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Rewild Your Vegetable Garden Workshop
Join us on a tour of Knepp’s two incredible vegetable gardens and take a deep dive into how vegetables can be grown in a way that balances quality and productivity with the need to restore wildlife and combat climate change.
The historical Kitchen Garden in the Rewilded Walled Garden at Knepp Castle has been re-designed by Tom Stuart-Smith for sustainable vegetable growing at domestic scale. Inspired by regenerative principles, we’re diversifying our edible and useful plants, encouraging natural predators to control pests, including plants for a vast range of pollinators and providing important wildlife habitat. We’re also improving our soil conditions to grow sustainably and help store carbon.
Our organic, regenerative three-acre Market Garden at the Wilding Kitchen and Shop produces food on a much larger scale – tons of vegetables a year. Our amazing growers will explain how they manage this space throughout the seasons to grow and harvest beautiful vegetables and salads chosen for flavour, interest and productivity; and how they build soil, provide habitat, and integrate flowers and cover crops into the system.
The workshop rounds off with a foodie, three-course celebration of all things vegetable, provided by our wonderful chefs at our Michelin-rated Wilding Kitchen, a stone’s throw from the Market Garden.
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The workshop starts at the Rewilded Walled Garden at Knepp Castle. After an introductory presentation by one of our senior garden team over tea and coffee in the old Apple Store you’ll head out for an hour’s tour of the castle’s Kitchen Garden.
You’ll then drive in convoy for the six-minute drive to the Market Garden where our growers will take you on a tour of the regenerative beds, herb garden, propagation units and polytunnels for roughly an hour.
Lunch will be at 2pm, just next door, at the Wilding Kitchen, where our head chef’s team will introduce their special menu selection of delicious vegetable dishes created with some of the produce you’ll just have seen. Soft drinks included. Organic wine, beer and cider available to buy.
Please note, we don’t provide transport and will be expecting you to use your own car to get from the Walled Garden to the Market Garden. But if you’re stuck, please let us know ahead of the workshop.
This workshop starts at the Walled Garden next to Knepp Castle in the Middle Block of the rewilding project – a different place to all other safaris. Please follow the directions on your pre-visit email.
11.00am-3pm
£125 per person
Important information
- Please see our Pre-Visit Information which will help prepare you for your safari
- All guests must be over 12yrs. We cannot accommodate unaccompanied guests under 18yrs
- We regret we cannot offer date changes once your booking is made, please refer to section 15 of our T&Cs for refunds
- We cannot guarantee the great British weather, or that you will see your target species
- Nature is unpredictable! However we’re confident you’ll enjoy your experience with us, come rain or shine, and there’s always plenty of wildlife to see