Growing a vegetable garden is a great opportunity to have a positive impact on your own health and increase biodiversity, all whilst putting food on your table.

When: Wednesday 30th April / Thursday 1st May / Wednesday 7th May 2025

Join us for a full day, hands-on workshop with our Head Gardener Penny Hemming. Penny grows 100% organic, flavoursome veg for our chefs to work with in the restaurant. She grows everything from beetroot, salad and sweetcorn to the more unusual crops of tropea onions, heritage tomatoes and tromboncino squash. 

You will learn the fundamentals of how to get started with your own growing patch and will sow some of your own seeds, aswell as taking home some seedlings to plant at home - whether you have a big garden, allotment or small courtyard.

Of course, no visit would be complete without a lunch full of freshly picked, seasonal produce from the fields around us.

When: Wednesday 30th April / Thursday 1st May / Wednesday 7th May 2025

Time: 9.30am - 4pm

Cost: £150 pp

To book, choose a date from above and go to that date on the calendar to the right. Select how many people and complete the online booking form.

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About your host: Penny Hemming

Penny is the head gardener at Riverford HQ. She can usually be found in 'Penny's Polytunnel', an Aladdin's Cave of unusual veg and herbs, used to supply the Field Kitchen restaurant. She also runs guided tours and farm walks, takes workshops and is a fount of knowledge about the history of Riverford and its land.

Photo credit: Rich Hyde