Join Arthur Cole and a member of our expert woodland team, as you are led through the gardens and woodland to the soundtrack of the birds waking up to the day. Take in the autumn leaf colours, discover the reasons behind their seasonal transformation and find out more about the life of our beloved trees.

Get unrivalled exclusive access to the gardens, culminating in breakfast in the Garden Café.

Join our Woodland Team for ‘A Day in the Woods’, where we shall explore the woodland living-networks and how to protect and conserve the wildlife that depend upon them, from placing birdboxes at different heights to making hibernacula for overwintering woodland creatures. We will touch on woodland craft and coppice hazel to make wattle fencing.

As part of your day in the woods, our Woodland Team guides you a workshop segment on how to make biochar and charcoal using a traditional ring kiln, which have been part of Somerset woodland management for centuries.

The day includes a seasonal lunch in the Garden Café.

We advise wearing appropriate footwear and sturdy clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.

Garden entry and lunch are included in the price. Age 16+ only.

Our Nursery Manager, Dominic McCartney, and the Nursery Team will lead you through a variety of propagation techniques for a range of different plants at the Avalon Nursery.

Before arriving at The Newt to assume his current role, Dominic had been a supervisor in the Royal Botanic Garden Kew’s Arboretum. He brings this experience and knowledge gained at one of the world’s leading gardens to the team, and this workshop to share it with you.

You will have access to Dominic and the team’s knowledge and experience and will learn to identify plants, determine the correct propagation technique for each and correct growing media, divide herbaceous material and take cuttings.

The workshop ends with a seasonal lunch in the Garden Café. Garden entry and lunch are included in the price.

Make sure you visit this weekend during apple harvest season, for one of our favourite events in the Estate calendar.

‘Apple Day’, which actually falls on 21 October - the Thursday before the weekend - was started in 1990 by Common Ground. Apple Day aims to raise “awareness not only of the importance of orchards to our landscape and culture, but also in the provenance and traceability of food” - these are philosophies that we at The Newt also hold dear. Plus, we really like an excuse to celebrate apples.

The weekend shall be a two-day celebration of all things apple; from juice pressing to apple games, displays, recipes, cyder tastings and tractor tours through the orchards. Expect live music and DJs, apple-themed menus as well as our ever popular hog roasting on a spit over fire for the carnivores!

Join us after the Apple Day festivities for our inaugural Apple Day Dinner. Hosted by Greg Carnell, Paul Ross and the cyder team, along with Head Beekeeper Paula Carnell sharing more our orchard management, it promises to be an indulgent evening celebrating our favourite crop with friends.

Expect an apple-themed tasting menu, live music, talks from the team and an open cellar to look around before and after the dinner.

Complimentary draught Gravity Cyder and Fine Cyder are included all evening, with our full range of cyders available to order.

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Welcome: Fine Cyder Smoked mackerel, three apples, estate seeded rye

For the table: Estate breads, butters, pickles Crushed beetroot, apple, parsley, Bath Blue, apple cyder vinegar Salad of autumn kales, roast Jerusalem artichokes, hazelnuts, apple brown butter dressing

To start: Burnt pumpkin soup, Yarlington Mill reduction, Ticklemore goats' cheese

To follow: Roast Tamworth pork, cavalo nero, potato, thyme and apple cake, Dabinett cyder apple and mustard sauce

To finish: Apple, damson and walnut crumble, Kingston Black custard