Imbolc to Spring Equinox: Events at 10 Trees.
The earth is emerging from the stillness of winter towards growth. The wild mix of these two energies shows up in blustery wind, spring tides and the first thrilling bird song. This powerful time of year, from Imbolc (1 Feb) to Spring Equinox (20 March) invites us to take risks, start journeys or just run with the wind.
Pickle Club: Spring Edition @ Open House.
5.45-7.45pm
Our much-loved preserving and making club returns to Open House for a spring edition, hosted by the 10 Trees team!
We’ll be cosying up in the cafe and kitchen again to create beautiful things made from nature, together - bringing what we have from home and sharing what we can.
Tuesday 17th February - quick pickles
Tuesday 24th February - hair and beauty products
Tuesday 3rd March - plant-based cleaning
Tuesday 10th March - spring tonics and teas
Tuesday 17th March - herb cordials and syrups
Tuesday 24th March - DIY herb drying rack
Love What You Grow: Soft Fruit Care.
10am-1pm
Learn how to prune, train and propagate a simple range of soft fruit with confidence with the 10 Trees team. Learn and share practical tips on seasonal care, feeding and bed design - and gain hands-on practice in the 10 Trees forest garden. By the end of the morning you’ll have all the skills you need to shape your own new and established fruit bushes.
Build the garden.
10am - 1pm
We’re looking ahead to our first Open Garden event of the year in March, when we open the gates of 10 Trees wide for the community to explore the garden. Today’s work day will focus on preparing the space for this moment, making it welcoming and comfortable for everyone. We can choose from a little menu of activities, from dead hedge building to woodchip laying, depending on where your interests and energy lie. We’ll reward our efforts with hot soup and garden tea.
Hands in the soil: kitchen garden tending.
10am-1pm every Wednesday.
Join us to grow in community, tending to the needs of our beautiful kitchen plot, forest garden and orchard as the seasons unfold.
Some days may be harvesting for Open House kitchen, some may be building up the compost heap. It’s a great way to pick up all the skills needed to produce your own food.
Expect a warm welcome and a steaming bowl of soup for lunch.
Help renovate our perennial borders.
10am-1pm
The central flower borders on the main lawn at 10 Trees garden are magnificent when they are in full swing, perched against the stunning back-drop of Win Hill. This year they are calling for a re-imagining - bringing a naturalistic planting design flavour to the garden, with flowing patterns, contrasting structure and plenty of seasonal interest.
Join us to get hands on with this exciting renovation project. Beginners can learn the basics of perennial propagation, planting and care whilst seasoned ornamental gardeners will have plenty of opportunity to connect and learn from fellow enthusiasts!
This series of work days will culminate in an exciting Love What You Grow planting design workshop, where we share the learning and lessons from the project.
Open Garden.
10am-4pm
We’re opening the garden gate wide for the first of our Open Garden series this year - a day when everyone is invited to enjoy the garden in their own way and time.
Come discover the magic of 10 Trees - a mix of wild corners, tended beauty, wide open skies and heady vistas. Whether you’re a keen gardener, a local, or you’re just curious about the garden, come and spend time getting closer to nature.
You’re welcome to bring picnics and entertainment, and stay as long as you like whilst the garden is open. Bring your neighbours, friends and family too.
Wild Ground yoga walk @ 10 Trees.
9.30-10.30am
Join Kelly for a gentle, guided one-hour yoga walk, held at 10 Trees community garden - a chance to slow down, drop deeply into your body and connect with the earth.
This immersive experience weaves together mindful walking, dru yoga stretches, and forest bathing, inspired by the vast skies, abundant nature and expansive hills that make the garden such a special place of practice.
Fireside drum circle @ 10 Trees.
11am-12 noon
Join Matt round the 10 Trees campfire as we gather in rhythm and song to welcome the first day of spring, a moment when the emergent energy of the season deeply complements the powerful and inclusive music-making of community drumming.
Gather around the warmth of the fire to honour the dark months and call in the season of renewal with rhythm, connection and shared intention.
Elemental Voice vocalisation workshop @ 10 Trees.
12.30-1.30pm
Join Reya on a journey to reconnect with the web of life through body, heart, and voice.
Together we will slow down, listen deeply, and remember our belonging to the natural world. Through movement and sound, and with the aid of the elements, we’ll explore how our voices can be a bridge between our own inner landscapes and the living earth around us.
Love What You Grow: Naturalistic planting design
10am-1pm
Join the 10 Trees team to learn how to design and plan a naturalistic-style flower border. Expect practical tips on form and structure, year-round interest and planting for wildlife - and gain hands-on practice in the 10 Trees perennial borders. By the end of the morning you’ll have all the skills you need to shape your own beautiful flower beds.
10 Trees Open Table @ Open House.
10am-12pm Saturday 14th February
As part of Open House’s anniversary celebrations, we’re inviting everyone who has contributed to10 Trees this year to join us for a complimentary coffee and cake as a thank you for your support.
