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May 2025
Kitchen Garden Workshop – Sustainable Low Interventon Beekeeping
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 free manner with a bit of helpful theory. We will look at different approaches ranging from hands off bee hosting through to low interference honey harvesting. Conventional beekeeping emphasises beekeeper inputs and beekeeper control. We will be looking at bee-centred…
Find out more »Kitchen Garden Workshop – Gardening with wildlife (Summer)
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…
Find out more »Eden in Asthall – Oxford Chamber Music Festival 25th anniversary
Three days of inspirational music and events to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Oxford Chamber Music Foundation. Asthall Manor and Asthall church will host concerts, workshops and lots of spontaneous uplifting music connected to nature and the natural world. Presented by the Oxford Chamber Music Festival and artistic director Priya Mitchell The weekend also includes a painting workshop by Kieran Stiles, as well as a dynamic painting and music improvisation in the garden. Friday 23rd May, 7-8pm concert…
Find out more »Where Heaven Meets Earth – a workshop on painting Asthall’s trees, with Kieran Stiles
As part of Oxford Chamber Music Festival's 25th anniversary celebrations, Kieran is teaching this special workshop on Asthall's magnificent trees. Explore ways of creating the effect of shimmering light on treetops in oils. Working in oil on board from direct observation All materials provided. Booking direct through Kieran Stiles. £70 Email Kieran to book.
Find out more »Where Heaven Meets Earth with Kieran Stiles- Dynamic improvisation with Kieran Stiles
A dynamic live painting and musical improvisation in the gardens with artist Kieran Stiles Experience a conversation between two entangled art forms exploring the dynamism of creativity. Part of Oxford Chamber Music Festival’s ‘Eden in Asthall’ weekend. Free - No booking required. Saturday 24 May 3pm-4pm Sunday 25 May 1pm-2pm
Find out more »Plant Sale/Plant Swap!!!!!
Come and get some of our lovely seedlings at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Tomatoes, winter squash, chillies, sweet peppers, cucumbers and more, to help your garden grow come tasty treats! Bring some plants for the swap table or simply come for a cuppa and a natter :-) - No ticket required. All proceeds to Asthall Wild CIC.
Find out more »June 2025
Guest event – In The Footsteps of The Mitfords
The Mitford sisters were writers, travellers and political archivists with dramatically differing views. Following their previous sell-out success, In The Footsteps Of The Mitfords returns, as Scary Little Girls and Chipping Norton Theatre bring the experiences, opinions and relationships of the celebrated sisters to life through their letters, fiction, and memoirs. All in the stunning setting of their childhood home, Asthall Manor, near Burford. Booking essential, dress for all weathers and bring footwear you can explore in! The walk includes…
Find out more »Dawn Chorus Walk
Come and join the early morning joy of birdsong on a walk through our woodland paths and meadows. Your guide will be Adrian State, local conservationist and bird expert. And, to reward you for the early start, you'll be treated to a delicious veggie breakfast in our guest kitchen before you go home. Birds we've heard this year include spotted fly-catchers, reed warblers, chiffchaff and blackcap, as well as numerous tits, wrens, thrushes and finches of various kinds. This event…
Find out more »Kitchen Garden Workshop: Making Compost and Natural Fertilisers – Turning Waste into Gold
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 theory. You will also carry out some fun, practical work to apply your learning and to help keep us warm. Good, home-based or community-based composting is one of the key but often missing links to achieving the growing of healthy,…
Find out more »Kitchen Garden Workshop – Let Food be thy Medicine
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…
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