Devon County Show - More local food and drink than ever before!

This year’s Devon County Show on May 19-21 at Westpoint, Exeter is championing local food and drink producers with a huge Food & Drink Pavilion packed with even more local food producers.

Visitors can shop for a meal or stock up the larder with the huge range of delicious goods on offer and enjoy a great snack or meal washed down with local beer, cider or fruit juice.

Show Secretary Ollie Allen said: “This element of the Show gets bigger and more popular every year. The Pavilion offers the most fantastic way to “taste and try before you buy” and because there is such a great selection of local producers all in the one place it really does make it a real pleasure to shop local.”

Among the top chefs and cooks in the cookery demonstration theatre is Merrilees Parker, a chef, food writer and TV presenter; she co-presented BBC Two's ‘Anything You Can Cook’ with Brian Turner and later became the resident cook on Housecall.

Joining the celebrity line-up is Adam Henson, one of BBC TV’s Country File presenters and a Cotswold farmer. He will be at the Show on Friday (May 20) and will be involved in a wide variety of activities including joining the Devon Young Farmers Clubs debate panel.   The subject of the debate this year is ‘Feed The Future’ – again food orientated and very topical at the moment.

Adam is passionate about native breeds of livestock and will enjoy a look at the National Show for Red Ruby Devon Cattle when around 100 of these magnificent animals will be exhibited at the County Show.

There will also be alpacas, the hugely popular bees and honey marquee, vegetable growing, a dog show, country skills demonstrations and traditional crafts.

In addition there is non-stop and traditional entertainment in six rings around the 92 acre showground. There’s family fun with the dare-devil Bolddog Lings motorcycle display team, a seven-a-side rugby tournament involving the rugby academies from Exeter, Plymouth and Truro, Titan the robot will be wandering the Avenues entertaining visitors with his great range of musical numbers (on Friday and Saturday), top show-jumping, scurry driving, axe racing, sheep racing, vintage tractors and steam engines, there is a great deal of enjoyment to be had.

Fun4Kidz, the very popular children’s feature, is bigger than ever and  bursting with hands-on activity for lively youngsters; everything from planting seeds to baking bread, colouring wellies, milking Daisy the cow with a difference, weaving willow wands, seeing chicks hatch, and petting Crealy’s tame animals.

Devon County Show is on May 19-21 at Westpoint, Exeter. Once again children go free on Saturday and, for the first time, this year senior citizens are eligible for the buy-one-get-one-free offer on all three days of the Show. Additional savings are available if tickets are bought in advance. To book and for more information, 01392 353700, info@dschow.org, www.devoncountyshow.co.uk

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