Come and visit
We love sharing our passion for plants , there are many ways to come and see what we are growing and the limitless things you can do and make with plants, from medicine to weaving a basket
Tomnah’a is a working Market Garden, so we’re not open to the public all the time, but throughout the growing season we offer a number of guided tours, Pick Your Own flower experiences, workshops and special events. Use the calendar below to see what’s on, and follow us on social media, or join our mailing list, to ensure you hear about the latest additions.
Accessibility Information
Most workshops take place outdoors on the farm, with covered space for rainy weather. The whole farm site is on a slope, though there is a more level, well drained dirt track from the vehicle gate to the events barn. The path from the top gate is quite steep and uneven. Some events, such as basketry, take place almost solely in the barn, but others make use of other parts of the site that are accessed by tracks and grassy paths.
The barn space contains wooden tables, chairs and benches, and we have chairs that can be moved around the field to give options for sitting during workshops. We have a composting loo on site which has a couple of steps up to it. The nearest flush toilets and accessible toilets are at Comrie Croft, which is about 150m away up a rough track. The car park is on a slope, but there are parking spaces at the top close to the Croft buildings, and the option for workshop participants to be dropped off at our vehicle gate, to avoid the steeper slope from the pedestrian gate.
If you are interested in attending a workshop but have further questions about accessibility, please do get in touch at info@tomnaha.com.
Songs by the Fire Workshop with Corrina Hewat
Come and sing with a world class tutor at the gorgeous market garden of Tomnah’a. Connect with the land through harmony singing by the fire, among the flowers and vegetables in the beautiful Perthshire countryside.
Corrina Hewat is a singer, harpist and composer, and widely recognised as one of Scotland’s most unique and innovative musicians. She is blessed with a stunningly beautiful and earthy voice, which resonates with years of soaking up Scotland’s musical tradition, while echoing jazz and contemporary elements.
Very much in demand as a teacher and educator; she is a core tutor on the Traditional Music Degree courses at Newcastle University and the RSAMD in Glasgow, and her sell-out workshops and courses on harmony singing, arranging and vocal techniques have proved to be a source of inspiration for countless singers and musicians.
Cost: £45 for the full day workshop
Coffee, tea and snacks will be provided. There will be a fire under cover for warmth. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch, or visit the Tea Garden café at Comrie Croft, which is just up the hill, serving delicious food!
Adventures in Plant Medicine: Roots and Fruits
Spend time investigating the riches of the hedgerows on the farm, and combining the fruits into a tasty syrup for keeping well over autumn and winter, as well exploring using vinegars for preserving autumn harvests. The workshop will include a walk to find and gather plants, information on plant ID and safe sustainable harvesting, practical remedy making and plenty of time to share experiences and ask questions.
Anna has many years of experience growing, harvesting and making her own herbal remedies for friends and family as well as running workshops for both adults and children, and is currently training to become a medical herbalist with the Plant Medicine School in Ireland.
Cost: £60 for the day including materials
Please bring something to write down what you learn and warm waterproof clothes to wear. We will mainly be outside or under cover.
Children are welcome on this day and we will have some activities for them too.
If you have mobility issues please contact us before so we can prepare the day to suit you.
Art in the Garden
Drawing in the Garden is a colourful and imaginative look at the plants, flowers, beasties and birds that are all around us in gardens.
Using chalk and oil pastels (and the occasional pencil) the class will use “micro-studies” and other techniques to build a series of detailed studies of their walks around Tomnaha.
Family Plant Medicine
Join herbalist Anna Kinross for a family-friendly introduction to plants and herbal medicine.
We will make some oaty bath bags, some bath fizzies, and a massage oil. Parents and children of all ages welcome, there will be plenty of space for play and exploring the garden through fun activities, as well as experiencing the sensory and tactile pleasures of working with the plants!
Anna has lots of experience of running workshops with families and the session will be relaxed and engaging, with opportunities for parents to ask questions and increase their skills and confidence in making and using plant medicines with their children too.
Each adult can bring a maximum of two children.
