EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Supper Club: English Riviera
Where the warmth and ease of Mediterranean dining meet the richness of the British countryside. This menu is shaped by August's abundance; heritage tomatoes at their best, peaches, plums and herbs at their most vibrant.
Gather for an evening to savour the end of summer with us, with a menu inspired by a lighter, more generous style of eating with ingredients gathered at their peak.
Supper Club: Harvest Table
As the evenings mellow into autumn, come and join our celebration of harvest. From wild mushrooms to freshly picked apples and pears, this menu will draw inspiration from our fields, orchards and hedgerows.
As summer draws to a close, The Harvest Table offers an opportunity to savour the richness of the land and the simple pleasure of gathering together around thoughtful, seasonal food.
Everlasting Bouquet Workshop - With Bunch
Everlasting bouquet workshop using naturally dried English flowers
Join Melissa from Bunch at The Orchard Barn for a creative and inspiring dried flower workshop in the heart of Oxfordshire, surrounded by the beautiful Cotswolds countryside. Explore the complete journey of dried flowers. From what to grow, how to dry, storing, and creating and wrapping a hand-tied gift bouquet.
A local florist known for her natural, seasonal style, Melissa specialises in working with naturally grown English flowers and sustainable techniques. We will look at the best flowers to dry and techniques as well as those varieties that hold their colour, form and provide beautiful texture in your arrangement. Melissa will guide you through how to create and gift wrap your everlasting bouquet to take home and enjoy.
All materials, tools, and expert tuition are included, along with refreshments from The Yurt.
With no previous experience needed, this friendly floristry workshop is perfect for beginners, creative afternoons with friends, or anyone looking for a unique workshop experience in Oxfordshire or the Cotswolds.
Come and make a day of it! Book lunch at The Yurt www.rosara.co.uk/eat
We are also hosting an afternoon session for this workshop, which if you’d like to join then follow the link below!
Everlasting Bouquet Workshop - With Bunch
Everlasting bouquet workshop using naturally dried English flowers
Join Melissa from Bunch at The Orchard Barn for a creative and inspiring dried flower workshop in the heart of Oxfordshire, surrounded by the beautiful Cotswolds countryside. Explore the complete journey of dried flowers. From what to grow, how to dry, storing, and creating and wrapping a hand-tied gift bouquet.
A local florist known for her natural, seasonal style, Melissa specialises in working with naturally grown English flowers and sustainable techniques. We will look at the best flowers to dry and techniques as well as those varieties that hold their colour, form and provide beautiful texture in your arrangement. Melissa will guide you through how to create and gift wrap your everlasting bouquet to take home and enjoy.
All materials, tools, and expert tuition are included, along with refreshments from The Yurt.
With no previous experience needed, this friendly floristry workshop is perfect for beginners, creative afternoons with friends, or anyone looking for a unique workshop experience in Oxfordshire or the Cotswolds.
Come and make a day of it! Book lunch at The Yurt www.rosara.co.uk/eat
We are also hosting a morning session for this workshop, which if you’d like to join then follow the link below!
Supper Club: The Woodland Table
A supper shaped by the season's quieter, deeper abundance, with hearty ingredients including celeriac, leeks, Jerusalem artichokes, and foraged woodland mushrooms, all at their best.
Gather around the fire with us for a warm evening celebrating local, seasonal ingredients curated by Head Chef Andrew Carr.
Candle Making Workshop with Time To Burn
Join us at Rosara for our first ever Candle Making Workshop. In this Autumnal all-natural Candle Making Workshop we will bring you back to nature and take you back to science class.
In our workshops, you’ll dive into the art and science of scent creation using essential oils, learning how to create a powerful clean scented candle. Hannah will guide you through the chemistry of marrying natural essential oils and with natural pure soy wax to make your own truly unique candle.
Enjoy a light lunch for free while your candles set, then take home your 40 hour candle made with a handcrafted jar and free gift bag!
Timings on the day:
10.45 - Guests arrive, grab a free drink and choose a candle jar.
11.00-13.00 - Candle Making Workshop
13.00-14.00 - light lunch is served while your candles set. Have a drink and have a potter round Rosara's fabulous offerings, including their shop. It will be approximately one hour before your candles are ready.
14.00-14.30- Trim wicks, open gift bags, have a chat about candle care advice & then guests depart
Bulbs and Baubles with Arthur Parkinson
Join us at ROSARA for an inspirational talk and demonstration by the wonderful ARTHUR PARKINSON followed by a TWO-COURSE LUNCH in our Michelin-recommended yurt restaurant.
Arthur will talk about his favourite bulbs and how to combine them together in pots for flamboyant flower yard displays, including a bulb lasagne, and he’ll demonstrate staking for both forced Christmas bulbs inside and spring bulbs outside too. Arthur will be sharing tips for winter sweet pea sowing, growing and staking them for the spring season ahead. Followed by inspirational demonstrations for natural, foam free Christmas decorating and in-season flower arranging of dried and fresh seasonal flowers grown and saved from the garden.
