Courses: Preserving
Autumn Preserving Workshop
Sunday 10 October 2010
Select, create and bottle your own autumn flavours in the beautiful surroundings of Tresillian House, a magnificent Georgian manor house with a famous walled garden near Newquay in Cornwall.
Learn to make the most of seasonal produce by creating delicious preserves with leading experts Pam Corbin and Liz Neville.
On this one-day, fully catered course, you will learn about the art and skill of preserving using fruit, vegetables and herbs grown in our historic walled garden, one of the finest in the country. For more than 20 years, head gardener John Harris has practised his unique organic and moon gardening techniques here, producing fuller-flavoured, better quality, cheaper and less labour intensive produce.
The course covers a range of recipes, including a number from Pam Corbin’s bestselling book, Preserves. We will be exploring as many techniques as possible with seasonal produce that is available such as jams, jellies, chutneys, curds, cordials, vinegars and bottling. We also aim to show you how to make your own fruit liqueurs.
You will select seasonal produce from Tresillian’s gardens, including 100 varieties of Cornish apples, quinces, pears, plums, currants, tomatoes and berries, as well as squashes, beans, cabbages, onions and herbs.
The workshop runs from 9.30 am to 4 pm with breaks for tea and coffee as well as lunch prepared with produce from the gardens. There will be a short tour of the walled garden after lunch by John Harris himself.
Our October 2009 Autumn Preserving workshop at Tresillian House was featured in the April 2010 issue of Cornwall Today:
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How to Book
All workshops are priced at £65 with a discount for two or more places/workshops booked (£120 for two and £165 for three). Each workshop includes:
Please send a cheque in advance for the total amount to secure a place on each course.
Parking is available at Tresillian House.
For enquiries, contact us by phone on 077485 92225 or click here to email us.
Location
Not only are we 15 minutes by car from the airport but there is space to land a helicopter on the lawn! For all maps and coordinates, please visit our directions page.
Pam Corbin
Some Twenty years ago Pam and her husband bought a small jam making business called Thursday Cottage. Relocating the business to East Devon, they spent many years making a profusion of different award winning preserves. Having hung up her professional wooden spoon Pam, now teaches at River Cottage. In 2008 her first book Preserves was published as part of the River Cottage handbook series.
Liz Neville
Liz Neville started preserve making professionally some 10 years ago. Her company, Parrett Preserves, was formed when Farmers Markets began and there were a shortage of producers. More recently, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, founder of River Cottage, approachd her to produce "own label" products and during the past 3 years Liz has been co-presenting preserving courses at River Cottage together with Pam Corbin. You can meet Liz at local Farmers Markets or at farm shops where she does 'meet the producer days'. She still personally makes all the preserves at home either using their own organically grown fruit and veg. or locally sourced when necessary.
John Harris
John Harris is the Head Gardener of the Tresillian Estate which includes one of the last remaining working Victorian walled kitchen garden in the South West. He gardens in accordance with the phases of the moon, organic principles and the ancient principles of compatible planting. John is an author, speaker and broadcaster. He has written R J Harris’s Moon Gardening, now in its second edition and is a national horticultural speaker, garden consultant and designer. He appears regularly on Radio Cornwall and Radio Devon’s Sunday morning gardening phone-in programmes as well as on Radio 4 and other local radio stations. He has worked on BBC TV and ITV gardening programmes. John and the walled garden have been written about in a number of books, national and international media and other publications and he has also advised on historic horticulture for films. He is chairman of the Quintrell Downs Gardening Club, Chairman of Newquay Championship Show and Horticultural Adviser for the Cornish Women’s Institute. He is a silver medal winner at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. For further information see the website at www.coloradomoongarden.net