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Barn Dance

Event Date: 
26/07/2014 - 6:00pm to 11:00pm
Venue: 
West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG

Join West Town Farm for their favorite event of the year - the Barn Dance!

The evening starts with children's activities from Love Local Food, music from Ide Folk and a chance to enjoy some BBQ and make the most of the bar.

Red Shed and their caller then take to the stage around 8pm, keeping everyone on our toes until the end of the evening.

Tickets on the door will be £8 an adult, £5 a child or £22 for tow of each.

Tickets in advance will be £7 an adult, £4 a child and £20 for two of each, to book advance tickets email events@westtownfarm.co.uk or call...

200 plants seized in Suspected Cannabis factory

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Fri, 02/07/2014 - 9:38am

Police have discovered a suspected cannabis growing business at a property in Brixham.

Acting on intelligence, officers from Brixham Neighbourhood Team, entered a premises on South Furzeham Road at around 2.30pm on Friday 31 January. They called for assistance and when additional local officers arrived the two occupants at the property were arrested. The subsequent search of the premises resulted in a large-scale professional set up being discovered in the basement area of the house and associated production works in the detached garage. Officers discovered around 200 suspected...

Medlar Syrup and Chutney Making Day

Event Date: 
01/02/2014 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG

If you've never heard of a Medlar before you're probably not alone. They're not the type of fruit you're likely to find on a supermarket shelf and to be honest they don't taste great raw but they make delicious, jellies, chutneys, desserts, even wine. However even finding the jelly in the shops can be rare, so you really do benefit from making it yourself.

A member of the rose family they resemble a large, flat rosehip but with a lovely russet skin which translates into a beautiful bronze coloured preserve. Nigel Slater is amongst those who relish the...

Basic Butchery & Charcuterie Day Course

Event Date: 
13/04/2014 - 9:30am to 4:30pm
Venue: 
West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG

Do you enjoy your meat, love rare breed pork, but would like to do a little bit more with it?

West Town Farm have joined forces with local artisan charcuterie makers Good Game, the farm are providing the pork, Good Game are providing the skills and knowledge for a fabulous day on the farm learning to do more with meat.

This course is aimed at the home hobbyist and any lover of good food who might want to make their own bacon or have a go at curing a Chorizo or two. This is a great way to get an appreciation of what goes into curing and what you need to do it at home....

Basic Butchery & Charcuterie Day Course

Event Date: 
02/02/2014 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
Venue: 
West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG

Do you enjoy your meat, love rare breed pork, but would like to do a little bit more with it?

West Town Farm have joined forces with local artisan charcuterie makers Good Game, the farm are providing the pork, Good Game are providing the skills and knowledge for a fabulous day on the farm learning to do more with meat.

This course is aimed at the home hobbyist and any lover of good food who might want to make their own bacon or have a go at curing a Chorizo or two. This is a great way to get an appreciation of what goes into curing and what you need to do it at home....

Rural Consultancy hosts Cowsignals training day

A bespoke Cowsignals® workshop organised by Haines Watts Rural Business LLP attracted 50 dairy farmers from across Devon and Cornwall. The basis of Cowsignals® is observing the cow’s body language and translating it to management. It lays a solid foundation for the management of farms and helps to demonstrate how to monitor and improve management to ensure that farmers and cows are achieving optimum health, performance and welfare on farms.

The special training day sponsored by Cornish Mutual and Harpers Home Mix Ltd with funding accessed via Healthy Livestock, was held at Shernick...

Fun on the Farm Photo Competition

Have you visited West Town Farm in 2013 and did you have fun?

Maybe you came to one of our open days and enjoyed a tractor trailer ride, perhaps your child came to a birthday pottery party here? Were you a guest at a wedding and tucked into a delicious hog roast or did your school come out to the farm on an educational visit and do story telling with Kevin of OragnicARTS?

Well we're celebrating a great year of fun on the farm by giving you the chance to win a free "Original Meat Box" - containing a roasting joint, sausages, mince, stewing cuts, a selection of...

"Fantastic Mr. Fox" - Butterscotch Sunday Film Screening

Event Date: 
28/07/2013 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG

Butterscotch Sunday presents a special farmyard film screening of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’, featuring a story-telling trail of the farm, a local food BBQ and live music in support of The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, taking place at West Town Farm at 6pm on Sunday July 28th.

“Boggis, Bunce, and Bean; One fat, one short, one lean.These horrible crooks,so different in looks,were nonetheless equally mean.”

If this rhyme brings back childhood memories of goose-liver doughnuts or a cantankerous badger then you may want to dig a tunnel...

Wild Beef launches its West Country Farm Shop

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 06/03/2013 - 10:30am

Wild Beef, a family-run Chagford farm specialising in naturally reared and nutritionally superior beef, has announced the official launch of the Wild Beef West Country Farm Shop.

The farm shop stocks the finest artisan food and drink from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. The shop’s produce is available at Wild Beef’s market locations at Borough and Broadway, in London, and Wells, in Somerset. The range is also available by mail order.

Supporting boutique farms and suppliers, the shop brings together exceptional produce not easily accessible outside the fertile South West...

As You Like It

Event Date: 
23/06/2013 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Venue: 
West Town Farm, Ide, Exeter EX2 9TG

New to West Town Farm this year, As You Like It is one of Illyria's Shakespeare productions and one we're confident will be fantastic, as no other touring open-air theatre company has performed so many different Shakespeare titles to so many people, winning so many awards, as Illyria!

As You Like It is Shakespeare's ultimate romantic comedy. Four people each find their perfect soulmates in the Forest of Arden. One pair leap straight into bed, another are instantly struck by each other's beauty, the third torment each other endlessly - while the fourth enjoy a courtship that is so...

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