We'll also be making willow hearts - and everyone is welcome to join in and make a token for someone you love. Come find out what's going on in the garden this year!
No booking required.
Community Bed Build (2).
The National Trust has helped us build three beautiful hand-sawn raised beds at 10 Trees. They’re for the community to use. Can you help us get them ready for planting? Expect a steady, warming and purposeful work day that gets the blood flowing.
Movement is medicine, and fresh air a tonic - especially when it’s in service of the community. We’ll reward our efforts with hot soup and garden tea.
Community Bed Build (1).
The National Trust has helped us build three beautiful hand-sawn raised beds at 10 Trees. They’re for the community to use. Can you help us get them ready for planting? Expect a steady, warming and purposeful work day that gets the blood flowing.
Movement is medicine, and fresh air a tonic - especially when it’s in service of the community. We’ll reward our efforts with hot soup and garden tea.
Love What You Grow: Fruit Tree and Soft Fruit Pruning.
10am-1pm on Wednesday 4th February
Learn how to prune fruit trees and soft fruit with confidence in this lively, hands-on workshop. Understand the basics of pruning trees and shrubs, including tools and techniques - and practise in the 10 Trees orchard. By the end of the morning you’ll have all the skills you need to shape your own new and established trees and bushes.
Move. Make. Dream.
10am-1pm on Fridays.
Movement is medicine, and winter air a tonic. Offer your body the reset it needs with this series of warming, purposeful work days to get the blood flowing. Using our bodies at this time of year, approaching Imbolc, offers our minds space to brew dreams for the year ahead.
Each week we’ll contribute to a different task that prepares the garden for the warmer months, finding pleasure in the shared effort and visible progress. These work days are set in the wilder corners of the 10 Trees garden, where the civilised world fades and the more-than-human world creeps into our systems.
We’ll reward our efforts with hot soup and garden tea.
Homes for Trees.
10-1pm on Friday 28th November
Help create the first home for a new community tree nursery for the High Peak and Hope Valley.
National Trust rangers will lead a build day at 10 Trees garden to construct a small tree nursery of raised beds, paths and cloches that will house the acorns and other seeds we gathered at our Autumn Celebration and Seed Gathering in the Wild days.
If you want to work with your hands in the open air for a morning, or you want to support tree planting in the valley, please join us - and a bowl of delicious Open House soup will be on offer as a thank you.
Seed Gathering in the Wild.
10-1pm on Friday 21st November
Join National Trust rangers and the 10 Trees team on a very special seed hunt. Adventure into cloughs and wooded slopes to find a handful of the High Peak’s most beautiful and well-adapted trees and save their seeds for the future.
The seeds will help preserve the important qualities of these special trees, and in turn create a new generation of saplings with a hyper-local genetic blueprint. Trees planted from these seeds are more likely to be well-matched to the unique landscapes of the area, and so flourish.
The new trees will be grown on at 10 Trees, part of a new network of community tree nurseries for the High Peak and Hope Valley.
Love What You Grow: Composting Workshop @ 10 Trees.
2-4pm on Friday, 24th October.
Join us in the garden for a fun and feisty hands-on community composting workshop. We’ll use the bounty of natural resources available at 10 Trees garden to learn how to build a beautiful heap together, sharing our own successes and fails as we work. We’ll also hear about the science and practice of composting from a seasoned local grower. Bring a bucket to take away a little composting starter for your own heap!
Growers Circle: Community Tree Nurseries @ 10 Trees.
2-3pm on Sunday, 19th October.
Meet other gardening groups, conservationists, growers and people who care for nature to find out more about community tree nurseries and other practical ways you could grow trees and plants to help care for the landscape in the Peak District. Hear how the National Trust can support local groups wanting to get involved. We particularly want to gather people in Bamford and nearby areas to imagine what a community-wide tree nursery for Bamford might look like.
Slow Sunday: Autumn Celebration @ 10 Trees.
12-2pm on Sunday, 19th October.
Join us in the garden at 10 Trees for a joyful celebration of a mast year, a rare year of plenty when the trees hang heavy with a bumper harvest of fruits and seeds. Help collect and plant the first generation of trees which could help to create one of The National Trust’s first community tree nurseries in the Peak District. Take part in a community wassail, make an autumn wreath or crown to celebrate the mast and enjoy music and hot soup round the fire. Plant your own 10 Trees acorn to grow at home.
Apple Day @ 10 Trees.
12-4pm on Sunday, 28th September.
Join us in the garden at 10 Trees for a joyful celebration of Apple Day!
Our garden gates will be opening to the community for the first time for an afternoon of seasonal fun, community spirit, and late-summer abundance.
Love What You Grow @ 10 Trees.
12-4pm on Saturday, 27th September.
Whether you’re a seasoned grower or just getting started, come to the garden and find out more about growing from seed to plate and the new community collaborating to grow better food in the valley.
“Remember to listen to our intuitive selves, as we move into the active phase of the year. This alchemy … helps bring new growth into our lives.”
— Glennie Kindred