Badgers Hill Farm Tea Room in Ashford

Went to howletts.. This is up the road from there.. Lots to see.

Always enjoy walking around, a lot of modifications taking place as we speak (Sept 2024) so the garden center will certainly be more than double in size soon. Food is worth a try, we enjoy it every time we come

Lovely places to visit,amazing selection of plants at reasonable prices. Staff lovely. Had breakfast there , it wasn't particularly busy, lots of staff but still waited over half an hour for it. It was ok.

Had an excellent breakfast and coffee here this week with friends. Great service and food. Super garden centre to wander around. Always lovely to see the animals as well.

I had the best ploughman's for lunch...I'm really fussy and this was perfect couldn't complain about none of it...lovely place kids love it....and nice cider too

Food is amazing. Only been twice both times very busy. Ham is home made and lovely. Service is quick even when they are busy and despite being rushed o ff their feet the staff were friendly, very efficient and lovely. The chips are made made from scratch, not frozen, and the best. The hens walking about I loved.

Lovely place to visit, great fresh home made cakes, staff friendly

Always love a visit here, a great place with great staff

A great place to visit if you're buying plants, shrubs and trees for the garden. Knowledgeable, friendly staff and additional facilities including cafe and animal enclosures to interest kids and adults alike.

Food was lovely better than pub grub x

Great food and drinks in the cafe. Lovely farm animals but disappointed that the Maras and Rheas have gone The kids had a great time in the new play park and we all had a good time

A great garden centre with cafe on site serving fabulous food. We enjoyed breakfast when we visited. A variety of animals on site that can be viewed.

Delightful place, great food and coffee. Staff always excellent.

Garden centre with farmyard animals (Goats, pigs 🐖, donkeys 🫏, Shetland ponies and horses 🐎)

It is a very nice and welcoming place, surrounded by nature. The staff is friendly and very cheerful, the food is good, there is a fair value for money.

Amazing staff so friendly. Atmosphere is great good amount of things to do and cafe prices very reasonable for freshly made goods.

What a super place for families. Chickens free ranging round the plant nursery and outdoor eating areas. Interesting plants and containers for sale. Picnic tables in a mown paddock with adjacent individual picnic huts- to confound the eternal drizzle of this summer- and a super outdoor play area for littlies. Pretty outdoor eating area by cafe as well as snug sofas inside for chillier days or sun avoidance. My Americano had body and flavour to it and was hot but not blisteringly so. My husband's standard hot chocolate was perfect too. We were early in the day and the staff were friendly and pleasant. What a gem of a place!

Fantastic little place lovely food nice garden centre to walk round and a great cuppa loved the chickens wondering around.

Very nice scones and a good cup of tea, it was wet so the indoor section of the cafe was very busy and chaotic. The car parking is ok but quite bumpy.

Wonderful place, animals to pet,play park, great food locally sourced. The garden is the best independent that I have been to. Great quality plants well looked after. Website doesn't do it justice, photos need updating. All staff very friendly and experts in thier field.

I haven't been here for ages but I am so glad I did! The food and drinks were amazing. Very friendly and helpful staff.

On a perfect sunny day this place has lots to offer. You can freely look around the farm at the animals. There is a very well maintained children's play area. The choice of plants are of good variety. I visited for the first time today just intending to have a breakfast but ended up browsing around the whole area. Anyway the breakfast was very nice and all the staff were very friendly. I had my breakfast outside knowing the chickens were roaming freely. I adore nature and this is a very nice setting. It truly deserves a 5 star rating. Thank you to all the staff for the friendly and well manored service. 👍

Good food and good range of plants

First time here for breakfast. Loved it, wholesome food, and delicious 😋

A great family place to visit. Thanks Jo

Tin toilets need some attention. Ladies has 2 ,one was blocked ..no soap or paper . Needs to be better,as an eating establishment and more hygienic for all concerned 😟

Lovely clean cafe with friendly service. We had the 3 cheese ploughman's which was huge!

Excellent place for Children and adults.. garden centre is very reasonably priced.

Great place lovely food. Carpark needs some attention and maybe the should be closed gate between play area and carpark. The kids had a great time for 4hrs

Had a great breakfast on the verandah with the chickens which was great. Fantastic service from the Asst. Manager on the tills to the ladies serving. The garden centre was good also, huge selection of plants at good prices compared to the big boys. Keep it local.. Will definitely return.

