LaRocque Farms

LaRocque Farms is a wedding venue in Walworth, Wisconsin, where a renovated timber-frame barn, sailcloth tent, wildflower-filled grounds, and surrounding farmland create a secluded countryside setting for celebrations. The addition of a 544-square-foot kitchen garden brought the garden-to-table experience directly into the venue, giving chefs fresh ingredients to harvest while creating another beautiful place for guests to explore and enjoy.

The design began with the fountain. Positioned as the focal point at the center of the garden, it established the symmetry and structure for everything around it. From there, we designed outward, creating a formal potager with custom cedar raised beds, including unique triangular beds that follow the geometry surrounding the fountain. Custom nine-foot-wide arch trellises add height and frame views through the garden.

What grows here was planned around how the venue actually uses it. Two beds are dedicated entirely to herbs and edible flowers for garnishes and custom cocktails, giving guests the opportunity to pick something fresh from the garden for their own drink. Two more are devoted to strawberries, while the remaining growing space gives the chefs a rotating supply of vegetables, herbs, and flowers to harvest throughout the season.

But at a wedding venue, the garden also has to be more than productive. The symmetry of the potager, central fountain, abundant planting, and oversized arches make it a destination within the property and a natural backdrop for photographs. Guests can walk through the garden, gather around the fountain, pick a cocktail garnish, and experience some of what will eventually make its way to the table.

Details

  • Formal potager-style layout

  • 544 sq. ft. of growing space

  • Custom cedar raised beds

  • Custom triangular raised beds

  • Custom 9'-wide arch trellises

  • Two dedicated herb and edible flower beds

  • Two dedicated strawberry beds 

Location: Walworth, WI

LaRocque Farms kitchen garden design collage featuring custom cedar raised beds, triangular beds, black arch trellises, and views across the garden.
Aerial view of the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden showing the symmetrical potager, central fountain, cedar raised beds, gravel pathways, and adjoining in-ground growing area.
LaRocque Farms kitchen garden surrounded by lawn and farmland, with a fenced potager, cedar raised beds, black trellises, and central fountain.
Aerial view of the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden showing its symmetrical potager layout, central fountain, cedar raised beds, and surrounding countryside.
Formal potager garden at LaRocque Farms with a central fountain framed by cedar raised beds, flowers, and black arch trellises.
Open wooden gates framing the central fountain, cedar raised beds, colorful plantings, and black arch trellises of the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden.
Flowers and edible plants growing in the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden, with the farmhouse and rustic wooden arbor in the background.
Aerial view of the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden in Walworth, Wisconsin, showing the symmetrical potager layout, central fountain, cedar raised beds, and arch trellises.
LaRocque Farms kitchen garden collage featuring abundant edible flowers, cedar raised beds, custom trellises, and the central fountain.
LaRocque Farms kitchen garden design details featuring cedar raised beds, edible planting, custom arch trellises, and a natural color palette inspired by the property.
Central fountain framed by a custom black arch trellis and abundant flowers in the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden.
Collage of the LaRocque Farms potager featuring cedar raised beds, a central fountain, custom black arch trellises, flowers, and gravel pathways.
Abundant vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers growing in a cedar raised bed with custom black obelisk trellises at LaRocque Farms.
Colorful edible flowers and Swiss chard growing among herbs and vegetables in a cedar raised bed at LaRocque Farms.
LaRocque Farms kitchen garden set within the secluded countryside, surrounded by mature trees, lawn, and farmland in Walworth, Wisconsin.
Open gates welcoming guests into the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden beneath the words “a garden for gathering.”
L-shaped cedar raised beds filled with vegetables and flowers alongside custom black trellises and gravel pathways at LaRocque Farms.
Custom triangular cedar raised bed with drip irrigation integrated into the formal potager layout at LaRocque Farms.
Cedar raised beds filled with vegetables, herbs, and flowers beneath custom black trellises at LaRocque Farms.
Strawberries growing in a dedicated cedar raised bed with the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden, fountain, barn, and sailcloth tent beyond.
Open wooden gates leading into the LaRocque Farms kitchen garden, with cedar raised beds, flowers, arch trellises, and the central fountain beyond.

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