If you’re crackers for local cheese, then don’t miss the Sharpham Cheese & Wine Pop-up, back for its second year at Toby’s Garden Festival. Greg, Nicky and the Sharpham team are reviving their gorgeous foodie offering in front of the Artisan Barn, offering a chance for visitors to buy and try their artisan, handmade cheese, …
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, …
Gardener and smallholder Sally Morgan delves into a myriad of ways to create a healthy, biodiverse growing space packed with vegetables and flowers fueled by a healthy soil. She provides plenty of ideas on how to improve your soil, mix up your planting, try different rotations, attract pollinators and natural predators plus manage pests and …
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 …
In 1943, over 1700 women were serving in the Women’s Land Army and the Women’s Timber Corps in Devon. Living and toiling individually on farms or as part of a gang that lodged in a hostel and worked on the land wherever they were needed, the Land Girls and Lumber Jills were crucial to maintaining …
