Nourish 2026 - Saturday Day ticket £80
Lunch included
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Growing | cooking | gathering | connection
Join us for a day dedicated to deepening our connection with food with a focus on growing and cooking vegetables. It will be an opportunity to dip into ways of eating more in tune with nature; we will explore what we eat, how we eat, when we eat, and how to grow the food that will nourish us in more ways than just nutritionally. We will examine the wider issues around food, farming and diet so you will leave with a deeper understanding of the importance of how food is grown, why it is all about the soil, the connection with our gut and microbiome plus new ways of cooking with vegetables.
Morning session Rewire, restore, renew followed by a workshop How does your garden grow in the field with Jonathan around growing your own food.
We will have a buffet lunch made with the freshest of produce from our field followed by an afternoon workshop The Power of vegetables by Karen focussed on inspiring ways to help you eat more vegetables with a wider look at how food can affect our health.
There will be a tea break and then we will take a walk to our neighbours Mark and Liz Lea at Green Acres Farm. An organic mixed arable and sheep farm where their focus is growing in a nature friendly way minimising their environmental impact as much as possible.
Rewire, restore renew
Katie will start the day off with a powerful session looking at health in a holistic way, exploring the nervous system and the role of nutrition in supporting health. Her intention is to help you slow down, reconnect, and rediscover what it feels like to feel safe, nourished and at home within your own body.
Katie’s work centres around calming the nervous system, restoring natural movement, and creating space for the body to heal and thrive. Her approach blends modern pain science with simple, grounding practices inspired by nature, nourishment and mindful living.
Katie Rothwell is a holistic therapist, Pilates instructor and founder of the BEAT pain methodology - an approach that brings together the brain, body, energy and lifestyle to support lasting health and recovery.
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How does your garden grow?
Jonathan's workshop is aimed at helping you with your own garden, whatever size. This is not only for beginners but anyone looking for a kickstart or looking for new innovative ways of growing without artificial imputs. He will guide you around our field showing you how we farm here, so you can take the ideas you like to your own spot.
He will cover topics such as the importance of the soil, ways to grow without the use of harmful chemicals, composting, different techniques such as no dig and other agroecological ways of growing, he will also cover how to deal with pests as well as essential information around growing, watering and harvesting.
Jonathan has managed the market garden here at Havenhills for the last four years as well as being the overall Manager/driver/accountant etc. etc.
The power of vegetables
Karen will lead a workshop aimed at inspiring you to include more vegetables into your diet. We all know we need to! - and her aim is to show you how to make vegetables more interesting and how cooking can be joyful. She will show you some simple ideas and principals for incorporating more vegetables into your diet as well as giving you some easy weekday meal ideas.
She will also touch on the wider issues around our food choices, gut health and touch on some of the latest science as well as ancient wisdom to help you try and make sense of some of the conflicting advice we get about food. Her workshop will also include some nutrition and information about why we might want to eat more seasonally.
Karen manages the kitchen here at Havenhills as well as sharing the cooking of our prepared foods with our chef Natalie.
A walk to Green Acres Farm
The day will finish with a walk to our neighbour's Mark and Liz Lea's farm. Green Acres is a mixed farm, which has been organic for 26 years. Crops for human consumption and grazing livestock, form a diverse system which has three aims, nutritious food production, nature recovery and environmental responsibility.
Mark and Liz are incredibly innovative farmers who have recently established a huge agroforestry project integrating trees with their cropping system, which you will see en route. For many years they have provided education around farming and host regular visits for schools and other groups.
Mark and Liz will accompany you for part of the walk explaining how their system works, and will show you their mill which produces the flour we use in our bread and pastry.
Green Acres Farm websiteMeet your instructors and guides
Katie
Mark & Liz
Jonathan
Karen