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Hippocrates, the founder of Western Medicine, was famous for saying, ‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. In a world of fast food, processed food and obesity as an epidemic, food as medicine is now more important than ever. But is eating ‘vegetables’ enough? How can we make sure that we are getting the most nutrition possible out of our plants? Join Jean Smith, social anthropologist and keen vegetable grower, for Let Food be thy Medicine. On…

Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues across the UK. Join the troupe at Asthall Manor for a bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ like you’ve never seen before. In usual HandleBards style, expect riotous amounts of energy, a fair old whack of chaos, and a great…

Come and join us at the second meeting of the Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden Nature & Environment Book Club. At our first meeting we discussed Dave Goulson’s, Silent Earth and decided the titles for July & November. We are pleased to announce that in July we will be reading and discussing Tony Juniper's recent book, Just Earth. How a fairer world will save the planet. We can’t fight the climate and nature crises without addressing the ever-widening gaps between the rich…

Join us for a workshop on saving seed, here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden (opposite Asthall Manor). Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. It is well documented that the best seed you can sow is the seed that you have saved from your own garden, where those plants have learned to love to grow! In this all-day workshop you will learn the basics of saving seed from different vegetable plants and their beneficial companion plants. This will involve…

Join us here at Asthall Manor for a weekend voyage, deep into the living soil beneath our feet, investigating all that lives there and the composts that best feed it for our food-growing needs. A good understanding of soil health and composts is the foundation to growing healthy, nutritious (aka tasty) food. Healthy soil means healthy plants, means healthy people.  In this immersive two-day workshop you will study the basics of soil science and the life that supports it. Bringing…

Come and join us at the third meeting of the Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden Nature & Environment Book Club. This will be our last discussion of 2025. We will be discussing Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. "As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Robin embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it…