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The PigPen - a gathering space offering a unique experience in the heart of South Somerset orchard country! Spend a magical evening feasting on hearty home cooked food and whiling away the time sitting and warming by open fires.

Friday Feasts at The PigPen

We don't share the space with the pigs any more, but this was where our lovely tamworths lived for a while.

Now, we have Friday Feasts with fires, music and delicious

home-made supper.
Doors open at 6.30 pm
food served from 7.00pm
(Most dietary requirements can be catered for if ordered in advance)

Book your place by emailing Kath -

kath@thepigpen.net

All glasses, crockery and cutlery are provided,
even fires and blankets to keep you warm on chilly nights.

The PigPen has always strived towards being eco friendly. We aim
to avoid the use of single-use plastic. Bring your own drink in tins and glass bottles - and take them home empty to pop in your recycling!

We are always looking to improve the quality of the PigPen experience, and already aim to source most ingredients locally.

From September 2021 we increased the use of locally sourced and organic ingredients. Warm home-made bread made with Stoates organic flour from Cann Mills near Shaftesbury can be slathered with organic butter on arrival.

We have been successful in finding locally produced woodland reared pork from Dinnington estate farm, ruby red beef from Nick Wakely at Compton Durville and lamb, reared on the family farm in Dorset.

We are keen vegetable growers and supply the Pigpen Feasts with our very own home grown veg wherever possible.

Our charcoal towers will keep you warm outside, and we are now using 'restaurant quality' charcoal sustainably produced by
The Dorset Charcoal Company,
from woodland in Dorset - look out for the info brochure!

Bring your own instrument along if you fancy a bit of music later in the evening!

The PigPen is looking forward to welcoming you soon

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Friday Feast dates

The Pigpen is having a rest

until 2024

Watch this space!

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Your hosts

Hello and a very warm welcome to The PigPen from Kath and Trev. Way back in 2010 we celebrated a big 100th joint birthday in the orchard and loved having so many people around us, enjoying the orchard and the atmosphere. Since then we have marked 25 years of Kath's residency at Fair View - our lovely home - and hosted a beautiful family wedding. We love being outdoors in our orchard creating a relaxed space and are delighted to share our 'gathering space' with you.

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"Good food, good company, lovely surroundings -
all soothing for the soul."
"What a lovely, lovely evening"
"I didn't know anything could be so magical"
"We had a fantastic night with delicious food"

"What a magic place you have created - everything was just right"

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"It was like walking into a hug!"

"Thank you for such a magical evening"
"Excellent homemade cakes and wonderful lunch of your own produce - greatly appreciated"

"Fabulous. Thank you"
"Keep doing this wonderful thing of yours, bringing people together in such a brilliant way"

The PigPen marquees

Our fantastic marquees provide two wonderful magical spaces, completely protected from all the elements the weather might throw at us. Made with rescued roof sections from old wedding marquees, cut up into various triangular and rectangular bits, whipped together by Barnz from 'Pirates of the Carabina' on his amazing, ancient industrial sewing machine, we have up-cycled two fabulous marquees. A mini 'big top' which is - in Barnz' words - 'bomb-proof' and a round 'fairy tent' on the site of a cider-apple tree! In the round and oblong, we will be using them at Friday Feasts come rain or shine.