Festival in full swing
Steyning Food and Drink Festival continues throughout September.
The 2021 Steyning and District Food and Drink Festival is now in full swing.
Organised by the Steyning and District Community Partnership and running until October 2, the first weekend’s events earlier this month featured the farmers’ market, food and drink stalls, cocktail-tasting and the allotment competition prizegiving.
In the High Street, Raft hosted a delicious Cocoa Loco chocolate and JaJu coffee beans tasting and the Sussex Grocer continued the theme by offering a Sussex food tasting.
The ever popular annual shop window display competition was judged by Lynda Spain from Horsham District Council’s economic development team. The results from the first weekend were as follows:Foodie Category: 1st – The Model Bakery, Homemade Tea Time; 2nd – The Sussex Grocer, Scarecrow Twosome tucking into a meal; 3rd – Truffles, Winnie the Pooh and Friends enjoying a spread. Highly Commended – The Little Sweetshop,Honey and Lemon. Non Foodie Category: 1st – St Barnabas House, Formal Dinner Party; 2nd – Vintage and Home, A Very Special Birthday Party; 3rd – Anthony Raymond, A Veggy Plot. Highly Commended – Steyning Antiques, Old Teapots, Jars and Biscuit Tins; LJS, Chocolate and Lollypops.
In the allotment competition, regular judges Lou Crush and Eddie Woodward and guest judge Charles Ashby inspected the contenders. Winners were awarded vouchers from Rushfields Plant Centre plus a tightly packed Higgidy Pies goodie bag – both are sponsors of the event. The winners were: 1st – Alison Brown, Rublees Allotment; 2nd – David Well, Upper Beeding Allotment; 3rd – Mike Piper, Upper Beeding Allotment. A special extra class, The Prettiest Allotment, started this year by Lou, saw the following receiving a prize of another a Higgidy Pies goodie bags: 1st – Theresa Avery, Rublees Allotment; Runner Up – Rose Fillion, Upper Beeding Allotment.
For more details about the festival see www.steyning districtfooddrinkfestival.co.uk