welcome - from the Festival chair
As the Festival enters its 17th year, I am proud beyond words of what the Food Festival team accomplish every single year. Having been a volunteer at the Festival for a number of years, it has been a pleasure for me to take on the role of Chair and work with such a vibrant committee with many new members this year. It is this team full of great local people, with incredible talents and drive that make the Festival what it is today. Without them the Festival just wouldn’t exist.
It’s also been wonderful to see the Festival grow year after year, yet keep its individual and magical qualities. As a non-profit organisation, we are always looking at what we can do in our local community and our long-standing Children’s Day is something we’re intensely proud of, alongside our business start-up award that we launched in 2017.
The award encourages new
Business Start-Ups to come and join us so we can support them on their journey. So, I am going to be excited to taste the food delights of our winner, Plant Life (
www.theplantlife.org.uk) this year who serve up delicious plant based food with a naughty side they tell me!
Our single-use plastic free policy continues to grow and that is something we’re forever evolving to make sure we are doing all that we can. As the Festival takes place on the banks of the River Dart, we are continuing to play our part in tackling the growing environmental crisis caused by unwanted plastic. This year, we are striving further to increase our sustainability and beginning the journey to becoming a small part of the solution and not a bigger part of the problem. This year with your help, the Festival will again reduce the use of single use plastics and move towards 100% use of compostable cutlery, cups, plates and packaging. This will allow us to dispose of the inevitable food waste together with what we eat it with and from, in a greener way!
Sheila Shribman, Festival Chair 2019 © Original Image Photography
We are bringing back our successful Eat Your Words event which welcomes a host of inspiring experts, food writers and change making chefs who will open your mind to new ideas, fresh challenges and bust some myths along the way - I promise you. This year, we’re delighted to welcome back some friends, old and new; including Guy Singh-Watson, the man behind Riverford. Henry Dimbleby Founder of Leon and a National food strategy lead with DEFRA will also join us alongside Chef Tom Hunt and Slow Food Board Director Shane Holland and many more – you won’t want to miss these sessions.
We have lots of new and exciting things to look out for at this year’s event alongside the old favourites, including over 35 stall holders located in the thriving Old Market. For the first time in a while we are pleased to welcome our ‘Artist in Residence’, Emily Thomas to the Festival. She is a young, local talent and we’re delighted she has come on board – make sure you say hello as you see her around the Festival and we’ll be sharing her work online for you all to enjoy. We are also introducing this year our Monday Community Lunch – a new initiative to use up any surplus food from the Festival and have the local community enjoy it.
I would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Holly and David Jones - Manna from Devon (www.
mannafromdevon.com) who have been at
the heart of our Festival since we started. They have taken the decision to step down this year and will be so missed. But we are delighted to welcome a long term sponsor, Pipers Farm (
www.pipersfarm.com) to take up the mantle of our kitchen workshops this year – we can’t wait to see the results!
As ever, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to all our wonderful sponsors, patrons, chefs, volunteers and the brilliant organisers all of whom do so much to make the Dartmouth Food Festival such a special event.
Dartmouth is the perfect setting for what has been described as ‘a feast for the senses’ and I am very proud to be part of it. With incredible chefs such as Mitch Tonks, Mark Hix, Jane Baxter, Romy Gill and Matt Tebbutt among many others joining us this year, the stage is set for it to be our best Festival yet.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I know I am going to!
Check the official website for event updates and ticket info: 18 - 20 October 2019 |
dartmouthfoodfestival.com
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