HERITAGE WOOD CRAFTS

We’re introducing a NEW zone for 2021, Heritage Wood Crafts where you can see a variety of artisan craftspeople at work, creating garden sieves and riddles (pictured above by Steve Overthrow), plant supports, garden brushes and skeps – all by hand and from natural materials. 

Country gardener talks

For 2021, all our expert garden talks will be held in and around the Country Gardener Tipi, adjacent to the Castle lake, where visitors can sit or stand socially distanced in a well-ventilated space with open sides. Talks so far confirmed cover popular topics, including roses, succulents, herbaceous perennials, rewilding, vegetable growing and gardening organically.

sharpham cheese & Wine

Greg and Nicky Parsons, owners of award-winning Sharpham Cheese, are creating a cheese, wine and coffee area where you can sample delicious artisan goodies handmade by the team on the Sharpham Estate, at Ashprington, near Totnes, and get advice on cheese and wine pairings, and for the foodie-curious more unusual cheese and coffee pairings. Not to be missed!

getting around the fest

The Festival land train, provides a FREE hop-on/hop-off service around the festival site. The route takes you from the entrance gate at the top of the driveway, past the exhibitors, barn and lakeside food exhibitors, and up to the castle courtyard and back again, in a trip lasting roughly ten minutes. 

Plus, we also have the castle’s tractor-train ferrying visitors from the car parks to the entrance gate for those who don’t want to walk the five minutes along the picturesque deer park lane. (Costs £1 to the castle.)

For visitors need a bit of extra help around the site, you can also book a wheelchair or scooter in advance here.

tunes to eat your picnic by!

We’re delighted to welcome back the young local talent represented by Mama Pik, including acoustic musicians, folk singers and guitarists.

The fabulous ukulele band, Sunny Side Up (pictured above), are also set to return for both days of the festival playing a range of old favourites.

And if you’re eagle-eyed you may spot the Higher Beings, posing as box plants among the shrubbery, ready to leap out on the unsuspecting! You can’t miss them when they trade their plant costumes for stilts, to stride around the site and pose for sky-high selfies with visitors.

fabulous flower crown

Don’t miss the chance for a selfie with the Giant Floral Crown, created by the talented folk from the British Academy of Floral Art, and displayed – all 5ft of it – in the Castle Courtyard.

Plus, there’s a chance to win a voucher for a floral workshop to learn some nifty flower-arranging skills of your own at the festival.

Find out more about the crown’s construction and what gave us the inspiration for the floral feature – clue: it’s someone special’s birthday on 12 June! – here.