Join Darts Farm and the Fish Shed guys for an unforgettable experience where you will be taken aboard a local fishing boat to fish for sea bass off the Jurassic coast.
You will be brought back to the Darts Farm cookery studio where the fisherman-chefs will show you how to prepare and cook this tasty local fish before tucking into a full fish supper together.
The day starts with breakfast at Darts Farm, followed by line fishing on the wrecks off the East Devon coast with brunch and a beer on board, then back to Darts Farm for tea and cake. A fish prepration and cookery...
Broadclyst Primary School and Killerton have partnered up once again to put on a show stopping performance of Keep Calm and Carry On! on the 13 and 14 June at 1.30pm and 4pm.
A play set in the days following the Exeter Blitz, Keep Calm and Carry On will explore life as an evacuee at Killerton House. The production will take place as a series of sketches performed by the year 5 class and will take place around Killerton's house and garden.
The storyline is based on Killerton’s evacuee schools during the war, researched and written by the children with the help of teachers...
To help celebrate Mole Avon Trading Limited’s 40th anniversary and their Ruby Appeal for Hospiscare, the company teamed up with Crediton Milling and together have raised £1,241 for the local charity.
During a four week period at Mole Avon’s retail branches in Axminster, Crediton and Okehampton for every bag of Layers Mash or Layers Pellets sold 50p would be donated to Hospiscare.
Crediton Milling, based at Fordton, Crediton is one of the few remaining family owned and run independent feed mills in the Westcountry and the have been supplying animal compound feed to Mole Avon...
With the popularity of The Great British Bake Off, Great British Sewing Bee our traditional crafts are experiencing a real revival. Add to this ‘shabby chic’ items available even on the shelves of DIY stores and Supermarkets.
But why buy mass produced when you can by handmade items each unique and with ability to have items made personally for you by many of our crafters.
This is our first event in Devon and due to popular request from lots of lovely, talented local crafters we are starting in Exeter. From toys to jewellery, cards to decorative items, and cakes to sweets. A...
Over 35,000 people enjoyed the 2012 season and the great news is that for 2013 we now have nine days jam-packed full of Arts, Music, Theatre and more.
As always we have an eclectic line up: Dust off your legwarmers and go back to your roots with 80’s Disco legends Odyssey.
Highlights from this year’s programme include The Zen Hussies and The Simmertones along with the return of Festival favourites, Souled and new crowd pleasers such as The Roving Crows and the legendary Rory Mcleod. There will be over 100 acts playing in Manor Gardens as well as the various fringe events...
“Transition” is the inspiration behind an exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in the grounds of Buckfast Abbey.
Eight Devon artists have been chosen and their imagination and ideas have been expressed in wood, resin, stainless steel and stone. Although smaller in number this year the works sit and breathe easily in open space and in the smaller gardens in the Abbey grounds.
The event is organised by Dartmouth Contemporary Arts. For more information email: mail@dartmouthcontemporaryarts.co.uk or visit the website www.dartmouthcontemporaryarts.co.uk
The Rose Festival and Cadhay Garden Fair is planned as the premier gardening event in the South West in 2013. Taking place in the magnificent grounds of Cadhay; by kind invitation of Rupert Thistlethwayte, come along between 10am and 4.30pm where there will be something for everyone who loves gardens and gardening.
Specialist nurserymen, garden suppliers and garden related arts and crafts will be available, while specialist Rose Growers will host a feature section in the walled garden of Cadhay, exhibiting their roses throughout the day. Watch displays and demonstrations presented...
The garden at 50 St Leonards Road is a long and narrow townhouse garden, shaded and busy, with a variety of fruit trees and bushes, flowering shrubs, wild flowers, and a small area of raised beds for vegetables. Open 2pm-5pm, admission by donation. Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access and no dogs allowed.
Directions to 50 St Leonards Road: St Leonards road runs from Magdalen road to Topsham road. Number 50 is on the right hand side going towards Topsham road, near the crossroads with Wonford road. This is close to the H bus route.
This secluded 0.5 acre garden is open to visit for the whole weekend.
Trees including eucryphia listed in Sidmouth Aboretum. Shrubs, herbaceous plants, alpines, roses and vegetables in raised beds. Also interesting sculptures and wood carvings.
Open 2pm-5pm, admission £2 and refreshments available. Wheelchair access limited. Dogs to be kept on leads.
Directions: On A357 Sidford to Sidmouth road, approx 500 yards after The Volunteer Inn, turn right up Victoria road through Glebelands to Sidlands. Also pedestrian access up lane from Station road opposite the high...
