What's On
Upcoming events at Asthall Manor and Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden for 2023.
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...
Eden in Asthall – Oxford Chamber Music Festival 25th anniversary
23rd May - 25th May
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....
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...