An announcement from Brightling Environment Group

Brightling Environment Group’s main event of summer 2026 is on Saturday 20th June: the annual Green Garden Party. This year, the party has moved a mile or so along Brickyard Lane, to the beautiful gardens and woodland at Grade II-listed Brightling Place.

While last year’s event took gardening for invertebrates as its theme, this year we are celebrating a different strand of sustainability: soil and soil health.   

As well as offering a chance to explore a glorious and super-fertile garden – the fruit of decades of work, packed with unusual shrubs, trees and perennials and with a productive orchard and vegetable patch – we will have lots of information and opportunities to learn about how to look after your soil and grow well in it without damaging the environment. 

Local community-interest company SoilCraft will be talking all things compost, demonstrating how to improve fertility by building levels of vital soil microfauna and flora, and offering free, under-the-microscope analysis to anyone who brings along a sample of their own soil or compost, whether home-made, or shop bought.  

Brightling Environment Group will have a stand devoted to plants that improve soil and will be selling seed mixes suitable for adding fertility (and a spot of beauty!) to our local gardens and veg patches. 

And as well as tea and home-made cake, there will also be an area devoted to clay and what you can make with it, with stalls selling work by local artisan potters, and a chance to get your own hands dirty at a pottery demonstration table. We’re looking forward to what will be an enjoyable and informative day – do come along! 

Great Green Garden Party 2026: 20 June 2026, 11am-4.30pm. Entry is free, but places are limited. To book a ticket and for full event details, please visit our Eventbrite booking page