Brightling Environment Group – Great Green Garden Party 2026
Join Brightling Environment Group for an open garden at a very special private site. This year, Brightling Environment Group’s annual Green Garden Party is celebrating all things soil.
As well as offering a chance to explore a glorious private garden at a Grade II-listed site – the fruit of decades of work, packed with unusual shrubs, trees and perennials and with a productive orchard and vegetable patch – we will have lots of information and opportunities to learn about how to look after your soil and grow well in it without damaging the environment.
Local community-interest company SoilCraft will be talking all things compost, demonstrating how to improve fertility by building levels of vital soil microfauna and flora, and offering free, under-the-microscope analysis to anyone who brings along a sample of their own soil or compost, whether home-made, or shop bought.
BEG will have a stand devoted to plants that improve soil, and will be selling seed mixes suitable for adding fertility (and a spot of beauty!) to our local gardens and veg patches.
And as well as tea and home-made cake, there will also be an area devoted to clay and what you can make with it, with stalls selling work by local artisan potters, and a chance to get your own hands dirty at a pottery demonstration table. We’re looking forward to what will be an enjoyable and informative day – do come along!
Tickets are free, but because this is a private garden please book here to receive full details of the venue.