Festival of Flavours at RHS Gardens

Join us for a celebration of growing and cooking, with live cookery demos, edible garden tours, food markets and expert advice on growing your own – a true feast for your senses!

At Festival of Flavours, pick up fresh ideas and ingredients to spark your culinary creativity

Celebrate growing and cooking

Few things connect people quite like growing plants and cooking, so each autumn we celebrate both at RHS Festival of Flavours.

Get inspired by live cookery demonstrations from top chefs and foodies, including The Great British Bake Off 2019 winner, David Atherton at RHS Wisley and RHS Harlow Carr, and TV chef and writer Ching-He Huang MBE at RHS Bridgewater. They’ll share recipes ranging from Chinese and Mauritian to vegan and whole food, helping you create delicious dishes using ingredients picked fresh from the garden.

Browse food markets and meet local producers and growers to grab something to eat and talk about their produce. Our RHS advice teams will be on hand to answer all your questions, and there’s the chance to take tours of our edible gardens and get tips about growing your own ingredients.
Sheila Das, Garden Manager at RHS Wisley, will share the benefits of growing healthy food at home

RHS Garden Wisley

9 – 13 October 2024

The 2024 Festival of Flavours will end in style at RHS Garden Wisley with a series of exciting cooking demos and talks. Learn about our approach to growing food in the World Food Garden, including why we adopt no-dig gardening. Discover how improving soil health can boost the nutrition of your food, and hear how Tudor history has influenced the rum and gin of Hampton Court Gin.

Festival of Flavours at RHS Wisley
Don’t forget to bring along your own apples and our experts will identify the variety

RHS Garden Rosemoor

5 – 6 October 2024

At RHS Garden Rosemoor, food writer and grower Mark Diacono will show you how to mix up cocktails and Tineke Cooks Cookery School will guide you through delectable seasonal recipes. Take time to explore our iconic orchards and then head to the apple marquee and enjoy apple displays, tastings and pressing demonstrations. Keep an eye out for stilt walkers, and don’t miss impressive demonstrations of forestry logging using heavy horses.

Festival of Flavours at RHS Rosemoor
Be inspired by the Global Growth Vegetable Garden at RHS Hyde Hall

RHS Garden Hyde Hall

4 – 6 October 2024

Enjoy a wonderful autumn day out at RHS Garden Hyde Hall. Excite your palate with live cookery demonstrations by our very own RHS chefs. Take a tour of the Global Growth Vegetable Garden with the horticultural team and celebrate the harvest season with eye-catching displays of fruit, vegetables and autumn flowers in our RHS Autumn Competitions.

Festival of Flavours at RHS Hyde Hall
Kids can enjoy traditional storytelling about the Chinese Festival of the Moon

RHS Garden Bridgewater

13 – 15 September 2024

At RHS Garden Bridgewater, Ching-He Huang MBE and Harwoods Patisserie, finalist of Bake Off: The Professionals 2023, will share tips to help you cook up delicious food using ingredients picked fresh from our Kitchen Garden. Don't miss the chance to discover the beauty and colour of chrysanthemums from regional growers at the Early-flowering Chrysanthemum Show. Feeling inspired? Celebrate the Chinese Festival of the Moon with traditional storytelling and a tea ceremony.

Festival of Flavours at RHS Bridgewater
David Atherton, The Great British Bake Off winner 2019, will share recipes at RHS Harlow Carr and RHS Wisley

RHS Garden Harlow Carr

7 – 8 September 2024

Get ready for a weekend of not-to-be-missed live chef demonstrations. Tempt your taste buds by browsing food and drink stands offering everything from Yorkshire-made gin to grow-your-own mushroom kits, all set in the beautiful surroundings of RHS Garden Harlow Carr. Take Kitchen Garden tours and bring your kids to our cookery workshops with Malton Cookery School. Need a rest after that? Relax with live music next to the Old Bath House.

Festival of Flavours at RHS Harlow Carr

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