A new garden festival has been launched in the heart of Somerset, with key talent from the horticultural world appearing across 3 days.
Yeo Valley Organic Garden is launching a garden festival in 2025 at its site in Blagdon, Somerset.
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The Yeo Valley Organic Garden Festival will be a three day festival featuring the likes of Arit Anderson, Alys Fowler and Frances Tophill headlining, and talks and panel discussions from John Little, Kate Bradbury and Mark Diacono.
The new festival will be a chance for visitors to take part in hands on workshops, listen to discussions and buy plants and more from specialist nurseries.
Sarah Mead, head gardener of Yeo Valley Organic Garden said: “We are a nation of gardeners with an estimated 30 million gardens between us – that’s about 433,000 hectares of domestic gardens, a bit more than a fifth the size of Wales.
"The Yeo Valley Organic Garden Festival aims to inspire us all to get greener in the garden. It will be an unpretentious, upbeat and light-hearted celebration of gardening, where all garden enthusiasts are welcome.
"We are determined to ditch the formalities and the ‘one size fits all’ approach to organic gardening, and provide some myth-busting, jargon-breaking, real-life practical solutions to suit every garden and every budget."
The festival will take place between 18-20 September. Arit Anderson will open the festival on the Thursday, which has the theme 'Seeds of Change', with a talk on gardening for the future. Friday celebrates 'People and Pollinators', with a talk from Alys Fowler about perennial vegetables contributing to a healthy ecosystem.
The final day of the festival will conclude with 'Mission Possible' and Frances Tophill helping to inspire the next generation of gardeners.
Frances said: “I am thrilled to be speaking at the first ever Yeo Valley Organic Garden Festival. We desperately need to speed up the conversation about climate-resilient gardening. I am passionate about finding and encouraging a new generation of gardeners to dig in and get their hands dirty, which really starts with the reminder that there is no ‘right and wrong’ way of creating a garden."
