Over 700 people have helped continue the tradition of hand-picking apples from the orchard at the National Trust’s Killerton estate, in time to be pressed at Killerton’s Apple Festival on 13 and 14 October. Thanks to hundreds of helping hands they were able to pick approximately 6 tonnes of apples, ready for the start of the cider and apple making season.
The apples are harvested then pressed on a 200-year-old cider press during the event to make the estate’s award winning cider and apple juice, which people can see being made at the apple festival this weekend. Killerton is home...
THERE’S still a chance to snap up the last remaining tickets for a Devon music festival which takes place this month.
Now in its third year, the family-friendly Altitude Village Festival attracts a large local following and is beginning to make waves further afield with its commitment to bringing new, emerging independent and alternative music to the Blackdown Hills for all to enjoy.
Organisers have been thrilled with ticket sales to date and say that as they only have a handful of tickets left to sell, people need to buy them now to secure their chance to attend the event...
Join Toby Buckland and a host of gardening stars in the West Country this spring, (2&3 May) at Powderham Castle, near Exeter to see the very best of gold medal winning nurseries. Enjoy a spectacular display of extraordinary, unusual and beautiful plants with over 100 exhibitors showing across the Castle estate, children's gardening activities, food and craft stalls and live music to help create a garden party atmosphere.
Olympians are not the only Brits to win gold - the exhibitors at Toby Buckland's Garden Festival can boast over 100 RHS Gold Medals:...
