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March 2026
4-part Year-Round Ecological Food Growing Course
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 growing journey! Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. Over this 4-part course you will learn the basics of soil biology, composting systems, best practice seed sowing, planning your food growing year, crop care, winter crops and seed saving…
Find out more »July 2026
Forest Bathing
Claire is a Wellbeing and Nature Connection Coach with an International Forest Therapy Diploma from Nature & Therapy UK, where she is also a senior mentor for upcoming practitioners. She facilitates Forest Bathing walks, retreats and courses across the Cotswolds, creating space for deep rest and reconnection with the natural world. Join Claire this summer at Asthall Manor for a Mindful Forest Bathing walk. You will be guided to slow down and connect with nature through your senses in our beautiful grounds.…
Find out more »Handlebards- Macbeth
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 promise Macbeth the Scottish crown and like any normal people would, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to kill the king. Things get rapidly out of hand from there as foul deeds are done, plots unravel and mysterious spirits appear… Suitable…
Find out more »August 2026
Lie Down and Listen
Friday 28 August Metamorphosis 12pm, 3pm, 7pm An experience of potentiality and transformation. Sounds: Tibetan Bowls + Phillip Glass Harp Music + time for dwelling and gentle reflection Saturday 29 August Illumination 12pm, 3pm, 7pm Welcoming in the lightness, joy and mystery into your heart and being. Sounds: Tibetan Bowls + Classical Harp featuring Einaudi + time for dwelling and gentle reflection Select from one day or two days of blissful 2hrs sessions "A new frontier in wellness...utterly blissed out" -The Financial Times …
Find out more »September 2026
Practicing Energy Healing for the Land – a Botanic Shed Soil to Soul Retreat
Come and learn the art of energy healing for the land here at Asthall Manor with expert guidance from Lara Cowan. Increase your intuition and healing skills through guided land energy healing sessions. Learn about Earth Acupuncture, when and how to use it. take time to connect with the land, hone your intuition, and your healing powers. suitable for anyone, from beginners through to experienced healers. All that is needed is an open heart. tea/coffee, cheese, and crackers available Flow…
Find out more »Seed Saving – Closing the Loop on your Food Growing
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…
Find out more »Practicing Energy Healing for the Land – a Botanic Shed Soil to Soul Retreat
Come and learn the art of energy healing for the land here at Asthall Manor with expert guidance from Lara Cowan. Increase your intuition and healing skills through guided land energy healing sessions. Learn about Earth Acupuncture, when and how to use it. take time to connect with the land, hone your intuition, and your healing powers. suitable for anyone, from beginners through to experienced healers. All that is needed is an open heart. tea/coffee, cheese, and crackers available Flow…
Find out more »October 2026
SOIL! A weekend workshop on Soil Life, Compost, Organic Matter and Natural Fertilisers to make your garden grow
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 of soil health and composts are the foundation to achieving the growing of 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…
Find out more »November 2026
Kitchen Garden Workshop: Gardening with Wildlife in the Winter – Some for the Birds, Some for the Bugs and Some for Us
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 to the growing of healthy, nutritious (aka tasty) food. Healthy wildlife means healthy plants means healthy people. In this all-day workshop you will learn the fundamental benefits of gardening with wildlife while growing food for people. You’ll develop an understanding…
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