Stallholders at Ellesmere Food Festival

Ellesmere will be holding it’s food and drink festival over the weekend of 19th and 20th of June, this coincides with Fathers Day enabling families to come together and enjoy the food, drink and events in and around the Ellesmere area. A not-for-profit food and drink festival.

The Festival is in the Town at the Market Hall and the Town Hall and is open from 10am until 4pm both days.

Gwen from Pigs in Clover with a porker

Come and enjoy a delicious home-made cream tea with the rare breed pigs at Pigs in Clover, Cardeston Near Shrewsbury. You can enjoy your tea in the garden, and then walk around the pig pens and meet the rare breed pigs. There are seven breeds to be seen, Saddlebacks, Gloucester Old Spot, Large Blacks, British Lops, Berkshire, Tamworth and the very curly coated Mangalitza’s.
 
Scarlett, the celebrity pig will meet and greet all the guests, as she’s back home from her recent TV appearances on Britain’s Got Talent, Pet Nation and The Alan Titchmarsh show. She’s been busy visiting local schools, and she even accompanied Emma Thompson up the red carpet at the World premiere of Nanny McPhee.
 
Tickets cost £7 for adults, £3 for children, and a family tickets at £20 covers 2 adults and 3 children.
 
The event is to help raise funds for the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, who will receive  £1 from each ticket sold. The ticket price includes tea, and meeting all the pigs. We’ll be barbequeing rare breed sausages, and Toot Sweet Confectionary Emporium are providing a traditional sweet stall and ice cream.
www.pigsinclover.co.uk

Delicious local beers will available to taste while you enjoy live music and great company. www.fordhallfarm.com

Enjoy afternoon tea with Scarlett the curly-haired pig and help raise funds for Rare Breeds Survival Trust. Held in Cardeston, Shrosphire.  www.pigsinclover.co.uk