Timings on the day:
9:30am - Guest arrival, with 15 minutes of mingling time to enjoy complimentary hot drinks and homemade baked goods.
9:45am - Arthur will present and talk about his favourite bulbs.
10:45 - 11am - 15 minute break period.
11am - Arthur will demonstrate how to create natural Christmas decorations, and arrange seasonal fresh and dried flowers from the garden.
12pm - 30 minutes for shopping and book signing.
12:30pm - Seated for two-course lunch in our Yurt restaurant.
Tickets are £95 and include coffee and cake on arrival, two hours of flamboyant plant talk from Arthur, and a two-course lunch.
Supper Club: Wild Game Night
Celebrate the richness of the British game season, expect a menu shaped by inspiration from wild game meats such as wild venison, pheasant, & partridge, alongside wild mushrooms, celeriac, brassicas & root vegetables.
Supper Club: A Festive Feast
We invite you to gather around our log fire under the canvas for an evening shaped by the quiet magic of winter. Inspired by festive gatherings, our menu will include heritage carrots, winter brassicas, chestnuts, squash at its peak, along with orchard apples and pears seasoned with warming spices.
Settle by the fire and savour the arrival of Christmas through food that reflects the beauty of the season and the landscape surrounding us.
Supper Club: A Summer Table
As the English countryside settles into its fullest expression of summer, we invite you to gather under the canvas for an evening of seasonal cooking, and warm hospitality.
Inspired by the lighter, brighter style of eating that comes with warmer days, this Supper Club will celebrate the season's most fleeting pleasures, sun-warmed tomatoes, tender courgettes, fragrant herbs, and ripe berries.
Party Flowers with Arthur Parkinson
Party flowers with flair - Arthur style! Join us for a fun and informative morning where Arthur will share his knowledge on how to grow and harvest flowers for parties. Whether you are planning a wedding or a small summer lunch, this inspiring workshop will fill you with confidence!
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MIDSUMMER FEAST
Come and enjoy an evening wander around our plant nursery, followed by dinner in the yurt. The kitchen garden is at full potential and we would love to treat you to the best ingredients from the garden and our local suppliers.
Big Green Week: Celebration of Nature Writing
Tickets are £5 plus a small booking fee, £5 of the ticket will go toward a book on the day.
Join garden and cookery writers and fiction authors to hear why the natural world is so important to their work and to celebrate the range and wealth of nature writing today.
Celia Rees has written over twenty books for young adults, recently changing her focus to adult fiction. In her hugely popular Witch Child and its sequel Sorceress, she explores healers, both European and Native American, and their use of herbs and plants in medicine. Her first adult novel, Miss Graham’s War, centres around a cookery book and the use of recipes as a way of sending coded messages between women.
Jane Rogers has published ten novels, two collections of stories, and written and adapted drama for TV and radio. She is passionate about the natural world and her more recent fiction sets out to explore what life on earth may be like in the future. Her latest collection, Fire-Ready, looks at present and future aspects of the climate emergency. Five of these have recently been broadcast on Book at Bedtime.
Kathy Slack left London life and a career in advertising after suffering burnout and depression. A move to the Cotswolds led to training as a chef, growing vegetables and creating recipes. She is now a designer, cookery teacher at schools and festivals, photographer and award-winning food writer. Her two books are From the Veg Patch and her latest, Rough Patch. She has a regular slot on BBC Radio Oxford.
Linda Newbery writes fiction for adults and young readers, with titles including Lob, inspired by the Edward Thomas poem of that name, and Set in Stone, a Costa Prize category winner. Her latest adult novel, The One True Thing, illustrates the transforming power of gardening and immersion in the natural world. With Celia Rees and Adèle Geras, Linda hosts the literary blog Writers Review.
Claire Cox is a poet, poetry editor, critic and publisher. Her engagement with nature is lifelong, but her environmental concerns have been sharpened through extensive doctoral research for her latest book The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene. Here, issues around man-made industrial disasters, the consequences of extreme weather events, melting Arctic ice, and how we might respond to these through our own writings are explored in depth.
C.atherley: Live Pelargonium talk with Cath Kidston
£35PP and include refreshments and a bake on arrival, followed by Cath’s talk.
Join us for an exciting live talk with Cath Kidston, on her new C.atherley range and love of Pelargoniums, forming the foundation for her most recent home & body collection!
C.Atherley is a remarkable body care brand that celebrates scented pelargoniums. With geraniums, as they’re widely known, scent emanates from leaves, not flowers. The idea first took root in Cath Kidston Padgham’s greenhouse at home in Gloucestershire, where she lovingly tended these plants. Over time, the UK-made brand has grown to four collections, with each one an homage to a different pelargonium variety.