Art in the Garden
Drawing in the Garden is a colourful and imaginative look at the plants, flowers, beasties and birds that are all around us in gardens.
Using chalk and oil pastels (and the occasional pencil) the class will use “micro-studies” and other techniques to build a series of detailed studies of their walks around Tomnaha.
Nature Connection: Planting Seeds of Wonder
Do you remember the last time you felt a sense of awe or wonder? Maybe it was while looking out at a beautiful view, hearing a powerful piece of music, or witnessing someone do something very brave or courageous. How did it feel? Uplifting, energising, inspiring? Did you know that you can cultivate states of awe and wonder on purpose, simply using the way you pay attention?
University of Toronto researchers have found that awe directly lowers levels of inflammation, the main exacerbator of many chronic health conditions. Several studies show it relieves anxiety and depression, which is why some therapists are prescribing awe as a pathway to good physical and mental health. It widens the mind, making us see possibilities we didn't know were in reach.
The garden at Tomnah'a is the perfect place to plant seeds of awe and wonder, and watch them grow. The wide open sky, dazzling colours of flowers and plants, the many varied fruits, vegetables and leaves - all of these create a sensory landscape we can put to good use in developing our capacity for awe, wonder (and their near-cousin, delight!).
Lhamo Grace - yoga therapist, Transformational coach, yoga, mindfulness and self-compassion teacher - will lead this gentle yet inspiring day of meditation and creativity designed to stimulate states of mind that will uplift, refresh and inspire you.
No mindfulness or yoga experience required.
£50 for a full-day workshop. Tea/coffee and snacks will be provided. You can either bring a packed lunch or visit the Tea Garden cafe at Comrie Croft, where you’ll find a range of delicious lunch options!
Adventures in Plant Medicine: Leaves and Flowers
Explore the many wild foods and healing plants available to us in summer. The workshop will include a walk to find and gather plants (including a seasonal salad for lunch), information on plant ID and safe sustainable harvesting, practical remedy making and plenty of time to share experiences and ask questions. Anna has many years of experience growing, harvesting and making her own herbal remedies for friends and family as well as running workshops for both adults and children, and is currently training to become a medical herbalist with the Plant Medicine School in Ireland.
Cost: £60 for the full day’s workshop, including materials.
Please bring something to write down what you learn and warm waterproof clothes to wear. We will mainly be outside or under cover. Children are welcome on this day but must be supervised. If you have mobility issues please contact us before so we can prepare the day to suit you.
Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided. Feel free to bring a packed lunch, or to visit the Tea Garden café at Comrie Croft, which is just up the hill and serves delicious food.
Songwriting Workshop
Lhamo believes that if you have something to say, then you have something to sing, and that songwriting is for everyone.
Using the garden, the sky, the birds, the breeze and anything else that appears as inspiration, Lhamo will guide you on a songwriting journey to discover and create lyrics, melodies and harmonies and shape these into songs.
Lhamo is a singer, songwriter and community singing facilitator. She has been writing songs since she was a child. More recently Kenny Anderson of King Creosote asked if he could cover one of her songs, and she has written commissioned songs for individuals and businesses.
No songwriting, singing or musical experience, skill or knowledge required. Songs can be simple or complex, they can be very short or longer, they can be accompanied by instrumentation or they can be acapella.
Bring instruments if you wish, but they are not essential.
The simplest idea can become a song. Join Lhamo at Tomnah'a, and she will show you how! This will be a day of light-hearted fun, creativity and relaxation. Absolutely no pressure to perform or share your songs, though that will be encouraged for those who are keen and willing!
Tickets £25
Willow Basketry: Make a Garden Trug
Join basket weaver Norah Kennedy for the second of two excellent workshops, working predominantly with willow. In this workshop you will learn to make a garden trug, perfect for harvesting, foraging or carrying tools! Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided. You can either bring a packed lunch or visit the Tea Garden café at Comrie Croft, which is just up the hill and serves delicious food!
Cost: £70 for a whole day’s tuition and all materials.
