Hello all, It probably won’t come as a surprise we’ve taken the decision to postpone the festival due to the coronavirus pandemic. The new dates for your diary are Friday 17 and Saturday 18 July 2020 at Powderham Castle as usual. So, a summer festival for a change and at a time when we sincerely …
COMPETITION TIME! The Sharpham team is challenging you to use your love of cheese and knowledge of botanicals to come up with a delicious new flavour combination for Sharpham Rustic… to win some fantastic prizes! Rustic Original and Rustic with Chives & Garlic have been favourites for many years, but it’s time for a …
Single-use plastic, something most of us are doing our best to avoid or recycle, is a huge bane for gardeners. Due to the oversized nature of bulky plastic like plant pots, and the cost to haul it to processing plants in the North of England, a big proportion ends up in landfill. Few councils recycle …
The sun came out and more than 6000 gardeners flooded through the gates of Powderham Castle in Kenton near Exeter on the first Spring Bank Holiday weekend for broadcaster Toby Buckland’s sixth Garden Festival. Visitors came from as far away as Australia to watch The Earl and Countess of Devon cut the ribbon assisted by …
Hi, I’m Kim Watkins and I make pictures and beautiful things out of old and used paper and card. Up until five years ago it was very different, juggling work commitments with my need to create. I then plucked up the courage after being unwell, and gave up my job to work for myself full …
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Share in the passion of growing great tasting, exceptional vegetables with Joy Michaud of Sea Spring Seeds Joy Michaud has a passion when it comes to growing vegetables. Her view is, ‘ Why grow an ordinary vegetable when you can grow an outstanding one?’ At Toby’s Garden Fest she will be sharing this passion through …
Tina Parkes of the British Academy of Floral Art looks back at the origins of this fashionable festival headgear The flower crown is a hugely popular design, not only trending for weddings and festivals they have been featured this year on fashion catwalks and in fashion retailers, including White Stuff. So what is the inspiration …
It’s not every newsagent that sells gin but amongst the newspapers and sweets, Moretonhampstead newsagent Larry sells Britain’s favourite spirit. Unusual perhaps but Papillon Gin is made about two minutes walk from his shop and is the first and only gin distilled within Dartmoor National Park. It is a delicious delicate gin with citrus and …
