Newsletter No.9 The next webinar of the European Symposium for the Conservation of Historic Fruit and Kitchen Gardens is this coming week – Friday 29th November. If you would like to join (it’s free to attend) let us know and we can send you the link. The next newsletter is here to download – and read on for details about the World Days of the Art of Espalier, with an invitation to take part, coming up in January 2025
Newsletter number 8, October 2024 Gunnebo Kitchen Garden and orangery, Molndal, Sweden Learn about the conservation of European fruit and kitchen gardens and stay up to date about interesting events. • Join our new online conference on November 29, that will take you to the beautiful kitchen gardens of Gunnebo House in Sweden and Rosendal Manor in Norway. • Enjoy the presentations of the second in-person conference at Parc Broekhuizen • Uncover and discover hidden history at the WKGN Forum in North Devon, October 11-12, 2024. • Meet the Swedish Craft Laboratory. Our next newsletter will be a special on the world days of the art of espalier! Online conference… Read more »
11th and 12th October, at Knightshayes near Tiverton in Devon Updates and initial Programme We are looking forwards hugely to welcoming you to the Forum, initial programme details are ready (see link below) with our main speakers, a list of locally recommended accommodation. You can also see these and further updates as they come available in Events and Training including the gardens we will be visiting. If you plan to arrive the day before the Forum, let us know so we can tell you where we will be meeting that evening (10th Oct.) Ashley Court – just one of the gardens we’ll be visiting during the Forum
The National Trust are looking for a gardener to join the team at Attingham, with main duties to include working in the walled kitchen garden, looking after the veg from seed to harvest…. follow the link below for more details: https://careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_gl=1*1qd8jl1*_ga*MjEzODQ2NzMyOS4xNzE4OTgyODE3*_ga_S35LHB441D*MTcxODk4MjgxNi4xLjEuMTcxODk4Mjg2MS4xNS4wLjA.&_ga=2.175074786.1364159725.1718982861-1440957602.1718982861#/vacancy-detail/153498
11th and 12th October, at Knightshayes near Tiverton in Devon Dear friends, we are delighted to announce the Forum this year will be held at the exceptional National Trust property at Knightshayes. We are enormously grateful to Will Woodman, head gardener, and his team at Knightshayes, for inviting us to hold the Forum at this historic property, with its woodland gardens and important plant collections, and the elegant, restored walled kitchen garden. There will be more information to follow, and we’ll send out details of speakers and gardens in the next few weeks. The turreted Kitchen Garden at Knightshayes was originally laid out by William Burges in the 1870s, the… Read more »
Newsletter No 7 details of the next online talk on the 7th June (9-11am UK time) and further information on the Symposium live event in The Netherlands, 5th & 6th Sept. to book your place! Details for the WKGN Forum 2024 to follow, put the 11th and 12th October in your calendar to join us in North Devon
Newsletter No 6 with details of the next online talk (22 March) and more : Invitation to the second live Symposium event in The Netherlands – with earlybird discount!
We are very sad to have to announce that our founder, chairman and friend Susan, passed away on the 2nd January 2024. She had become ill very suddenly after Christmas at home, and died peacefully at the local hospice. Her family are planning a private funeral followed by a celebration of her life at her home late Spring/early Summer this year
People to thank and gardens to celebrate Dear friends, now at the very end of the year with the winter solstice behind us, Christmas festivities done and leftovers in the fridge, we want to send out our biggest thanks to everyone who has been involved with and supported WKGN this year. In March we celebrated Susan Campbell receiving the Veitch Memorial Medal 2023 from the RHS in recognition for her work over nearly 40 years, on and for walled kitchen gardens. It is also now 21 years since the initial meeting held at Hellens in Herefordshire, organised by Susan and Fiona Grant and which instigated the start of the Walled… Read more »
NEWSLETTER NUMBER 4, OCTOBER 2023 To attend the online Zoom seminar at 9.00am (UK) on October 12 please use this link; https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88410944615