What's On
Upcoming events at Asthall Manor and Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden for 2023.
Kitchen Garden – Nature & Environment Book Club
30th March - 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Come and join us at the inaugural meeting of the Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden Nature & Environment Book Club. At our first meeting we will be discussing Dave Goulson’s, Silent Earth. Given the proximity of this date please still come...
Kitchen Garden Workshop: How to Take Cuttings of Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs
5th April - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
View Tickets Join us for a workshop here in Asthall Manor’s Kitchen Garden on how to take effective cuttings from your fruit, vegetables and herbs. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. In this all-day workshop you will learn...
Kitchen Garden Workshop – Sustainable Low Interventon Beekeeping
10th 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...
Kitchen Garden Workshop – Gardening with wildlife (Summer)
17th May - 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...
Guest event – The voice of nature
23rd May - 25th May
The voice of nature : 3 days of inspirational music in Asthall church this Spring from May 23 -25th presented by the Oxford Chamber Music Festival and artistic director Priya Mitchell. Concerts, workshops and lots of spontaneous uplifting music making based...
Guest event – In The Footsteps of The Mitfords
6th June - 5:00 pm - 8th June - 5:00 pm
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...
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...
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. All insights are valuable additions to the discussion. We are still...
11th October - 10:00 am - 12th October - 4:00 pm
Join us here at Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden for a two-day 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...
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. At our first meeting we discussed Dave Goulson’s, Silent Earth. All insights are valuable additions to the discussion. We are still...