Our Garden
Just outside SWK lies our organic garden. A diverse assortment of vegetables, fruits, herbs, and edible flowers is just a few steps away from the kitchen, ready to be transformed into delightful meals and cocktails. Our chef and gardener work together on selecting plant types, variations, and schedules to guarantee a continuous supply of unique and dependable crops flowing from the garden to the kitchen all season long.
Foraging
We are lucky to have a few small, established orchards that give us fresh plums, peaches, cherries, apricots, apples, and pears! When possible, we also source vegetables and fruits from other local farmers that are able to grow different varieties. Our unique desert-mountain environment lends itself well to responsible foraging of plants like mint, cattail shoots, sumac berries, juniper berries, and much more.
Grass-fed, Grass-finished
In addition to the crops we grow right here in Salt Gulch, we also raise cattle at our ranch in North Boulder. All the steaks and beef at Sweetwater Kitchen are grass-fed, grass-finished and rotationally grazed on our pastures for the entirety of their life. Before the animals arrived we took 3 years of preparation to ensure they had the best living conditions. The soil was amended, select grasses planted to ensure they had a nutrient dense and diverse food The animals are raised with love and respect, weaned off their moms naturally, not branded, not moved with any aggression just simple calls to move them from one lush pasture to the next.