Eco
Our eco-friendly wedding venue is blessed with a stunning location. We care so much for our beautiful surroundings and looking after our little part of the world is at the heart of everything we do. Being custodians of our beautiful and sustainable wedding venue is a real privilege — one that every member of our team takes very seriously. We’re committed to ensuring that future generations can enjoy our wonderful home just as much as we do. That’s why we’re proud to do our utmost to be eco-friendly and kind to the environment.
It means everything that our couples entrust us with their wedding day, and we aim to deliver the very best wedding celebration possible while continually striving to reduce the impact that our activities and actions have on the environment. Our sustainable policies help us to reduce our carbon footprint and create a perfect backdrop for the wedding of your dreams at our eco friendly wedding venue.
Our expansive gardens, rustic meadows and farm are home to a diverse range of wildlife. Our lovingly converted barn wedding venue is full of unique charm with our barnyard and paddocks home to a wonderful array of rare-breed animals. The icing on the cake is the delicious home grown food from our organic small-holding. Together our uniquely rustic elements create an exclusive Hertfordshire wedding venue that celebrates love, nature, and sustainability in perfect harmony.
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From field to fork...
Our organic smallholding supplies nearly all the vegetables, herbs, fruit, eggs and some of our pork whatever the season to our green wedding venue. We grow literally hundreds of varieties of fruit, vegetables and herbs all freshly harvested and delivered by hand to our kitchen. What isn’t cooked fresh from the garden is lovingly preserved for sauces, compotes, and cordials, ensuring nothing goes to waste. It truly is field to fork — and it’s the key to our fresh, seasonal, and organic wedding food. Every dish is a celebration of flavour, sustainability, and homegrown goodness. You’ll really taste the difference at our eco-friendly wedding venue!
Wildlife Conservation and Eco-friendly Planting
You only have to look around our eco-friendly wedding venue and you will see that over the years, we’ve worked hard to nurture and protect the natural environment surrounding our eco-friendly wedding venue. We’ve created diverse wildlife habitats and planted over 1,000 indigenous hardwood trees, heritage orchards, and kilometres of native hedgerow.
Our pretty wildflower meadows burst with colour and life, providing essential food and shelter for bees, butterflies and countless other wildlire. Our nesting boxes are home to many of our resident birds, including barn owls who return to our sustainable wedding venue year after year. We also manage a nearby reservoir and nature reserve — a thriving haven for wildlife such as crayfish, kingfishers, reed warblers, and over half of all the dragonfly species found in the UK. Our sustainable wedding venue is a true celebration of nature!
Why choose South FarmFor your dream Eco-friendly wedding
With sustainability becoming an ever-growing priority, many couples are seeking ways to minimise the environmental impact of their wedding day. If you’re dreaming of a green wedding that’s magical, romantic, and also kind to the planet, we can help make it a reality. We are dedicated to offering a stunning setting empowered by sustainability and our long-held green values. We know how to balance the beauty and joy of a fairytale wedding with our deep commitment to environmental responsibility. Our sustainable mission is at the heart of everything we do, helping you create a truly memorable, environmentally friendly wedding day to cherish forever.
Carbon footprint
Sustainable principles are important to us at our environmentally friendly wedding venue. We email our brochure digitally where possible, reducing paper and post costs. In-room refreshments are supplied in glass bottles. We don’t provide fridges in our guest accommodation at our sustainable wedding venue – with the exception of the Coach House Suite for the obligatory bottle of fizz for our newly-weds!
Waste Reduction
Waste Reduction
At the heart of our efforts to sustainably manage waste is the reduction of single use plastics including bags and bottles. All our drinking water is provided in glass jugs and bottles or kilner jars. We only use bio-degradable paper straws and have refillable toiletry bottles in our guest bedrooms. Any waste generated is carefully sorted and recycled at our sustainable wedding venue.
Green Energy
We are committed to a fully green energy tariff and continue to roll out low energy appliances and lighting. In 2025 we are investing in a significant solar array to reduce our footprint further. The food and cooking oil waste from our eco-friendly wedding venue is sustainably recycled by Olleco and converted to biodiesel, biomethane, electricity, heat and organic fertiliser.
Field to Fork FreshnessEco-friendly wedding venue
At South Farm we strive to serve the wedding sector and our community in a sustainable way. We are determined do the best we possibly can in reducing our carbon footprint. Alongside our current sustainable measures, we are keen to continue to introduce new environmentally friendly initiatives whenever we can.
We have recently installed EV chargers to encourage travel to and from our sustainable wedding venue that has a lower impact on the environment. We are truly a field to fork venue growing 70% of our own fruit and vegetables on-site using organic principles – meaning zero food miles – not to mention the tastiest food! We continue to invest in improved eco growing techniques and technologies, such as new irrigation systems – using water from our bore hole – and netting for organic pest control, to allow us to grow more, and to grow greener.
All our sustainable efforts are possible because of our amazing team! We are proud to offer flexible working for local people who bring a wide range of skills to our friendly, happy team!
Field to Fork
Our homegrown produce is tended with care and delivered daily to the kitchen by our smallholding team meaning zero food miles, zero packaging costs & minimised refrigeration! Working together, our chefs and growers plan the planting & harvesting across our 10 acre smallholding. Our talented chefs create sesaonal menus from the produce grown here at South Farm.
