What's On
Upcoming events at Asthall Manor and Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden
In addition to the events listed below, we host yoga with Tiffany Lindsay on Monday evenings, from 6-7.30pm.
Tiffany is a senior yoga teacher with decades of experience.
If you would like to find out more, or make a booking, please contact Tiffany on [email protected] or 07554057986
Although we are not having an Open Garden Day as such this summer, all of the events below include access to the garden, and time to walk around.
See our Event Archive for previous events.
Kitchen Garden Workshop: Making Compost and Natural Fertilisers – Turning Waste into Gold
21st June - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on home composting here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. In this all-day workshop you will learn the basics of different composting systems alongside a bit of helpful...
Kitchen Garden Workshop – Let Food be thy Medicine
28th June - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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...
River and Landscape Walk- Asthall Manor Woodlands and Meadows
28th June - 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Come and join our FREE event! Organised by Mid Windrush Land and Nature Group and Supported by Oxfordshire County Council Attractions include: Refreshments (cold drinks and biscuits) Browse our informationdisplays and chat with other local nature lovers See Harry...
Guest Event – HandleBards production of Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
2nd July - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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...
Kitchen Garden – Nature & Environment Book Club
13th July - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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...
Making Connections – A day to explore connections and work together
2nd August - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us at Asthall Manor on Saturday 2nd August 10am-4pm. The aim of the day is to encourage local projects to make connections and work collaboratively to increase their impact locally and globally. By using the framework of Doughnut Economics...
Kitchen Garden Workshop: Seed Saving – Closing the Loop on your Food Growing
13th September - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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...
11th October - 10:00 am - 12th October - 4:00 pm
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...
Kitchen Garden – Nature & Environment Book Club
9th November - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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...
15th November - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on the benefits of gardening with wildlife here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. A thriving and diverse population of insects and animals, big and small is key...