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.
4th February - 20th June
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...
Acrylic Woodlands- Artist’s workshop by Kieran Stiles- SOLD OUT
6th March - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
We welcome back Kieran Stiles for another of his popular painting workshops in the ballroom. Acrylic Woodlands – The polymer resin binder in acrylic paint is very fast drying. If this drying process is slowed down by adding layers of...
Acrylic Woodlands- Artist’s workshop by Kieran Stiles
20th March - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Due to popular demand, we have added another date for Kieran’s workshop! Acrylic Woodlands – The polymer resin binder in acrylic paint is very fast drying. If this drying process is slowed down by adding layers of watercolour washes, it...
4-part Year-Round Ecological Food Growing Course
21st March - 5th September
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- SOLD OUT!
29th March - 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 - 10:00 am - 19th April - 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...
Low Intervention Beekeeping Workshop
2nd May - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on low intervention beekeeping 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 keeping healthy bees in a low intervention, chemical...
3rd May - 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...
Gardening with Wildlife in the Summer – For Families
30th May - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Some for the Birds, Some for the Bugs and Some for Us. We’re taking our popular Gardening with Wildlife workshop onto a new level this year, by trialling a family-friendly version! As usual, complete beginners through to keen amateurs are...
Making Compost and Natural Fertilisers – Turning Waste into Gold
13th 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...
1st July - 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 - 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 - 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 - 10:00 am - 18th October - 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 - 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...