresh and interesting salads. Large, refurbished second-hand shop and super range of home grown plant specimens and bedding for sale in the two greenhouses - cold and heated. Loads of outdoor seating in the gardens as well. You may fall in love with the place!

Beautiful little cafe with a lovely atmosphere, food is amazing. All volunteers work so hard to cook, prepare and serve the food. Gorgeous gardens surround the cafe, you can buy plants grown on site and a charity shop on site also. Elderly relatives love spending time here.

Really nice cafe with a great range of lunch choices. Very quiet and tucked away. Good prices. Bit disappointed with the cake selection

Excellent facilities for people of all ages and abilities., workshops /courses forefilling and enjoyable., brings out the creative nature within ones self, brilliant tuition- tutors kind and helpful and allows students to work at own pace.

Cafe and Carity shop good price excellent products... God bless the peoples hands that made my experience there pleasant and enjoyable. Pay them a visit you would not regret your experience.

Love this place , garden are beautiful and the cafe is lovely.

I love this place. the garden is so relaxing to sit in and watch world go by and they do alot of great work helping those with disabilities to not be isolated.

The cafe is nice also. perhaps a little expensive, but as it is all made on site on the day so very fresh have to expect this.

There cakes and other goodies are often baked by the patrons who take part in the baking classes they offer.

They have helped me immensley with my own isolation.