Upcoming Events

Join us at Updown for a workshop with our wonderful gardener Rachel Clark as she teaches us to build and weave garden structures to support our climbers, roses, vegetables and sweet peas this year.

Before joining the team at Updown, Rachel was Senior Gardener at Walmer Castle and managed all the Kitchen and Cuttings gardens. Since joining us last year, Rachel has built and planted a new kitchen garden, reinstated the orchard and meadow, ringed the property with ‘dead hedges’, and generally sorted out the sprawlingly beautiful gardens here.

Rachel will be using a range of natural materials from the Updown garden including hazel, lime and beech. She will demonstrate a few different sized structures and their uses, and everyone will make their own support for a potted Clematis.

The session will include:

– Refreshments on arrival and throughout the day

– a tour of the garden to see structures in situ

– demonstrations and tutorial

– a potted plant to take home with you

– a three course lunch in the beautiful garden restaurant

Availability for this workshop is very limited. Tickets are £110 per person and available to buy online using the booking link below.

Join us for an Easter egg hunt around the garden and grounds at Updown.

This event is designed for under 12s and children should be accompanied by and adult on the hunt.

Please note this is not a booking for lunch. If you would like to join us for lunch please book a table separately.

Join us for an Easter children’s party at Updown.

Please note this isn’t a booking for lunch, if you would like to join us for lunch please book separately.

We’ll have a variety of activities, with a bouncy castle in the barn, egg painting and biscuit decorating. The suggested age for the party is toddler up to around 8 years old. This is not a crêche facility and children do need to be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Please book a ticket for each child attending. This is a drop in event so come any time between 12 and 3.

We are also open for lunch in the restaurant. If you would like to join us, please book a table separately.

On Saturday 26th April, the fiery island flavours of Soho’s Paradise and Dom Fernando will take over the kitchens of Updown. With a menu inspired by his Sri Lankan heritage, Dom’s menu will celebrate the best of British and Sri Lankan produce for a contemporary twist on Sinhalese cuisine

All dining is for communal tables and everyone will be served together, with guests invited to sit from 7pm and dinner served from 7.30pm. Tickets are £65 per person including a welcome drink.

Join us for a Spring children’s party at Updown. We’ll have a variety of activities including biscuit decorating and wreath making, along with a bouncy castle and soft play in our beautiful gardens.

The suggested age for the party is toddler up to around 8 years old and children do need to be accompanied by an adult at all times.

This is a drop in event so come any time between 12 and 3pm.  Please book a ticket for each child attending – there is no need to book tickets for accompanying adults.

There will be meals, snacks and drinks available to order on the day.

Please note this isn’t a booking for lunch. If you would like to join us for lunch before or after please book separately here

Rounding out the series on Saturday 10th May is Rose Chalalai Singh of KOYN Thai who will bring the comforts of home-style Thai cooking to the Kent countryside. Drawing inspiration from the North, South and Central provinces of Thailand, Rose’s menu will reflect cherished childhood memories of her time spent growing up in Bangkok.

All dining is for communal tables and everyone will be served together, with guests invited to sit from 7pm and dinner served from 7.30pm. Tickets are £65 per person including a welcome drink.

Join us at Updown for a one off event with our wonderful gardener Rachel Clark as she teaches us to build and weave garden structures to support our climbers, roses, vegetables and sweet peas this year.

Before joining the team at Updown, Rachel was Senior Gardener at Walmer Castle and managed all the Kitchen and Cuttings gardens. Since joining us in 2023, Rachel has built and planted a new kitchen garden, reinstated the orchard and meadow, ringed the property with ‘dead hedges’, and generally sorted out the sprawlingly beautiful gardens here.

Rachel will be using a range of natural materials from the Updown garden including hazel, lime and beech. She will demonstrate a few different sized structures and their uses, and everyone will make their own support for a potted Clematis.

The session will include:

– Refreshments on arrival and throughout the day

– a tour of the garden to see structures in situ

– demonstrations and tutorial

– a potted plant to take home with you

– a three course lunch in the beautiful garden restaurant

Availability for this workshop is very limited. Tickets are £110 per person and available to buy online using the booking link below.

Updown Farmhouse and Eat & Mess bakery have joined forces for a Spring workshop, celebrating the best of seasonal ingredients to create some of our signature baked goods for you to take home and enjoy.  Alongside lots of technical guidance in baking perfect recipes, you will also learn how to decorate a whole layer cake from stacking and crumb coating, to piping and palette knife finishes. Inspired by Updown’s gardens, we will also be showcasing how to use foraged garden ingredients safely to create beautifully decorated cakes.

This class is perfect for all skill levels and will last approximately 3 hours.

Suitable for adults and children 12 and over (but they will need to be accompanied by an adult.)

Unfortunately, we will be unable to accommodate allergens.

Join us for a Teddy Bears Picnic followed by a treasure hunt around the gardens and woods at Updown. We’ll also have a variety of activities including decorating teddy bear biscuits, face painting and games for the children.

Just book tickets for the number of children you’re bringing, and come any time between 12 and 3pm!
This event is designed for under 12s and children should be accompanied by an adult on the hunt.
Children tickets include a child’s picnic lunch.

Donate your old teddy bear to a children’s charity:  While most of us have had a teddy bear gifted to us in our childhood years, unfortunately some children aren’t that lucky. Use this day to bring a smile to another child by bringing along an old teddy bear (or even a new one!) for us to donate to a children’s charity.

Please book a ticket for each child attending the Picnic.

Please note, this is not a booking for lunch. If you would like to join us for lunch, please book a table separately here

Join us for some Family Fun: Forage, Cook & Draw workshop at Updown led by Lucia Stuart from the Wild Kitchen.

We will forage our botanical ingredients from Updown’s wonderful garden & surrounds to use. Make your own lavender lemonade, hedgerow salad or rose ice cream then colour and draw your own Wild Cooking recipe poster to take home.

This will be a special creative day of foraging foodie fun for children and families of all ages.

Includes a 3 course lunch in our charming pergola restaurant.