The Organic Food Festival

It's here again and I can hardly wait!

This year's Soil Association Organic Fortnight, kicks off with the Soil Association Organic Food Festival which takes place on the 6-7 September 2008 in Bristol.

It's Europe's largest celebration of all things organic and is sponsored by the yummy Yeo Valley Organic.

The event is set in Bristol's famous harbourside and the Festival incorporates bustling food markets, the very best organic food, drink, fashion, skincare and homeware products, a green planet pavilion, demonstration kitchen, talks programme, food cruises around the harbour, and an arts and entertainment fringe!

If you're heading there with the family, there's loads more planned for kids this year, with Organix sponsoring the Children's Zone and such delights as the Food For Life Cookery Bus and the Whole Earth Food Trail. While the Demo Kitchen returns with a serious programme of culinary arts, budding cooks of all ages can also take part in digital age cookery classes from electronics giant Nintendo.

Wander into the Fashion and Textile Marquee and see how a sheep's fleece is turned into a garment. Cornish Organic Wool is supplying organic fleece from Bosigran Farm, Zennor (recent winners at The Royal Cornwall Show in the fleece competition), which will be carded, spun and knitted by Spinning Weal from Clevedon, Somerset. Visitors are very welcome to come and have a go at carding, spinning and knitting.

Neal's Yard Remedies have their own dedicated skincare marquee with an area set aside to offer visitors a mini vitality MOT. Customers will find out their plant vitality profile - a driven and ambitious shoot, a creative flower, a nurturing seed or a contemplative root. From this, a specialist will examine skin vitality and provide tips on how to improve skin and life vitality.

This year Neal's Yard Remedies will be hosting a special talks and workshop area on their stand, where there will be practical talks on anti-ageing through to the natural approach for mothers and babies, with celebrity presenter on the Steve Wright Show, Janey Lee Grace, author of 'Imperfectly Natural Woman' and 'Imperfectly Natural Mother & Toddler'.

There's much more besides, oh yes, and I'll be on the Alistair Sawday's stand signing copies of my hot eco-read, 'The Book of Rubbish Ideas'....

So click here to visit their website for further information and I'll look forward to seeing you there!

TSx