Lovely little place, it is a little all over the place at the moment but lots under construction, so that is likely why. We ate there. The food was OK, but I think a little overpriced for what seemed to be a pretty generic burger. The chips were good though, I have to say, and the gardens where you ate were nice so I would certainly go back. However if I each again I'll try something different. One thing that was odd was the waiting staff carried the condiments with them, so when I opened the mayonnaise it was like running water, maybe not a good idea on a hot day.

Lovely place we came across when driving to Chilham Castle..well worth a visit.

Lovely food on our most recent visit. Really enjoyable breakfast. Visited over the Bank Holiday, really busy and a bit of a wait but still well worth it.

Great staff great prices great garden centre

Food adequate. First class coffee

Always enjoy having brunch here. Great food, good portion size, quick service and can have a nice walk round the garden centre etc afterwards. Plenty of parking.

Nice place to take kids and have a cappuccino and cake.

A really great treasure trove of a nursery. Masses of plants & coffee shop on site

Crazy busy and a long wait for food, but it's worth the wait. Had jacket potato with Coronation chicken, had a lovely side salad too. Loads of chickens strutting about and a lovely kiddies play area.

This is a cute little garden centre with free roaming chickens! There is a cafe restaurant, which is reasonably priced (and also sells chicken feed) there is a climbing frame play area with swings and slides and you can walk over to visit the other animals as well including sheep, pigs, goats, donkeys and ponies. My daughter and I loved this place and had a fun time looking at the animals and eating cakes in the cafe. Highly recommend for taking little ones out for an hour or so.

Lovely place and staff who are always nice and food has always been good only warning is if been raining the carpark is mud due to no gravel

Excellent restaurant. Staff very friendly. Good food & reasonably priced. Great place take young children see animals & play area.

Went for lunch food was great, nice walk around the animals and garden centre after but the car park is awful lots of potholes and very muddy

Lovely cafe, serves big portions and a great place to take the family.

Can't fault this garden centre, it has everything you could want for a good few hours out. Plants, animals and incredible food (including homemade chips!) not to forget how friendly the staff are and helpful too! Will definitely be returning for lunch again to try the sandwiches which look incredible 🍄🌻

I’ve visited Badgers Hill three times since Easter now after moving to Chartham and have fallen in love with the place! The food is amazing and you can tell it’s all homemade and locally sourced. The only grumble I have is I wish the portion sizes were bigger but that’s only because I’m greedy! Great place to bring your family to.

Great breakfast and delightful staff. Perfect start to the day 👌

Nice people, fairly cheap plants and great food and drink. Highly recommended 👌

Animals were lovely, coffee and cake was lovely! Shame the car park and entrance road are bad!

The new owners have created a magical space with loads of wonderful plants and friendly & knowledgeable staff. Fantastic food and amazing kids playground .

Absolutely amazing afternoon tea for mothers day, everyone loved it. Will definitely be back again. The animals were fab and the garden center was lovely 😍

Badger's Hill is my absolute favourite place to visit. The food in the cafe is delicious, the staff are always polite and friendly, I adore the pigs, chickens, sheep, donkeys and more, and there's a lovely new play structure with lots of space for children to run around and play. The garden centre is very nice too with plants and garden ornaments.

Food was very good. Service was great and all staff polite and friendly. Car park needs attention but it's winter and very wet. Will be back

A lovely little farm and tearoom/ restaurant. It made my day to see the pigs who are extremely affectionate! Staff are very friendly in the restaurant too and the food is very good value.

Please can you sort out the car park …

The car park is terrible. Full of holes and resembling a ploughed field. People are even parking on the grass verge outside the premises, so that will get ruined now. Avoid during wet weather!

A better car park would be better

Food was nice and well priced. Car park is a mess though. More like a quagmire to be honest

It is a lovely place. Good tea room, nice food, great plants but and it's a big but, the car park was horrendous! It's like a 4x4 track, big lumps and mud, lots of mud! My 80 year old dad got his car stuck! In the dry I would be worried about taking the bottom of the car out, in the wet you cant drive. I wont be going back!!

Went for the afternoon tea on Valentine's day, and it was superb. The food was homemade and delicious. The staff were excellent in their attention to us. Would recommend to all.

Lovely walk... if it's been raining then you will need good boots!

Told they did a good breakfast, so took a drive out to ßee for ourselves. We'll worth it - lovely breakfast, clean establishment, friendly staff who clear and clean the tables as soon as they are vacated. Would highly recommend this place. Downside - lots of rain, so car park a little muddy.

