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
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Demo Tipi 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.
Speaker Timetable
All the speaker times in the Great Hall where you can hear Matt Biggs, Alys Fowler, John Challis and our Gardeners’ Q & A session.
Five Seasons of Jam
Lillie O’Brien’s jams are something a little bit different. All the flavours of the seasons, but with a twist. As a rule, she never mixes two fruits together, preferring to use something else to enhance the intrinsic flavour of the fruits she has to hand; her fig with Earl Grey jam flies off the shelves …
Making Meadows
One of the highlights in the garden at Forde Abbey this summer has been a corner of wildness – interlocking wildflower swirls woven with a mix of over thirty different blooms providing pollen and nectar for butterflies and bees and a long-lasting display with a succession of different flowers, each growing up and through what’s …
Perfume Pop-Up
When David and Julia Bridger of Parterre decided to combine the ruling passions of their lives – art, gardens, travel and perfume, they set in motion a series of events that are poised to change the face of British fragrance forever. Embracing the concept of ‘from seed to bottle’, David and Julia not only set …
Back to School for Grown-Ups!
September is all about back-to-school but there’s no reason why the grown-ups can’t get stuck in and learn something new! At Toby’s Harvest Festival at Forde Abbey on 15th and 16th September there are oodles of opportunities to learn from the experts, gardeners, chefs, craftspeople and even circus folk! Storm-in-a-Teacup is bringing her rustic Knitting …
Artisan Charcuterie in the Demo Tipi
Thin slivers of salami and coppa are a regular feature on the menu in Forde Abbey’s supper clubs – hand-reared and home-cured by local chef Ed Versluys from Mello View, who will be sharing his recipes for artisan charcuterie in the Demo Tipi at Toby’s Harvest Festival at Forde Abbey on Saturday 15th September. With …
Listen to the Trees!
On Sunday 16th September Alex Metcalf, aka the Tree Listener, as seen on BBC One’s My Passion for Trees with Judi Dench, will be at TV gardener Toby Buckland’s Harvest Festival at Forde Abbey, Chard in Somerset. Alex is hooking up to one of Forde Abbey’s magnificent trees with his sensitive microphones so visitors can …
Make a Mini Allotment
Keep little hands busy this summer with some home-grown inspiration from the Blue Peter Gardener Lee Connelly, aka The Skinny Jean Gardener. Create your own mini allotment and grow your own salad with this cheap and easy make to do with mum and dad! You will need: Washing up bowl (£2) Compost (£3) Salad mix …