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Watercress Festival News
FESTIVAL A HUGE SUCCESS! - posted 04/06/2010
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who made the 7th Alresford Watercress Festival such a magnificent success last Sunday! From the volunteers who organised and ran it to the food producers, chefs, market traders, musicians, morris dancers, entertainers and school children who created it, the sponsors who supported it and to the thousands of you who came along to enjoy it! In the typically springtime sunshine and showers we received somewhere in the region of 12,000 visitors to our little market town, everyone keen to find out more about our famous crop and taste the myriad of recipes into which heart, soul and inspiration had been poured. We hope that you found delight in our festival, our town and our watercress!
We look forward to seeing you again on the 15th May 2011.
The Alresford Watercress Festival Committee
We look forward to seeing you again on the 15th May 2011.
The Alresford Watercress Festival Committee
Festival Trade Stands Fully Booked! - posted 06/05/2010
As we gear up for the 16th all of the trade stands for this year are now taken, but if you would like to be considered for a stand in 2011 please send us your details via the contact form.
VOTE NOW! - posted 21/04/2010
The Eateries Competition for the 'Best Watercress Dish under £10' has now started and we need YOUR VOTE to help decide the winner. To find out more about the competition and the local eateries involved please click here.
To vote please click here
Eateries Awards Competition starts Monday 19th April - posted 15/04/2010
Eateries Awards..'Best Watercress Dish for under £10'..in eateries near you!
In the four weeks leading up to the festival, many of the local restaurants, cafés, pubs and hotels will be serving diners with their own authentic, imaginative and tasty watercress-based dish for under £10. It could be a starter, main or even a dessert (yes, even a dessert!) using watercress as a major ingredient. We need your vote to help decide the best, so click here to find out more!
Follow a Treasure Trail Around The Festival! - posted 09/03/2010
In another first for the festival, Lisa and Tony from Treasuretrails have created a fun treasure trail around the festival. Pick up your FREE treasure trail leaflet from their gazebo outside the Bell Hotel and follow the clues - solve the mystery of the trail to be entered into a prize draw. Great fun for pre-teens (and the rest of the family).
Kidsrome Mobile Farm Coming in 2010 - posted 09/03/2010
Kidsrome are goingto bring their children's mobile farm to entertain and educate young and old at the festival. This "farm on the mooove" is designed to help children develop an understanding of the animals and why they are farmed. This will be a rare opportunity for children to get up close to a range of farm animals including a pony, donkey, cow, sheep, rabbits and chickens, and to talk to a farmer about them.
copyright Watercress Festival 2009 Photographs by kind permission of Roy Gentry, the Watercress Alliance and other festival partners.