Good location but the car park resembles a scene from WW1 trench warfare, it's not their fault but due to the fact that it's unmade the ruts and puddles make it pretty frightening for wheelchair users, or in my case power trolley users! Good team behind the counter, very helpful offering teas and coffee as well as light snacks and breakfasts! Seating inside and out, chickens wander around your feet pecking at crumbs from the tables! Great place to bring children although now more of a garden centre than what used to be a petting zoo! Loo's are in a portacabin!

We had such a lovely afternoon at badger hill farm for afternoon tea. The food was delicious, and the staff were so friendly and helpful.

Went for breakfast which was good & reasonably priced. The car parking is just on grass/dirt which gets very muddy after rain.

Excellent local cafe/ restaurant/ garden centre and farm, lots to offer very friendly staff plenty of selection and reasonable prices, Can't fault this place apart from the carpark was quite muddy when I visited, but guess this can be expected at the time of year

Great place to take children, love the cafe, animals and the garden centre. Some animal areas appear to have been closed but will have to see how they keep updating the place as seems a lot of changes are underway.

Since being taken on by new owners and renovated Badgers Hill is great. A really cosy and high quality cafe and a great garden centre. We have bought our Christmas tree there for the last two years, great quality and reasonably priced.

Delicious food, well priced, in a cosy setting with friendly staff. We had the best bacon bap for breakfast - it is how bacon should be imo. Staff were really lovely and left a happy birthday note for my boyfriend. We had a little walk around the garden centre and it has a lot to offer. There are some adorable hens running around and we saw some geese and ducks too. Worth a stop if you're in the area.

Muddy. This place is great but ...wow... the car park needs some wildebeest, antelopes and hippos to enjoy all the mud and.puddles..... really messes up your shoes or boots

Having just moved into the premises, the owners are making a grand job, definitely worth a visit, good advise ane lovely plants.

Badgers hill used to be great, but after meeting up with my friend we found it to be an awful experience. The car park is full of pot holes that have got worse over the years. I had no choice but to go through a gigantic one near the exit. It was full up with rain and my car got stuck in the middle of it. As I could not proceed I had to reverse. The only option was to go as far right as possible. As I did my passenger side w rubbed up against a tree stump that was not visible to me due to the heavy rain. I only knew what it was because my friend saw what happened. I won't be returning even in dry weather because those bad deep pot holes can ruin your tyres and worse.

This time, we had lunch. Excellent food. Jacket potato ++. Enormous, well presented, and delicious. Service good, so was coffee. Hopefully, when the planned renovations, etc, are completed, the toilets will be upgraded accordingly. Well worth a stop for lunch.

Really busy cafe (nice food) and garden centre. Animals for the kids to see. Picnic field with small play park too. However I would avoid on very wet days as the day I went the car park was an absolute mud bath and it was difficult to get to cafe and garden centre without walking through it.

Lovely little farm shop and garden centre with nice food,friendly staff who are also good with kids. Play area for the kids as well as a few animals. Make sure you take your wellies if it's been raining as the car park gets a bit muddy.

Fantastic food and decent play area for kids. Great garden centre with plenty of choice.

Such a friendly place, with lovely food

Lovely cafe with abundant outdoor space and a large kids play area

I love this little garden centre. Usually the food is very good, but on this visit I was disappointed. I had a gammon sandwich. The gammon was way too thick and dry and with doorstep bread it just wasn't very nice, but I would still go again, just not have the gammon sandwich 😄

Beautiful little spot friendly staff lovely food no cheap food and animals on site

Excellent for food and for families great play area, animals and more

Friendly and efficient nursery, great little cafe where dogs are welcome.

Beautiful place the food is always top notch lovely new play area

Sadly bought two azalea plants for over £300 in June this year and they were planted by an employee of the centre who recommended him to me. One is beautiful and one is clearly dying, both treated the same way. They tell me they had had the plants for over a year and they were fine when they left them and one of the plants has been shocked, maybe being replanted shocked one of the plants. They do not replace plants and offered me , as a gesture of goodwill £40! This is the only nursery in the area as far as I know who do not replace plants which die within the year! I lost a small tree from Canterbury Nursery at Herne after eighteen months, planted by my gardener and it was replaced without any query. BEWARE IF BUYING FROM THIS NURSERY, I DID NOT ACCEPT THE MONEY AND THEY DID NOT OFFER A PLANT IN ITS PLACE. ALSO BEWARE OF THE LADY MANAGER VERY VERY AGGRESSIVE AND UNHELPFUL, IN FACT DOWNRIGHT RUDE. THIS WITNESSED BY TWO PEOPLE WHO WERE WITH ME. The ladies in the restaurant and the food are excellent but forget the nursery plants.

