Radical Bakers Harvest Camp 2025

Thursday 11th September until Sunday 14th September 2025, Crabapple Community, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Our solar-powered celebration of the abundance of the Harvest! Great bands on the Green Dragon Stage and focused workshops sharing knowledge and skills for a more sustainable life. Connect with a like-minded community of people who want to develop their self-reliance. We pride ourselves on looking after and including everyone. If you have any questions not covered on our Info page, please email radicalbakersgathering@gmail.com

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Our Real Ale and Cider bar is the Baker’s Arms. We offer fully catered tickets, providing hearty vege/vegan meals throughout the weekend. Everyone is welcome to cook (whatever they like) on gas in their camp and you can stay from Thursday noon to Monday 2pm. The campsite has working composting toilets, fresh drinking water and one hot shower. We have a large central fire and a drying rack by the pizza oven if it is wet. The entire event is powered by the Green Dragon Solar Generator and we recycle everything we can. We have lots of space for tents and campervans and a beautiful setting at Berrington Hall.

These were the workshops in 2024!

Download a copy of the Harvest Camp 2024 Timetable HERE.

Green Technology

• Blake Sanders from Green Dragon – Blake will be offering a variety of courses throughout the weekend. Course options include Reclaiming Lithium Cells from disposable devices, Basic Low Voltage Battery Electrics and Safety: wiring up LED lights for beginners or Larger Scale Solar Power Installation for people who want to install their own solar power. See the full course list HERE.
• Andy Alder – DIY Hydroponics from Reclaimed Materials: Build your own hydroponic system using easily found, cheap and free items.
• Stu Watson – Gas Digesters: Stu will explain the practicalities of building and maintaining a gas digester, demonstrating a large one at Crabapple.
• Dave Hayhurst – Basic Auto-Mechanics.
• Angie and Andy Polkey – Intro to Permaculture and Forest Gardening.
• Jane and Seggy Segeran – The Rocket Stove Race!

Textiles

• Sarah Bracken – Sarah will be running the Textiles tent with a full program of workshops including Felting, Crochet, Macrame, mindful slow-stitching and more.
• Lisa Moomin – The Art of Crochet with guided instruction from the Moomin-Mama.
• Sophie DePas – Needlepoint: Learn the basics of needlepoint and create your own designs.
• Sandra Jones – Wet Felting.
• Cat Anson – Bramble Crown Weaving!

Crafts and Nature

• Kirstin Alexander – Introduction to Veteran & Ancient trees.
• Hamilton Smith – Hamilton will be teaching Willow Basket Weaving (these sessions are always popular).
• Joey from Merched Y Berllan – Orchard Management, tree pruning, fruit harvesting.
• Sara from SMPTree – Upcycling Paper: Weave waste paper into functional and striking containers.
• Mark Bright – Green Woodworking: Making Spoons and Spatulas from green wood.

Self-Care

• Ryan and Catherine from Knight-Fox Wild About Learning – Wild Plant Herbal First Aid and Tool Sharpening.
• Jen from Kindred Roots CIC – Hedgerow Kombucha and Lactofermentation workshops. We will make “hedgerow kombucha” – a fermented tea drink with added hedgerow herbs, and explore lactofermentation techniques for preserving surplus fruit and veg.
• Eleri from Healing Earth – Plant Medicine and Herbal Medicine Foraging.
• Laura from Flowertwist Fitness – Morning Yoga sessions.

Community

• Andy Alder – Sustainable Businesses: Learn strategies for transitioning towards a more sustainable, lower-cost, and lower-impact lifestyle.
• Jinny Sanders – Bulk Bread Baking Sessions and the Radical Bake-Off!: Participate in group bread baking sessions and compete in the bake-off!

Take a look at past workshops in our Workshop Archives.

Live Music

We are proud to host the Green Dragon Solar Stage with live entertainment all weekend. Our stage uses quality modern equipment, is operated by experienced sound technicians and is powered from the Sun.

This is the Line-up for The Green Dragon Solar Stage at Radical Bakers Harvest Camp 2024

Thursday
• 21:00 My Mate Dave are an acoustic female fronted four piece, combining upcycled folk, vaudeville, pop and close harmony. They play banjo, uke, fiddle and flute with four voices. Their music is mostly self-written and they draw influences from gypsy folk to 70’s glam rock and back again, with a nod to balladeers and minstrels of times past on the way. The result is an interesting mix of original music, with a few reworked familiar songs, some as acapella pieces with four part harmony.
• 22:00 Lunabarge – a double-stomping, energetic, uplifting, indie-folk duo. Armed with banjo, guitar, ukulele, 2 voices and 2 stomp boxes, they like to find the little things in life that make it worth living and encapsulate them in their catchy original songs.

Friday
• 20:00 Johnny Kowalski and his Sexy Friends – Video from 2023 inc Spoons…



• 22:00 Muddy Summers and the DFWs. Doombox: youtube.com/watch?v=Uf1sYEqnvuk Get off my tits!: youtube.com/watch?v=X3UQNo0WrxM 2023 album on Bandcamp: muddysummers.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-seeds

Saturday
• 19:00 Witan Tree – Shropshire based folk group, their repertoire embraces Shropshire related themes, songs of country life and songs of myth and mystery.
• 21:00 The Refreshers – feel-good 80s, Ska and other up-tempo dance music!

Sunday
• 20:00 The Long Wrangler – Cowboy Comedy
• 21:00 Radical Bakers Cabaret then Open Mic and Sing-along…

Take a look at past bands in our Music Archives.

Download a copy of the Harvest Camp 2024 Timetable HERE.

We have our Camp Market each lunchtime, where everyone is welcome to sell their hand-made or second-hand items. We will be baking all the bread for the Baker’s Arms Café on-site and you can get involved in the baking sessions. There is always lots to do along with a line-up of quality bands. Take a look at the sort of things we have in our Workshop Archives.

Catering

We cook so you don’t have to, relax and enjoy the workshops and entertainment with fully catered tickets. The Baker’s Arms Café Meal Ticket is either Thursday evening or Friday evening until Sunday evening. It includes breakfast, lunch and whatever you call your evening meal, unlimited tea and coffee from 8am to 6pm, cake in the afternoon and a Wood-fired Pizza for the Sunday evening meal. You can also pay for meals and drinks in cash or by card (or cook whatever you like on gas in your campsite). Please bring your own pint pots and teacups, bowls, plates and cutlery. There is a washing up station with hot water. The bar has several real ales and ciders, wine and craft gins. More details of the fully catered option Here.

Buy tickets for Radical Bakers Harvest Camp 2025.

Radical Bakers Harvest Camp, 11-14th September 2025 Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Pay securely with credit or debit cards through Paypal, you do not need an account. Ticket prices include booking fees, car parking, camping and access to all the workshops and entertainment. Contact us by email: radicalbakersgathering@gmail.com if you have any questions not covered on our Info page. Please read the Terms and Conditions & Safer Spaces policies before buying tickets and be sure you can agree to them. We are trying to reduce the impact of travel to our events, so please share lifts via our Facebook Group or Google Document.

There are only 75 adult places for Harvest Camp 2025. We keep our gatherings small and friendly. There are no day tickets or tickets on the gate. Click ‘add to basket’ once for each ticket required and then click ‘view basket‘ to checkout.