Subject – Japanese Garden Design I was born in Singapore and lived in South-East Asia for 21 years. Following the 2009 financial crisis, I left a decade-long career as a property lawyer and retrained at Oxford in Landscape & Garden Design. After winning an RHS silver medal at BBC Gardener’s World Show Garden competition for […]
Cookery and Gardening Tutors
Cookery and Gardening Tutors
Karen Lawrence
Subject: Cookery I began teaching adults 20 years ago and before that, I taught Food and Nutrition in a secondary school. I have been teaching at Stoke Lodge for the last 5 years. I have offered a range of courses over the years, but one that always remains popular is Vegetarian Cookery – I have gathered […]
Ian Abrahams
Subject: Wine Appreciation I started my wine career taking visitors round Harvey’s wine museum in Bristol where I also studied for and passed the Wines and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma, a high level professional qualification. I now work as a freelance Wine Educator, certified by WSET to run their courses which are aimed at […]
Christine Pritchard
Subject/s: Gardening and Garden Design I worked as an under-gardener at Showerings in Shepton Mallet before going to horticultural college. In 1987 I came back to Somerset to start my own landscape design business. I received my MA in environmental policy and management from UWE, where I focused my dissertation on landscaping barn conversions. Following […]