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
We’re also happy to be the new location for Fat Squirrel’s monthly Campfire Conversations. Friendly, relaxed, outdoor networking for making new connections, in our walled garden on a Thursday. For booking and dates please click here.
Fat Squirrel Outdoor are also offering fully hosted team building axe throwing sessions in our beautiful rural location on most Saturdays. For bookings please visit FSO website here.
See our Event Archive for previous events, so you can see the kind of things we get up to, and in case you are thinking of proposing an event. We are particularly open to community groups, small businesses and charities wanting a space in which to think and dream.
16th January 2026 - 3:00 pm - 18th January 2026 - 9:00 pm
Christina McMaster is a pianist, composer and founder of Lie Down & Listen – a truly creative spirit fascinated by deep listening and sound. Christina returns to the enchanting Asthall Manor in January 2026! Session Duration: 120mins experience Each session includes:...
31st January 2026 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on Winter Fruit Pruning 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 winter fruit pruning to encourage the health,...
4th February 2026 - 20th June 2026
The Garden will be open every Wednesday in February for the fabulous snowdrops, and from 20th May-20th June every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday afternoon for the springtime delights here in the meandering garden at Asthall Manor. Book tickets through our...
7th February 2026 - 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Join us in the beautiful St Nicholas Church for a seed swap with a difference! There will, in fact, be seed, soup and apotropaics – the ancient protective symbols that hide in plain sight on the stones of many of...
4-part Year-Round Ecological Food Growing Course
21st March 2026 - 5th September 2026
Wanting to learn how to grow your own food throughout the year or to simply improve your food growing skills? Join us in Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden for this 4-part course, taking you on a full circle yearlong ecological food...
An Afternoon with the Mitfords
29th March 2026 - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
A simply unmissable event for the Mitford-curious! Mimi Pond and Carla Kaplan will be in conversation in the Ballroom, about their books and their take on this infamous family, who lived at Asthall Manor between 1919 and 1926. In particular,...
Seed Sowing and Herb Cuttings- A weekend workshop on best practice vegetable and herb propagation
18th April 2026 - 10:00 am - 19th April 2026 - 4:00 pm
18th and 19th April – 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Join us here at Asthall Manor for a weekend journey through vegetable and herb propagation for your healthy food-growing needs. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. Good, home-based...
3rd May 2026 - 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
A chance to get your hands on some of our lovely seedlings at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, so that you can grow your own truly tasty treats at home. We’ll have tomatoes, winter squash, chillies, sweet peppers, cucumbers and much...
Making Compost and Natural Fertilisers – Turning Waste into Gold
13th June 2026 - 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...
1st July 2026 - 7:00 pm - 9:00 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...
18th July 2026 - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Handlebards return to Asthall Manor for a hilariously high-octane production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ like you’ve never seen before. Forget the tears and tragedy, our Macbeth is chock full of mishaps, mayhem and mirth. We all know the story. Three Witches...
Seed Saving – Closing the Loop on your Food Growing
19th September 2026 - 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...
17th October 2026 - 10:00 am - 18th October 2026 - 4:00 pm
Join us here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden, for a two-day voyage, journeying 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...
Gardening with Wildlife in the Winter – Some for the Birds, Some for the Bugs and Some for Us
14th November 2026 - 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...