We look forward to welcoming professional Spanish guitarist and composer Mark Barnwell to the GardenFest at Powderham on Saturday 29th. Mark who you’d have heard at the Festival if you’ve joined us before is based in South East Cornwall and is a dynamic live performer. Mark’s repertoire includes Latin, Flamenco, contemporary and World Fusion as well as traditional Spanish guitar …
Gardening often results in a glut of produce and your freezer might become full with your family and friends refusing to eat another beetroot or parsnip. If that happens Julie Harrison of Wonderful Fermented Vegetables suggests you try fermenting some of your veg. Fermenting is one of the ways we have preserved vegetables for hundreds …
Somerset soap makers, Emma Burlingham (pictured right) and Jess Evans will be joining us at Forde Abbey on 16th and 17th September to share the art of creating home-made soaps. Jess, head gardener at nearby Knightshayes and Emma, a forest school teacher, will share their knowledge of soap-making gleaned from their own experiences of setting up …
Buy your tickets for Toby’s Garden & Harvest Festival today and get one-third off the gate price! Tickets for either day of the two-day harvest celebration at Forde Abbey in Chard, Somerset cost just £8.50 instead of the usual gate price of £12.50 if you buy in advance before 1st May. Entry to the Festival includes an opportunity …
We are delighted to announce a new and exclusive VIP experience is now available at Toby’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle this spring where you can relax and soak up the Festival atmosphere with friends, family or work colleagues. Located at the heart of the Garden Festival in the grounds of the historic castle, the …
We are delighted to announce Hearth & Cook are sponsoring our new Chill & Grill Zone at the Garden Festival at Powderham Castle on 28th and 29th April. Showing visitors to the Festival how to cook creatively in the garden, Hearth & Cook will be bringing along their Morso range of outdoor stoves and ovens …
Why not make a long weekend break of your visit to Toby’s Garden Harvest Festival? We have linked up with the well-known Cricket St Thomas Hotel to offer festival visitors a great package deal: a three-night stay at the Warner’s Leisure Hotel at Cricket St Thomas which is just ten minutes from Forde Abbey. The …
We’ve passed the 100 mark on exhibitors now booked for Toby’s GardenFest at Powderham Castle on 28th and 29th April with new applications still coming in daily. We are delighted that so many past exhibitors are returning to the Fest, including popular local Dawlish nursery Whetman Pinks, Chelsea award-winners Avon Bulbs, Thornhayes, Teign Trees, Urban …
Plagued by pigeons, run ragged by rabbits or are deer leaving your daphne bedraggled? Worry no more! At our New Pest Clinic sponsored by Grazers, Dr Ian Bedford – Head of Entomology at the world-renowned John Innes Centre for research In Norwich – will be on hand to help. Dr Ian, a regular pest expert …
Meet Sue Parkin, the first volunteer to sign up for our new Festival at Forde Abbey in September. Sue is a retired nursery nurse with five grand-children and has lived in nearby Axminster for the past 17 years. A keen gardener with a townhouse garden filled with cottage-style plants and box topiary, Sue belongs to not one but …
