An intensive day course that is both inspiring and very enjoyable. On this course you will be guided through the basics of throwing on the potters wheel, starting with simple tapas dishes, you will progress with support to pieces such as coffee cups, cereal bowls and plant pots. During this one day course you will also explore the hand building process of ceramics to make a range of gorgeous items, such as house signs, tiles and coasters, jewellery, vases and dishes…

Monday morning YIN yoga classes so you can begin your week the way you mean to go on with clarity and mindfulness.

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Our Friends of Vallis membership allows you to enjoy Vallis Farm in a new way. Every Thursday you are welcome to visit the farm, meander through our kitchen and market gardens and talk to members of the Estate team you might stumble across along the way.

Did you know our microbiome is a living community?

Eating Sauerkraut and Kimchi and other foods teeming with good bacteria (probiotics) will feed it and that is great for our health.

Come along to a hands-on, friendly workshop and learn the secret of making successful and delicious Sauerkraut with Alex from Somerset Kimchi & Kraut.

Join fellow local growers for light breakfast and open conversation at Vallis Farm.

Whether to simply enjoy a bit of solidarity, indulge in the specifics of compost-making, or – like last time – discuss the best way to set up an outdoor bath, this shared breakfast will provide a convivial meeting point for small and medium-scale fruit and veg growers in the area.

This is aimed at market gardeners and those aspiring to run or be part of similar businesses.

Make an effective herbal cough syrup in this popular, hands-on workshop. Learn to understand different types of coughs, identify the best herbs to use for each, and explore various methods of syrup-making. Leave with a new remedy to add to your medicine cabinet.

Monday morning YIN yoga classes so you can begin your week the way you mean to go on with clarity and mindfulness.

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Our Friends of Vallis membership allows you to enjoy Vallis Farm in a new way. Every Thursday you are welcome to visit the farm, meander through our kitchen and market gardens and talk to members of the Estate team you might stumble across along the way.

Hridaya Hatha Yoga is a meditative style of practice where you will be guided into postures with the intention of becoming more internally focused and really witnessing all that is moving in you.

We are inviting our neighbouring farmers/land owners to our first gathering to help start a farm cluster group around the Egford/Nunney Brook. This is so we can figure out ways of protecting it and work together to improve our practices and support one another in general.

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Hridaya Hatha Yoga is a meditative style of practice where you will be guided into postures with the intention of becoming more internally focused and really witnessing all that is moving in you.

This is a space for women to feel included and supported.  A space for women in the community to connect, share, and celebrate their experiences, through sharing, craft and other activities all held in a circle of belonging.  

Learn to graft your own fruit trees with Oliver Dowding!
Owner of orchards and maker of award winning juices and ciders, Oliver is a whizz at grafting. And he's coming to Vallis Farm to share his knowledge with us!

Get ready for a wild feast of delicious organic, rare breed sustainable food dishes from the Somerset and Wiltshire countryside.

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Hridaya Hatha Yoga is a meditative style of practice where you will be guided into postures with the intention of becoming more internally focused and really witnessing all that is moving in you.

Embrace the warmth of creative writing and dispel the winter blues at The Magic Quill’s adult creative writing workshop, specially designed to bring joy and inspiration into your writing.

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Hridaya Hatha Yoga is a meditative style of practice where you will be guided into postures with the intention of becoming more internally focused and really witnessing all that is moving in you.

Did you know our microbiome is a living community?

Eating Sauerkraut and Kimchi and other foods teeming with good bacteria (probiotics) will feed it and that is great for our health.

Come along to a hands-on, friendly workshop and learn the secret of making successful and delicious Sauerkraut with Alex from Somerset Kimchi & Kraut.

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Join local author & heritage tree specialist Julian Hight as he tells the story of Selwood Forest through some of its majestic ancient trees. £12

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

This is a space for women to feel included and supported.  A space for women in the community to connect, share, and celebrate their experiences, through sharing, craft and other activities all held in a circle of belonging.  

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

An intensive day course that is both inspiring and very enjoyable. On this course you will be guided through the basics of throwing on the potters wheel, starting with simple tapas dishes, you will progress with support to pieces such as coffee cups, cereal bowls and plant pots. During this one day course you will also explore the hand building process of ceramics to make a range of gorgeous items, such as house signs, tiles and coasters, jewellery, vases and dishes…

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

Learn the alchemy of compost in our whistlestop tour of how to compost and create soil from your kitchen waste!

Nature and wildlife social group for anyone living with dementia. From nature conservation to arts and crafts. Always featuring tea and biscuits.

This is a space for women to feel included and supported.  A space for women in the community to connect, share, and celebrate their experiences, through sharing, craft and other activities all held in a circle of belonging.  

Play (and Stay?) offers parents the chance to work from our Farm House whilst your child / children (aged 8-12 years) are entertained on the Farm.

Play (and Stay?) offers parents the chance to work from our Farm House whilst your child / children (aged 8-12 years) are entertained on the Farm.

Easter Monday

This is a foraging walk for both adults and children (accompanied kids go free) including a meal at the farm cooked with foraged ingredients we’ll gather at our walk.

Join us as we learn from Eddie Bailey about soil microbiology and it’s importance with gardening and nature £10

Join us for a tour of our farm, looking at what nature can offer us at this time of year. Learn how to identify common edible plants, what what to do with them and what aspects of health they are good for. Then gather round the farmhouse table and sample nature's spring bounty, buffet style!

Expect to go home full of ideas and good food.

What is Forest Gardening and who is it for?

This ancient form of gardening is familiar in the tropics but a relatively new thing in colder climates, but the principle works just as well! It can also work in any space, you do not need to be forest sized!

This is a space for women to feel included and supported.  A space for women in the community to connect, share, and celebrate their experiences, through sharing, craft and other activities all held in a circle of belonging.  

Celebrate Harvest Festival with this fun-packed, family day at Vallis Farm.

In this short, half day course we will:

• Look at the benefits of no dig versus digging and look at the results in our market garden

• Learn how to build a no dig veg bed. 

• We will also look at:

• Methods of propagation.

• Multi sowing and successional planting to save space and time

• Companion planting

• Which veg to grow to suit your needs.

• How to deal with pests and diseases without resorting to chemicals. 

This is a space for women to feel included and supported.  A space for women in the community to connect, share, and celebrate their experiences, through sharing, craft and other activities all held in a circle of belonging.  

Come and join us to learn about the Somerset Eel Recovery Project (SERP) with the enthusiastic Vanessa Becker-Hughes £10

Come and join us with celebrating the biodiversity we have here on the farm and around us. Ticket sales will open in March 2025

Chris Riley is an experienced scythesman and scythe trainer. His background is in nature reserve management and running groups of volunteers.

A modern continental scythe is surprisingly effective for mowing small meadows, verges, weeds, and even lawns.

This is a space for women to feel included and supported.  A space for women in the community to connect, share, and celebrate their experiences, through sharing, craft and other activities all held in a circle of belonging.  

Learn how to create a haven for wildlife in your own space no matter what the restrictions and without compromising on beauty.

Join us for a tour of our farm, looking at what nature can offer us at this time of year. Learn how to identify common edible plants, what what to do with them and what aspects of health they are good for. Then gather round the farmhouse table and sample nature's autumn bounty, buffet style!

Expect to go home full of ideas and good food.