A small centre where u can buy plants, can't call it a garden centre as there's nothing else to buy. Lovely cafe, food lovely and fresh but u get the impression they are trying to be a restaurant which they aren't really. Tables too were really sticky and not wiped properly.

Had a great day,the kids loved it,would definitely recommend 😁

Fantastic little farm shop with fresh coffee and local ciders. Staff are super friendly and there are chickens roaming freely around which are great to watch. We didn’t visit the garden centre side but it was certainly busy which is a good sign!

Lovely farm/garden centre, food was lovely, so much and a good price. Staff friendly and helpful.

We absolutely loved this place. Friendly staff and helpful. Good selection of plants. Animals are well looked after and stunning bar area. Cafe food options were good and tasty food. Only downfall was not wheelchair accessible. Toilets were so small and so low ,difficult to help a disabled person.

Called for lunch en route to Tunnel. Large car park was great as we were travelling in a motorhome. Friendly staff provided a warm welcome. We ordered the home made quiche which came with salad a coleslaw and was beautiful - light pastry with a lovely cheesy creamy filling. Fresh (proper) coffee and pot of tea to go with it (we didn’t have space left for the lovely cakes and scones that were on display) but will be calling on our return journey to sample the breakfast! In addition and good to know that it’s a family and dog friendly place with play area, well stocked garden centre and farm animals. Will definitely call again when in the area!

What a lovely little place to stop off and have a bite to eat. Service with a smile, food was great pricing was OK.

Excellent food. Highlights are the breakfasts and the ploughman's.

I used to come here years ago. The café & garden centre are lovely. I was disappointed there was no deli area. And the only cider I saw for sale was a few bottles near the café till area. Which was my main reason for going after 20years. So unfortunately i didn't buy any. Despite of that - the staff are really lovely.

Plants, animals, coffee, alcohol all the things essential to happiness 😊

Wide range of plants, and some livestock, etc. at the rear of the property. Coffee and eats quickly served in the indoor seating area. Outside seating is also available. Generous car park.

Lovely garden centre. Quite small but interesting choice of plants. Cafe served lovely food. Would be a five star if it served more cake choices and the cafe floor was regularly cleaned of dropped food.

I did leave a review on trip advisor but I feel I need to leave one here as well as I just can’t get over the way the staff and customers are treated by presumably the two managers. As a customer, seeing young girls be intimidated and moaned at by two fully grown adults it’s absolutely disgusting. If you notice, the employees are very young girls and I feel they employee these girls so the two owners feel as if they can’t intimidate and control these girls. Also the food was equally as bad and we saw it being handled with bare hands which is VILE! We could also see when queuing that the cutlery and plates were being washed up in dirty water! Very unhygienic. We waited an hour for the food and about an hour and a half for coffees and the food was cold and was missing the bread. When we received the bread it was clearly a very cheap type of bread from Morrisons or a corner shop. We also had several raw sausages and were told it was just the seasoning. One of the young staff members lives in my village and was telling me how badly she was treated and how they only ever have her negative feedback and shouted at her. Never once was she praised. Apparently they seem to pick out favourites and make it very clear and I feel that’s extremely unprofessional and a form of bullying. People in my area have not got one good thing to say about this place and because it’s in a small village it wont take long for it to get a bad reputation. As a customer I felt like I was an inconvenience when asking for things and I felt like I was being judged by these two staff members even when asking for sauce. I asked for sauces and was told I can have one sachet but any others I have to pay for. This is absolutely appalling and this review is not aimed at everyone at badgers hill. Mainly these two staff members and the food. I think this needs sorting asap as it is truly an awful environment.

Something about Badgers Hill that I love! From the animals and plants to the cafe and the peaceful surroundings.

All the staff we met were friendly, polite and willing to go out of their way to help. Even though we originally only went in for a coffee they helped with our toddler, getting a high chair and offering assistance, they made us so welcome we ended up staying for a Pannii. Coffee and snack were lovely. The plants were really good quality and we bought some of those as well. Definitely going back. Thank you

Been going here for years. Much better now they have less animals and more plants.