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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
