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kitchen garden
noun
: a garden in which plants (such as vegetables or herbs) for use in the kitchen are cultivated
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Dishes are seasonal and inventive, with ingredients either straight from their kitchen garden or from other parts of this bountiful state: expect seared tuna from Port Lincoln with chili and mandarin oil, and risotto with asparagus as green as those vineyards.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2024
Likewise, the food continues to evolve, with an ever-growing variety of fresh ingredients coming from the hotel’s organic kitchen garden and creative input from its new international partners.
—Ann Abel, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
There are orchards, greenhouses, kitchen gardens, fields planted with row crops, apiaries that produce more than 2,000 pounds of honey annually, and cut-flower gardens for good measure.
—Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2024
Ingredients are grown in the restaurant’s kitchen garden or sourced from across the East Neuk.
—Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of kitchen garden was
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“Kitchen garden.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kitchen%20garden. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
kitchen garden
noun
: a piece of land where vegetables are grown for household use
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