Here’s my pick of the best winter squash – a group of pumpkins, gourds and hybrids that have skins that ripen into hard rinds meaning they keep for winter (Summer squash gherkins and cucumbers don’t). You might have read that pumpkins are good crops to grow on new plots as the giant umbrella-like leaves supress …
Pumpkins and dahlias stole the show at Toby’s Harvest Festival, two flower-filled days of plant shopping, cooking and craft demo’s at Somerset’s stunning Forde Abbey. Visitors travelled from as far as Norfolk and North Wales to revel in the harvest hygge, which included celebrity talks from Guardian writer Alys Fowler who filled Forde’s Great Hall …
Toby’s Harvest Festival is here! Here’s everything you need to know about times and getting here: Opening times are 10am-5pm each day. Dogs are welcome on short leads. Carer comes free with a blue badge holder Gate prices: Adults £12.50, Children (age 2-16) £4, Under 2’s go free, Family ticket (2 adults and up to …
Toby Buckland’s Harvest Festival rolls into town this weekend 15th and 16th September, arriving at Forde Abbey, near Chard in Somerset with a two-day celebration of all things cosy and autumnal. There’s hygge aplenty with a jam-making demo from Lillie O’Brien of London Borough of Jam, and flower-arranging with Georgie Newbery of Common Farm Flowers …
There’s sky-high fun for children at Toby’s Harvest Fest on 15th and 16th September! Unleash your inner clown with help from the Higher Beings who return with their popular Circus Skills Workshop, where you try your hand at unicycling, stilt-walking, hang from the aerial hoop, lie on a bed of nails and become an expert …
Choose the right plants for your garden and the Autumn show can be just as spectacular as the Summer performance, with coppery and russet tones that crackle and smoulder and provide colour right the way through until the first frosts. At our festival location of Forde Abbey, dahlias are a must-have and the Walled Kitchen …
Here are the times for Lee Connelly’s Children’s Gardening Show on 15th and 16th September. We also have our popular Circus Skills Workshop both days, Have a Go Archery, paper-Flower making, chill in the Knitting Yurt, apple-pressing with Vigo Presses and the Pomona, alpaca, rescue parrots, free tasters in Forde’s Kitchen Garden and Tree Listening …
Here’s the full list of what’s on around the festival site, including Tree Listening with Alex Metcalf, apple-pressing, what’s happening in The Knitting Yurt and lots more. For details of talks and demo’s please see: Demo Timetable Speaker Timetable
All the times in the Demo Tipi for demos and workshops on everything from jam-making, to growing cut flowers, cooking, foraging with Candide wreath-making demos and more. Sponsored by Candide app.
All the speaker times in the Great Hall where you can hear Matt Biggs, Alys Fowler, John Challis and our Gardeners’ Q & A session.