The day will begin with coffee and cakes, followed by a one hour talk with Cath and Liz Nicholson, and then a half-hour workshop on how to look after Pelargoniums at home from our horticultural team. This event doesn't include lunch, however we have our Michelin-recommend Yurt restaurant available to book, and our new cafe for lighter bites after the talk!
Tickets are £35PP and include refreshments and a bake on arrival, followed by Cath’s talk.
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THE WILDFLOWER TABLE SUPPER
As you can imagine as a gardening company, we get very excited about our wildflower dinner in the yurt. Our Yurt will be decorated from gardens and nature and wild flowers will be included in every part of the menu… A true festival of flowers. This one is likely to sell very fast so book now.
Introduction to Botanical Art with Victoria Bolduc
Join Victoria for a full-day of botanical art in the beautiful Orchard Barn at Rosara.
Perfect for beginners, this enriching and restorative experience focuses on connecting with nature whilst learning foundational techniques in drawing and watercolour painting. With mindful painting sessions and a relaxed atmosphere, you’ll complete your own artwork to take home and gain the skills to continue exploring art.
Tickets are £85PP and include refreshments and a full-day painting workshop in our Orchard Barn.
The Money Saving Gardener with Anya The Garden Fairy
Join us for The Money Saving Gardener with Anya Lautenbach (aka @anya_thegarden_fairy)! Anya wants more of us to feel the mood boosting benefits of gardening and with her accessible and thrifty tips for creating high-impact, low-cost gardens hopes to encourage more of us to grow ourselves happy.
Join us from 10:30am for coffee and bakes before Anya's inspiring talk, followed by a two-course lunch in The Yurt!
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FROM GARDEN TO TABLE SUPPER
We hope that you will join us for this wonderful supper as we celebrate the new season’s early English produce. Working closely with our local suppliers in North Aston, our chefs will bring the taste of the spring vegetable garden to your table.
SPRING FAIR 2026
Spring is here, and we’re celebrating in style! Get your hands dirty with seasonal planting, explore wildlife wonders with the Wildlife Trust, and keep the little ones entertained with fun activities across the centre.
Craft your own seasonal vibe at our spring wreath workshop, book your spot on our events page. Our team will be sharing top horticultural tips so you can make your garden bloom like never before.
Plus… there’s a little surprise we can’t wait to reveal!
Come for the plants, stay for the fun. It’s the ultimate kick-off to spring!
Spring Wreath Workshop - with Bunch
Join Melissa from Bunch at The Orchard Barn for a creative and inspiring Spring Living Wreath workshop in the heart of Oxfordshire, surrounded by the beautiful Cotswolds countryside.
A local florist known for her natural, seasonal style, Melissa specialises in working with locally grown flowers and sustainable techniques. During this relaxed, hands-on workshop, she’ll guide you step-by-step through creating your own stunning living spring wreath using fresh foliage, dried flowers, and spring bulbs.
Each wreath is built on a natural willow base and decorated with locally sourced, seasonal materials. Your finished design will continue to evolve and bloom on your door throughout spring — and once the season ends, the bulbs can be replanted in your garden to enjoy year after year.
All materials, tools, and expert tuition are included, along with delicious refreshments from The Yurt at Rosara events, Nicholsons. With no previous experience needed, this friendly wreath-making class is perfect for beginners, creative afternoons with friends, or anyone looking for a unique workshop experience in Oxfordshire or the Cotswolds.
The Flower Yard with Arthur Parkinson
Join Arthur - author of the Flower Yard - in this creative and inspiring workshop.
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BACK TO OUR ROOTS SUPPER
Winter is a challenging time for home grown vegetables but never underestimate our traditional wonderful root crops. Come and join our supper club in our warm yurt where our chef Andrew and the Yurt Team will serve an exquisite menu, celebrating UK sourced root crops. Never underestimate the humble parsnip in Andrew's hands!
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VALENTINE’S SUPPER
Why not treat your loved one to a romantic dinner in the Yurt. Enjoy a welcome cocktail, the warmth of our wood burning stove and a wonderful menu created by our chef Andrew. The rustic charm and cosy intimacy provides the perfect backdrop for romantic occasions.
“Thank you so much for Thursday night… inspiring as ever. We have long wanted to meet Tony Kirkham and he did not disappoint - such a charming man.
The occasion was made even more pleasurable by a lovely glass of fizz and Andrew’s wonderful canapes from The Yurt. We can’t wait to see what the 2026 calendar holds in store for us!”
Looking for somewhere to stay?
Located just 10 minutes from Rosara, stay in local luxury thatched 16th century holiday cottages, the perfect place from which to explore the surrounding Cotswolds National Landscape!
