Paradise Found
Thinking about an eco-friendly honeymoon? These resorts grow fresh ingredients to use in meals and spa treatments.
Sooke Harbour House |
Sooke Harbour House, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Located 45 minutes west of the capital city, Victoria, the intimate, 28-room Sooke Harbour House has been offering straight-from-the-vine cuisine for nearly 25 years. The year-round organic garden is a magical labyrinth of more than 200 edible plants. Sweet-smelling roses, relaxing lavender, unusual vegetables and wild salad greens create a tapestry of brilliant colors. Guests are welcome to stroll among the earthly delights at any time, or take a tour with the head gardener. At the property’s restaurant, feast on artful cuisine composed of garden-fresh and other locally sourced ingredients. Menu specialties include steamed sole dressed in an apricot-lavender puree and served with braised pumpkin and baby bok choy. 1528 Whiffen Spit Road, Sooke, British Columbia, Canada; sookeharbourhouse.com.
Outdoor dining at CuisinArt |
CuisinArt Spa & Resort, Anguilla
The organic garden movement started here in 2000, with the property’s famed hydroponic fields. In a glass-enclosed area, rows of light-green lettuce, intensely rich-hued tomatoes and peppers grow in a liquid nutrient, while leafy herbs, delicate edible flowers and bok choy climb trellises. Outdoors, you’ll find melons, okra and pumpkins. Daily tours wind past the indoor gardens and an outside orchard, which yields sugar-sweet guava, star fruit and avocados. Throughout the property, lime, orange and lemon trees swell with citrus fruit and fragrant white flowers. At the resort’s main restaurant, French-influenced cuisine with a Caribbean twist highlights the garden’s yield. Standouts include hydroponic cucumber gazpacho with crayfish, and poached Anguillan lobster served in a spicy coconut-milk sauce. Spa treatments, such as the coconut pineapple scrub and the hydroponic cucumber and aloe wrap, also draw from the on-site cornucopia. Rendezvous Bay, Anguilla; cuisinartresort.com.
The Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa |
Boulders Resort & Golden Door Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona
A lush organic garden in the dusty foothills of Arizona’s Sonoran desert might seem like a mirage, but the folks at the Golden Door prove that with the right care anything is possible. Located next to the resort’s spa, the garden lends a burst of green to the red-rock scenery. At the center of the tranquil space sits a mesquite-burning stone fireplace, used for preparing chicken, beef and fish for the resort’s six restaurants. At the bilevel spa restaurant, guests enjoy home-squeezed juices and garden-fresh meals, such as spinach and arugula tossed with cucumber and pear tomatoes in a thyme vinaigrette, and tortilla wraps bursting with squash, tofu, mushroom, peppers, spinach and asparagus. At the resort’s 33,000-square-foot spa, a menu of 60 revitalizing treatments features the oils of garden-sourced sage, lavender, cinnamon and cloves, finely milled organic cornmeal and fresh mashed pumpkin. 34631 N. Tom Darlington Drive, Carefree, AZ; theboulders.com.






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