MARCH

1-9, Saundersfoot St David Food and Craft Festival, Pembrokeshire www.visit-saundersfoot.com
Events like the Cawl Cooking Trail and the Biggest Leek Competition attract crowds from miles around, who can also enjoy products from Pembrokeshire and Wales.

7-8 Wakefield Festival of Food, Drink and Rhubarb Yorkshire
Lots of local Yorkshire produce and a chance visit the magical rhubarb forcing sheds and hear about the heritage of this wonderful vegetable.

22-24, Chester Food & Drink Festival www.chesterfoodanddrink.com
The festival at the racecourse takes place over the Easter weekend and will have "villages" for produce from Cheshire and North Wales, together with sections for national and international produce.

APRIL

11-13, Exeter Festival of South West England Food and Drink
The first big one of the year. As well as a vast array of food producers the festival will have a range healthy eating activities to inspire young food lovers.

24-27, Real Food Festival, Earls Court, London www.realfoodfestival.co.uk
The event will have the principles of slow food at its core and showcase carefully selected food and drink that is good, clean and fairly sourced.

Dates to be confirmed: Lancashire Food Festival www.lancashirefoodfestival.co.uk
Street music and dancing will create the perfect atmosphere in which to enjoy a host of traditional Lancashire foodstuffs.

27 - 5 May, Festival of Food and Wine at Jesmond Dene House Hotel and Restaurant in Newcastle www.jesmonddenehouse.co.uk A festival in its third year championing the North East’s produce, with Michelin starred chefs, many of them women, a vegetarian feast, a glamorous afternoon tea and steel band barbecue.

MAY

11, Watercress Festival, Alresford, Hampshire www.watercress.co.uk Watercress-orientated activity including celebrity cookery demonstrations, children's workshops and food market.

May - dates tbc, Henley Food Festival www.henleyfoodfestival.co.uk
Antony Worrall Thompson and Raymond Blanc will give free cookery demonstrations and the head-to-head final of the "cook in" competition for amateur chefs.

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