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
See our Event Archive for previous events.
Kitchen Garden Workshop – Seed Sowing for Vegetables, Salads and Herbs
22nd March - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on the effective seed sowing of tasty vegetables and herbs here in the Asthall Manor Kitchen Garden. Complete beginners through to keen amateurs all welcome. In this all-day workshop you will learn the fundamentals of...
Kitchen Garden Workshop: How to Take Cuttings of Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs
5th April - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
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 the fundamentals...
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: Making Compost and Natural Fertilisers – Turning Waste into Gold
21st 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...
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 Workshop: Seed Saving – Closing the Loop on your Food Growing
13th 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...
15th 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...