July 2019
Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Matthew Byrne Gig at the Greenhouses
Matthew Byrne comes from Canada and from a musical family. Both his parents are fine singers and collectors of songs from various traditions. His music has travelled well beyond the rugged shores of his Newfoundland home since his 2010 debut, Ballads. Touring as both a solo artist as well as singer with The Dardanelles, he has graced major festival stages worldwide. With his second album, Hearts & Heroes, receiving Traditional Recording of the Year at the 2015 Canadian Folk Music…
Find out more »August 2019
Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with a mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens. Practise 1.5 hours of gentle hatha yoga, followed by seated meditation and restorative yoga These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on the…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Demi-John Terrarium Workshop with Jar and Fern
These beautiful vintage wine-making bottles make the most eye-catching terrariums. We will show you all the techniques and give you the tools to create these from scratch. We will explain the history of Terrariums, how to care for them and the ideal plants to fill them with. You will be provided with everything you need to create your own ecosystem. We will have a range of plants for you to choose from including Fittonia, Ivy/Fern and Moss as well as…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with a mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens. Practise 1.5 hours of gentle hatha yoga, followed by seated meditation and restorative yoga These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on the…
Find out more »Jar Terrarium Workshop with Jar and Fern
Learn the history of Terrariums, how to care for them and the ideal plants to fill them with. You will be provided with everything you need to create your own little ecosystem, we will have a range of plants for you to choose from including Fittonia,Ficus and Moss as well as a large sealable glass jar. We will guide you through creating your own terrarium which will be all yours to take home at the end of the session. This is a…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with a mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens. Practise 1.5 hours of gentle hatha yoga, followed by seated meditation and restorative yoga These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on the…
Find out more »Edible Garden in August – Succession planting
You can eat organic produce from your garden year round if you know the right things to do – and when. Every month in these Sunday morning workshops, you can learn from Cat our community gardener all about how to make your Garden Edible – 12 months of the year and using organic gardening methods. This is the time of the year when some of our veg beds begin to empty as we harvest. In these spaces we will sow…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with a mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens. Practise 1.5 hours of gentle hatha yoga, followed by seated meditation and restorative yoga. These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on the…
Find out more »Sunday Pizzas
This Sunday, we are firing up our cob oven, and rolling out our dough! Book your £4.00 Pizza Ticket now! Come down around 12.45pm and choose your toppings for your pizzas! The oven's normally hot enough to be churning out pizzas by 1pm and they are delicious!
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »September 2019
Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Edible Garden in September – Harvesting
You can eat organic produce from your garden year round if you know the right things to do – and when. Every month in these Sunday morning workshops, you can learn from Cat our community gardener all about how to make your Garden Edible – 12 months of the year and using organic gardening methods. We will look at harvesting and storage techniques. We will also sow autumn varieties of onion, shallots and garlic. Come in clothes you don’t mind…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Guitar Lessons in the Gardens
Are you looking to learn or improve in guitar? If the answer is yes then come to one of our 1-on-1 one hour guitar lessons led by guitar teacher Patrick Reynolds on alternate Saturday mornings. Our experienced teacher can guide you in getting started, learning chords, playing rhythm and lead, song writing, scales, arpeggios and much more. Before these lessons Patrick will liaise with you to find out what aims, skills and music styles you’d like to learn or improve…
Find out more »Fermentation Workshop in September
Join us at the sunny Greenhouses where we will talk about different ways to ferment and preserve food and make seasonal ferments using locally grown ingredients. You will leave with three ferments to take home and the confidence to ferment seasonally in your kitchen. If you can bring three large (c.500ml) or six smaller (c.300ml) clean, recycled jars with you, please do. If not, we have kilner jars we can supply at cost and a limited supply of recycled jars…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Lis Stewart and Chris Dyer Gig at the Greenhouses
Chris Dyer and Lis Stewart perform together on nyckelharpa, fiddles and Maccann duet concertina. They play hauntingly beautiful arrangements of traditional dance tunes from around Europe - particularly Scandinavia, England and France – along with more contemporary folk tunes and songs. Gates open 4pm to give an opportunity to see the gardens and get food and drink. Chris and Lis's first set will be 4.30pm to 5.15pm. Interval 5.15pm to 5.45pm. Second set 5.45pm to about 6.15pm. We put on our Gigs at…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Guitar Lessons in the Gardens
Are you looking to learn or improve in guitar? If the answer is yes then come to one of our 1-on-1 1 hour guitar lessons led by guitar teacher Patrick Reynolds on alternate Saturday mornings. Our experienced teacher can guide you in getting started, learning chords, playing rhythm and lead, song writing, scales, arpeggios and much more. Before these lessons Patrick will liaise with you to find out what aims, skills and music styles you’d like to learn or improve…
Find out more »Lucy Farrell Gig at the Greenhouses
We are delighted to be hosting Lucy Farrell for a Gig at the Greenhouses. With the Furrow Collective, Lucy won Best Group in the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. This year Lucy is embarking on a solo career something so many have been hoping for, since first hearing her exquisite renditions of traditional ballads and quietly moving original songs. Recently, Lucy played with Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band’s Big Machine album and tour, and did shows with the Emily Portman…
Find out more »October 2019
Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Edible Garden in October – Autumn seed sowing
You can eat organic produce from your garden year round if you know the right things to do – and when. Every month in these Sunday morning workshops, you can learn from Cat our community gardener all about how to make your Garden Edible – 12 months of the year and using organic gardening methods. While there is still some warmth remaining in the soil it is a good to get some seeds off to an early start. These are…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Harvest Festival Feast
For our Harvest Festival Feast this year, we are going to fire up our cob oven and roast the yummy courgettes, marrows and squashes we've grown in our gardens. Seasoned with our garlic, onions, tomatoes and herbs and served with some home-grown/made salads, ferments and home-baked sourdough bread, it should be pretty delicious. For pudding, we'll have something made from the soft fruits we have grown.... All this to the beautiful sounds of Emma Tubmen and Shotley Crue. Concession prices…
Find out more »November 2019
Fermentation Workshop in November
Join us at the sunny Greenhouses where we will talk about different ways to ferment and preserve food and make seasonal ferments using locally grown ingredients. You will leave with three ferments to take home and the confidence to ferment seasonally in your kitchen. If you can bring three large (c.500ml) or six smaller (c.300ml) clean, recycled jars with you, please do. If not, we have kilner jars we can supply at cost and a limited supply of recycled jars…
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