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Returning to Forde Abbey in 2018 – Toby’s Harvest Festival. After a successful first year in September 2017, we can’t wait to do it all again! Join us on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September.
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SUCCESS! Our fifth year of Toby’s Garden Festival was so much fun! Look out for the dates for next year’s event – early bird tickets will be on sale towards the end of the year.
Who’s speaking at Forde Abbey in 2018?
Coming up in September we are welcoming some fabulous garden speakers and experts! We’re delighted that actor John Challis, better known as Boycie from Only Fools & Horses was so popular with Powderham visitors we have lured him back to be with us at Forde Abbey, plus we have the wonderful Alys Fowler, RHS judge Jim Buttress, Matt Biggs of Gardeners’ Question Time fame and… drum roll…. the Blue Peter Gardener!
Plus the demo tipi makes welcome comeback with NEW workshops on paper-flower making with Wildhive’s Bee Watson, photography lessons with Andrew Maybury, tree talks from Kevin Croucher of Thornhayes Nursery plus all the favourites from last year – cider-drinking, apple-pressing, basket-weaving and much more to be announced in the coming months
Highlights…
Don’t miss our Harvest Festival at Forde Abbey on 15th and 16th September! We have so much going on both days guaranteed to entertain young and old. Popular workshops from 2018 return including scything, meadow-making, willow-weaving, circus skills and tree tours, along with the vintage Massey tractors and the charming Pomona apple press where you can bring your own apples for juicing.
NEW for 2018, we have Lillie O’Brien from London Borough of Jam joining us in the Demo Tipi on Saturday to demystify the art of making preserves while on Sunday 16th Alex Metcalf, aka the Tree Listener, will be hooking up to one of Forde’s magnificent trees with his sensitive microphones so we can hear the inner rumblings of the xylem and phloem – the very life of the tree – at work.
Award-winning photographer Andrew Maybury is leading hour-long photography workshops both days or if you fancy a meditative moment, head to The Knitting Tent where you learn how to knit and crochet or sit down with WildHive and make a beautiful flower from paper. In the Demo Tipi, we have demo’s on flower-farming, weeds you can eat and making the most of your veg crops, wreath-making, and on the Top Lawn Serena de la Hey’s amazing willow head, designed to raise awareness about the M5 Willow Man will be on display – step inside and enjoy the view!
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