Hampshire Food Festival

Winchester Food & Produce Show is one of the highlights of The 2009 Hampshire Food Festival, which runs from 1 – 31 July. Throughout the month over 140 different events, held at dozens of venues across Hampshire, celebrate local food and farming.

Sign up to receive your free Festival programme at www.hampshirefare.co.uk or call 0845 6035638. This lists all event, lots of free prize draws to enter, money-saving Festival offers and information on places to stay.

During July’s Hampshire Food Festival join workshops and master classes in making sausages, jam, chutney and chocolate as well as bee-keeping and growing your own veg; hands-on cookery classes for adults and children; a smokery demo and tastings; vineyard, vegetable, lavender, cheese, water buffalo and organic farm tours; orchard, brewery and kitchen garden walks; summer BBQs and jazz, Hampshire hog roasts, wine tasting and beer festivals; gourmet dinners, cream teas and local lunches. Watch cookery demos by Hampshire chefs. 'Celebrity' chefs taking part include The Hairy Bikers, Rose Elliot, Atul Kochhar and Valentina Harris. Raymond Blanc has given his support by writing the foreword to the Festival programme.

Hampshire Food Festival visitors can win two nights dinner, bed and breakfast for two at the 4* Tylney Hall Hotel, a bespoke fruit and vegetable garden design worth £1500, a luxury hamper of Hampshire goodies or the opportunity to ‘Be a Brewer for the Day’ at Ringwood Brewery. Children have the chance to win an afternoon with the chefs at Hotel du Vin Winchester!

Hampshire Food Festival is organised by county food group Hampshire Fare, and supported by Hampshire County Council and SEEDA, plus Corporate Partners, Blake Lapthorn, Ecover UK Ltd, Festival Place Shopping Centre, Fuller Smith & Turner PLC, Newsquest Media (Southern) Ltd, Southern Co-operatives Ltd, Wave 105, and Corporate Friends Apollo Media, Greenhouse Graphics and The National Trust.