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For the foodies!

We love food as much as we love plants here at Toby’s Garden Fest and take huge care to curate our street food and local food producer offering. This year many of our favourite foodies return, along with a few new ones, offering everything from sea food, to pizza, local meat, veggie goodies, along with …

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Plant shopping agogo!

Not long now until Toby’s Garden Festival pops up for two flower-filled days at Powderham Castle, and if you’re coming along for the plants, you won’t be disappointed! Here’s who is joining us on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 April… Buy your advance tickets from £12 here (Tea in the Castle tickets now sold out). …

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Traditional wood craft demos

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 …

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Plant Nurseries at the Festival

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, …

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Talk: Rebugging the Planet

Author Vicky Hird is joining us as a Friday speaker to talk about the importance of bugs! Bugs are everywhere but people often don’t realise they live surrounded by these wild creatures. From worms to wasps and bees to beetles – bugs are beautiful, inventive and economically invaluable. They are a vital part of our …

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Talk: A Healthy Veg garden

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 …

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