This festival is now becoming an established event in every 'foodies' calendar.

Saturday 4 October 10-5pm

Heading the lineup:

Jane Baxter – ex head chef Riverford Field Kitchen Jane Baxter is a chef and food writer. She trained at the Carved Angel under Joyce Molyneux before moving to the River Café. After a stint travelling and cooking around the world, in 2005 she set up the acclaimed Riverford Field Kitchen in Devon. She is co-author of the Riverford Farm Cookbook and Recipes for Everyday and Sunday. Currently based in south Devon, her latest book, co-written with Henry Dimbleby, is Leon: Fast Vegetarian.

Tim Hayward, food geek, Guardian writer, broadcaster, editor of "Fire and Knives" which won "Best Food Magazine" at 2012 Food Writers Awards. Author of "FoodDIY" - how to make your own everything!  Tim will bring wit, wisdom and fiery expertise to Powderham's finest produce using a charcoal and seaweed filled wheelbarrow as his favoured cooking medium.

Ben Bulger – Devon Chef of the year Magdalen Chapter Hotel - Ben is an award-winning chef whose core ethos is to create simple, seasonal and classic dishes, with a focus on local produce. During his career he has won an Observer Food Monthly Award and just months after The Magdalen Chapter opened its doors, he was named as Chef of the Year 2012 in the Devon Life Food and Drink Awards. Before joining The Magdalen Chapter, Ben was Head Chef at The Riverford Field Kitchen, where he worked alongside Jane Baxter. Ben’s style of cooking helped them to gain a reputation for simple but excellent food.

Peter Greig owner of Pipers Farm, award-winning grass fed free range meat. Peter began by working in his father’s industrial chicken unit, but was to keen change direction to traditional slow growing farming methods. Peter travelled to continental Europe in order to witness the very different butchery methods employed there, taught himself to butcher, and together with his wife Henrietta, headed down to Devon and began Pipers Farm with the prime focus being to produce grow contented animals slowly on the land, in small groups with minimum stress, to produce fantastic tasting meat.  Today the Pipers Farm embraces 25 family farms, all helping to produce healthy food that tastes good Today the Pipers Farm family embraces 25 family farms who use traditional, sustainable values which have been handed down through generations to produce healthy food that tastes good.

James Strawbridge, proprietor “Posh Pasty Company”, grower, poet, environmentalist, eco-technologist, TV presenter and cook, brings along his “BBQ Smokehouse” serving home-produced pastrami sandwiches.  A “Hungry Sailor”, together with his Dad, Dick Strawbridge, he has sailed the coast of South West Britain making landfalls to find the best locally produced food and appeared on his own show. They also appeared together on “It’s not easy being green” and “Saturday Farm”.

Patrick Fogarty, Bronx Grill and Bar in Teignmouth - London restaurant entrepreneur, Patrick Fogarty is a Devon lad returning to his roots to open Bronx BBQ restaurant and bar to add to the emerging and exciting Teignmouth restaurant scene. Committed  to using best local meat, serving killer cocktails and Devon craft ales, Patrick will be serving up a fiery storm at Powderham Castle Food Fest this October.

And that's not all. Are your loaves leaden? Do you despair at your sagging sponges? Are rock hard scones even rejected by the ducks? Help is at hand in the “The Garton & King Perfection Marquee” where we’ll be serving up superb demos on how to faultlessly bake everything from the perfect meringue to the perfect pasty.

Family fun, live music in two venues and an abundance of fabulous food – don’t miss it.

www.powderhamfoodfestival.com