Darts Farm

Halloween Party For Little Terrors

Event Date: 
29/10/2013 - 5:00pm to 30/10/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter

A spooky teatime party in the haunted Darts Farm tepees!

Put on your best Halloween fancy dress and join Darts Farm for their Halloween party in the haunted Tepees. Take part in spooky games and fun activities. Pick your free pumpkin fresh from the Darts Farm field and enter it into the pumpkin carving competition and prepare yourself for lots of treats, a delicious sausage and mash supper and marshmallow toasting!

Tuesday and Wednesday, 5pm-7.30pm.

Price: £12.50 per child (parents welcome to accompany child)

Age: four to 12 years

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Spookley at Darts Farm

Event Date: 
28/10/2013 - 2:00pm to 30/10/2013 - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Darts Farm, Topsham, Exeter

Meet Spookley, a square pumpkin in a round pumpkin patch world at Darts Farm this October.

Children aged four to 12 are invited to spend a fun-filled afternoon on the farm, learning about pumpkin growing and enjoying the story of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, who overcomes bullying through showing kindness to others and making new friends along the way. As you take a walk around the pumpkin patch, children can pick their own pumpkins to decorate in the Darts Farm Teepees and enjoy a range of pumpkin treats and refreshments.

Monday to Wednesdasy, 2pm-4.30pm

Tickets £3...

Sunflowers help raise funds for Hospiscare at Darts Farm

Each year Darts Farm in Topsham grows a beautiful field of sunflowers for customers to pick in return for a donation to Hospiscare. This year the fantastic weather has made for a bumper crop, allowing Darts Farm to raise more money than ever before for the local charity.

So far, over £2,600 has been raised for Hospiscare and there are still plenty of sunflowers left for people to pick or to buy in store. For a map of the farm and instructions on how to pick your own, please visit the farm shop.

Once the sunflowers die down, they are left in the field as feed for local birds...

Devon Air Ambulance Trust 21st Birthday Weekender

Event Date: 
07/09/2013 - 10:00am to 08/09/2013 - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Darts Farm near Topsham Exeter

To celebrate our 21st birthday we will be holding our 21st Birthday Weekender at Darts Farm on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September.

During the day there will be a free entry fun day for all of the family including visits from our helicopters (subject to operational duties), an emergency services demonstration, featuring our crew, Devon & Somerset Fire Service and South Western Ambulance Service. There are also events where you can buy tickets to attend over the weekend: Saturday:

10am to 1pm - Be in the audience for BBC Radio Devon's JG's Saturday morning show. Tickets: £...

Celebrity Chefs help Lesley to raise cash for Hospiscare

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Mon, 06/03/2013 - 2:21pm

An apron featuring the signatures of 14 celebrity chefs will be raffled at Darts Farm on 15 June to raise money for a local charity.

Plucky Lesley Weeks from Exmouth contacted the world-famous chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Paul Hollywood and Heston Blumenthal, in September last year after she signed up to complete a 450k cycle challenge across Vietnam and Cambodia.

This will be the fourth fundraising adventure Lesley, resident hairdresser at Hospiscare, has embarked upon since 2007, raising more than £23,000 for the charity she has worked for over the last...

Record breaking year for Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink

More people than ever visited the Exeter Festival of South West Food & Drink in Northernhay Gardens and Exeter Castle from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 April to enjoy the region’s best food, drink, producers and chefs and celebrate the Festival’s 10th anniversary year. Close to 20,000 people attended the Festival with record numbers of visitors on Saturday and Sunday.

The highest ever number of visitors in the 10-year history of the region’s biggest foodie event ensured many of more than one hundred South West artisan food producers sold out of produce and the cookery theatre was...

Ladies pamper night at Sapphire Living Space

VIP guests enjoyed a ladies pamper night at Sapphire Living Space near Darts Farm in Topsham.

The luxury kitchen and bathroom showroom joined forces with Saks Hair and Beauty and Purity Day Spa, both in Exeter, to host a drinks and canapés evening with live demonstrations. The food and drinks were catered for by Bon Gout of Exeter.

Co-owner Mark Newbery said: "This will be the first of many events we will be staging at Sapphire. It was a great success."

Delicious Devon Recipes: Darts Farm Lasagne

From the humble beginnings of the farm shop hut nearly 40 years ago, Darts Farm has continually evolved and is now renowned as a hub of local food and drink. Here Darts Farm Head Chef Michael Crane offers a satisfying dish for dinner with family or friends.

Ingredients: Serves 4

450g Gerald David Minced Beef Steak

400g Tinned Tomatoes

100g Locally Grown Somerset Mushrooms, sliced

1 Chopped Onion

2 Sticks of Celery,chopped

1 lsle of Wight Garlic...

Marmalade Masterclass with Victoria Cranfield

Make your own award-winning Seville Orange Marmalade at Darts Farm on Friday 25th January 2013.

Artisan Double Gold World Marmalade award-winner Victoria Cranfield will be sharing her trade secrets into making her world-class marmalade in a fun and hands-on session at Darts Farm, Topsham.

The ‘Queen of Condiments’ will also teach you how to make delicious spiced orange slices and candied oranges that you can take home with you. This is a fantastic opportunity to kick-start the New Year with a new skill that your friends and family will love.

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Enjoy festive indulgence at Darts Farm

With twinkling festive lights and decorations scented with spices, it is definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas at award-winning local food retailer, Darts Farm.

Once again Darts Farm has a calendar bursting with Christmas events and activities, including Christmas master classes, food and drink tastings, Santa’s Grotto, late night shopping, and for the first time this year - a carol service lead by Woodbury church.

Darts Farm’s Festive Indulgence Evening will kick-start the festivities on Wednesday 5th December from 7.30pm – 9.30pm. Now in its sixth year, the...

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