Our Animals
Our rare breed animals live in harmony in the barnyard & paddocks at our sustainable wedding venue. Our rare breed chickens rub shoulders with pigs & runner ducks in the barnyard while our sheep & lambs graze in the paddock. Our chickens & bantams produce rich tasty eggs for the kitchen and we keep runner ducks with the poultry to protect them from local foxes.
Homegrown with Love
Our farming uses organic principles & harnesses the power of nature to help us grow a diverse range of crops with no need for chemical fertilisers, herbicides or pesticides. Our orchard provides an abundance of fruit and our free-range chickens give us all our eggs. Over-winter storage for crops such as squash, onions & garlic mean these can be used in our menus all year round.
Sustainable Sourcing
We source responsibily from local suppliers and endeavour to buy organic, free-trade & Rainforest Alliance certified products wherever we can. We only externally source what we really have to, preferring to use our home-grown produce wherever we can.
Diversity
We are proud to offer fully plant-based, vegetarian & gluten-free menus and a wide range of ethnic menus at our sustainable wedding venue so prepare yourself for a truly delicious feast whatever your dietary needs may be! Our chefs are experienced in an impressive range of cuisines including Kosher-friendly, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Moroccan, European & African, to name a few. Our comprehensive wine list includes organic, vegetarian & plant-based options.
Our Team
Our talented team bring a wide range of skills to our eco wedding venue. We recruit locally offering flexible employment, progressive training, apprenticeships & work experience placements. Our enthusiasm is contagious & extends to everything we do! Underpinned by our genuine love of weddings, and our heartfelt sustainable principles, we are proud of our friendly, helpful & professional Team.. we are only ever as good as them & our feedback is testament to that!
Our History...South Farm an Eco wedding venue
Building Conservation
Our eco wedding venue features Grade II listed barns and farmhouse that have been sympathetically restored retaining the history of the original working farm. Developing the land from a barren site with just two trees to the beautiful landscape you see today has been a labour of love over fifty years. Our beautiful Cambridgeshire outdoor wedding venues buildings take pride of place encircled by meadows, courtyards, gardens and our organic smallholding.
Water Preservation
Our sustainable wedding venue is home to pretty wildlife ponds, that are also functional. Our reed and willow bed uses the waste water on site with a large amount of the excess returned to our onsite water table. Water from our onsite borehole is used to irrigate our crops and flush our toilets. The reed bed, our wildlife ponds, and water reserves also provide an ecological habitat for a wide range of animal species around our environmentally friendly wedding venue.
Our Community
We support the Red Cross and other good causes including Orchid Cancer Charity, Petals Baby Loss Counselling, Wedding Wishing Well Foundation and National Garden Scheme. We are proud of the local friendships we have fostered and our community efforts are of mutual benefit. Our large composting facilities which feed our fields are enriched by horse manure supplied by our friendly neighbours’ stables.
Green Weddings
If you’d like to reduce the carbon footprint of your Wedding we are here to help. We regularly update advice to our couples on sustainable weddings and we love hearing about your green wedding plans and ideas. Whether you have questions about our eco-friendly wedding venue, initiatives or sourcing locally grown seasonal flowers, sustainable favours or eco-friendly decorations for your wedding day our friendly team are on hand!
Confetti Love
We provide beautiful dried rose petal confetti for all our couples. And uniquely in the Summer months our confetti is homegrown! Our Dublin Bay red roses are grown especially for confetti and we harvest and dry the petals for guests to use! Throughout the rest of the year we source bio-degradable rose petals so your confetti is not only pretty and fragrant but also environmentally friendly!
South Farm's Eco Mission
By choosing South Farm as your ethical wedding venue you’re supporting a wider environmental mission. Our eco-wedding venue has taken steps to conserve water, reduce energy consumption, and promote biodiversity across our 20-acre estate. Our own bore hole provides water for watering so we are able to maintain lush green grass and beautiful bursting flower beds even in the height of Summer. We believe in preserving our beautiful Hertfordshire scenery so that future generations can continue to celebrate their love in this idyllic, sustainable setting.
Sustainable weddingsEco-friendly venue
Our sustainable policies help us reduce our carbon footprint and create a perfect backdrop for the wedding of your dreams at our eco friendly wedding venue. Our expansive gardens, rustic meadows and farm are home to a diverse range of wildlife. Our outdoor barn wedding venue space and our barnyard and paddocks are home to our many rare-breed animals. The icing on the cake is the delicious home grown food from our organic small-holding at our exclusive wedding venue.
All you need is loveSince 2005
We’ve been hosting weddings since 2005 and have a full appreciation of personal choice and the cultural imperatives of a diverse range of ceremonies and catering options. Our menus include include Vegan, Vegetarian, Pescatarian, Halal, Kosher friendly and Masorti Guidance. We’ve proud to have hosted many same-sex weddings and multi-cultural marriage celebrations including Afgan, Hindu and Jewish weddings to name a few!
A helping handFrom the experts
Planning a wedding can seem a little daunting, but our experienced team of wedding co-ordinators will help you every step of the way. Acting as your go-to person, our team will help co-ordinate your planning and be there to support, calm, organise and make sure everything goes perfectly to plan on the day at our exclusive wedding venue in Hertfordshire.
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