Willow Basketry: Make a Round Basket
Join basket weaver Norah Kennedy on the first of two full-day courses, working primarily with willow. In this class you will learn to make a beautiful round basket with an asymmetric and a hazel handle. Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided. You can bring a packed lunch or go to the Tea Garden café at Comrie Croft, which is just up the hill, serving delicious food.
Cost: £70 for a full day’s tuition and all materials. The course will run with a minimum of five students.
Plant Sale
Visit the farm to stock up on vegetable and flower seedlings for your own garden or community project! We’ll be there, rehoming surplus from our big tomato plant-out, as well as a range of vegetable, herb and flower plugs and pots.
Getting Started in the Garden: a workshop for food growing
Are you an aspiring food grower, or a veg gardener who’d like to plan for year-round harvests? Perhaps you have started some seedlings off already this year, but aren’t sure what to plant as the season progresses.
In this half-day workshop, you’ll join Tomnaha growers Judith and Catherine, as they introduce topics such as crop planning, successional growing and how to feed and look after your soil. You’ll go away with a crop plan for your growing space for the season, whether it’s an allotment or a series of window-boxes! If you can bring a sketch of your growing space it will be helpful, but isn’t essential.
Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided.
Tickets £35/£20 unwaged/student/minimum waged
Make an Everlasting Flower Wreath
Using flowers, seed heads, grasses and leaves we have dried over the summer from our flower field, learn how to create a beautiful wreath made with birch or willow and filled with the abundance from the garden, these wreaths last for years so a great present for someone or to have indoors to brighten up your home.
We make these wreaths the special Tomnah’a way which means they are completely biodegradable if they do come to the end of their life.
All tools and materials are provided including refreshments
Adventures in Plant Medicine- Fruits and Roots
The third of three hands-on, practical days of gathering and making tasty food and effective remedies using the plants growing seasonally at Tomnah’a and around Comrie Croft. Each workshop will include a walk to find and gather plants, information on plant ID and safe sustainable harvesting, practical remedy making and plenty of time to share experiences and ask questions.
Anna has many years of experience growing, harvesting and making her own herbal remedies for friends and family as well as running workshops for both adults and children, and is currently training to become a medical herbalist with the Plant Medicine School in Ireland.
The Autumn session will look at fruits and roots - syrups, vinegars and other tasty remedies
Spend time investigating the riches of the hedgerows on the farm, and combining the fruits into a tasty syrup for keeping well over autumn and winter, as well exploring using vinegars for preserving autumn harvests.
Please bring something to write down what you learn and warm waterproof clothes to wear. We will mainly be outside or under cover.
Children are welcome on this day and we will have some activities for them too.
If you have mobility issues please contact us before so we can prepare the day to suit you.
Follow this link to book
Qigong in the Garden
Qigong is a soft and relaxing ancient Chinese art of working with and cultivating energy (qi). Qigong has many benefits, it can increase energy, agility and flexibility, loosen and strengthen joints and muscles, rejuvenate body, mind and spirit and is relatively easy to learn.
Practicing qigong outside in a garden space like Tomnaha enables us to tap into the elemental forces of nature such as earth, air, and water. The workshop will provide an opportunity to learn some basic qigong movements and exercises used to stimulate qi for better health and wellbeing.
Dave Macdonald practiced Tai Chi for over 20 years before moving to Qigong, focusing mainly on the Shibashi, Ji Ben and Self-healing forms. He has held Qigong courses in Comrie and district for over 8 years and also Zoom classes during the two Covid years.
Suitable for beginners and refreshments will be available at the end.
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Drawing in the Garden
With artist Liz Kemp Drawing on the Garden : A two hour immersive drawing experience in Tomnaha Market Garden
Make a Willow Basket
On this one day course Norah will take you through step by step on how to make your very own basket with different weaves and an asymmetrical border with an unusual hazel handle. We will be using willow grown on the Somerset levels. All tools and material are provided – all you need to being is enthusiasm.
Norah has been making and teaching baskets making for over thirty years. She loves to share her skills with others at willow weaving workshops, see more of her work here
Hot drinks and refreshments will be provided as well as a delicious, seasonal, plant-based lunch provided by Charlies Slow Bakes.
