Autumn News & Events at Over the Rainbow

It feels like it’s time to wind down after a busy summer with the house bursting at the seams, but half term is fast approaching and we’ve still got a few events lined up for your autumn break.

There are places left on this year’s Vegan cookery weekend with Jane Easton: Everyday Vegan: Delicious Core Recipes & Cheatin’ Shortcuts 21-22 October - a great way to stock up on your vegan recipes. Read on for more details.

The next volunteering weekend ‘Slash n Burn’, will not only have the usual autumn tasks to tackle, but also we will be making a start on the walled garden. Arrivals will be on Thursday 26^th October working through to Monday 30^th October. All food and accommodation is provided, get in touch if you are interested in lending a hand.

The last Lazy Sunday Brunch of the year is on 15^th October, the early slots are already booked up but there is availability 1pm-3pm. With an abundance of autumn produce from the garden, you can choose from a delicious home grown menu for veggie and vegan options. Book a place here

There are two more Saturday morning yoga retreats with Rose Thorn: 14^th October and 18^th November, 10am-1pm followed by home cooked vegetarian lunch. Book a place here

Yoga Retreat at Imbolc. Recharge your batteries after the New Year, treat yourself to a four day retreat with Jenny Beeken, celebrating the festival of awakening – Imbolc. 1st-5th February 2018, download leaflet here

This year we will be closing at the end of November for our annual winter break – reopening for B&B on Friday 9^th February 2018.

Everyday Vegan: Delicious Core Recipes & Cheatin' Shortcuts
with Jane Easton 21-22 October

Have you recently become vegan and running out of recipe ideas for everyday cooking? Wondering what to cook for your vegan visitors? Spend a weekend stocking up on your vegan recipes on this practical and informative weekend workshop for ideas, confidence and resources on all things vegan.You will be eating what you cook! All ingredients, resources and equipment provided.

Led by Jane Easton - Food & Cookery Coordinator for Viva! and author of Viva! Vegan Cookbook Jane is a writer, campaigner and teacher whose role is to help people realise they can live really well on a plant-based diet. Her job at Viva! entails cooking; researching new products; teaching cookery via demonstrations to various age groups and audiences; writing recipes; contributing and maintaining the vegan recipe club as well as creating recipes for Viva! and Viva! Health guides.

"Fantastic place! fantastic course! fantastic meals! fantastic instruction! Jane was so knowledgeable"

New Website
After 10 years of sterling work, the old website has been put out to grass, replaced by a newer model happily compatible with mobile phones and tablets. The new site has a lot more pictures and the layout is quite different, so take your time having a look around.

Events and retreats are now listed on a dedicated page with it’s own diary and booking system.
News is now announced via the blog on the home page.
The diary/booking system is held on a third party site so I have less control over it, but it is automatically updated so always up to date. The tariff is now shown by each room on the booking page so you don’t have to switch between pages for prices and availability. Click on the dates you are looking for under ‘Check In’ essentially if the price shows next to the date/room it is available, if it is shaded in dark purple, it is not available.

There are now dedicated pages now for our garden produce: and a brief history of the estate

Those of you who have wondered around the land here may have noticed that there is an overgrown Walled Garden next to us, an old apple orchard and kitchen garden that used to supply the house with fresh produce.
The owner recently approached me to see if I was interested in taking it over, to cut a long story short, the garden will become part of Over the Rainbow in the next few weeks and a new project for the Slash n Burn weeknds

Take a look around Over the Rainbow in this short video

Dates for your Diary

The Walled Garden

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