Good news for 2022! After a hiatus last year, when we couldn’t run the Artisan Barn due to Covid, it’s back bigger and better than ever. We are delighted with our wonderful curated range of art, craft and handmade jewellery, much of it local to Devon and the West Country. Plus, we have our outdoor …
For 2022, we’ve expanded our new Heritage Wood Crafts Zone, where you can watch Devon craftspeople at work, using ancient skills and traditional tools to make household, gardenware and charcoal. John Williamson of Dartmoor Woodcraft makes stave baskets, identified by the Heritage Crafts Association (HCA) as a critically endangered craft which use pre-industrial green woodworking …
Shopping basket at the ready? We’ve got a blooming great line-up of nursery exhibitors joining us at Toby’s Garden Festival on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 April at Powderham Castle. These wonderful growers will be offering a huge array of quality, local-raised plants for your garden. Everything from cottage garden plants, to exotics, climbers, clematis, …
Grape news! The marvellous Daily Telegraph wine writer – and local Devon gal – Susy Atkins is joining us on stage at Powderham Castle at Toby’s Garden Festival on Saturday 30 April. The BBC Saturday Kitchen expert will be giving a talk alongside other celebrity experts, including garden designer and BBC Gardener’s World presenter, Arit Anderson, RHS judge Jim Buttress and festival host and TV gardener, Toby Buckland. …
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT: Joining us at Toby’s Garden Fest on Friday 29 April is professional wildlife cameraman for over 30 years, Tim Shepherd. Tim who lives and works locally in Devon specialising in timelapse and is known for ground-breaking TV series, including BBC’s Private Life of Plants which treated plants growing and behaving as living creatures like any …
If you’ve ever used gardening as a way to be more mindful and make you feel better on stressful days, then you might be interested in our brand new talk session for 2022. Sara Dance, a Teignmouth certified breath coach and Wim Hof Method instructor, will be joining us at Toby’s Garden Festival on Saturday …
We are introducing a brand-new festival ticket for Toby’s Garden Festival in Spring 2022, including entrance to the festival at Powderham Castle on either Friday 29 or Saturday 30 April and tea/coffee and cake in the castle . Served after 2.30pm, here’s your chance to relax in the castle music room and libraries, with your choice …
A record number of people now find that keeping chickens is an incredibly rewarding experience. First time exhibitors at this year’s festival are Paul and Sandy McEvoy who run The Hen House Farm, near Yelverton in Devon, who not only sell chickens but are on a mission to introduce families, schools and care homes …
Good news for cactophiles (cactus lovers to you and me ) who can look forward to seeing award-winning Coach House Cacti exhibit at Toby’s Garden Festival for the first time. Dorset-based Coach House is run by David Ennals supported by wife Jane (pictured below). David has been growing cacti since childhood and is acknowledged as one of …
