The countdown is on to our Harvest Festival Autumn Fair. Always a wonderful weekend of food, flowers and friends we will be joined by over 30 stallholders including makers, artists, ceramicists and textile makers selling interesting and beautiful pieces for the home and garden, plus food stalls from our regular Produce Market, free range meat and eggs from LAM, artisan pastries and sourdough from Halstead Bakery, the best coffee from Cold Blow, Blackwoods Cheese, natural wines from organic vineyard, Ham Street, and small batch craft beers from Three Legs Brewery.
Stay for lunch in the Carnation House with our special Autumn Fair menu; expect garden pickles; babaganoush, polenta crackers and poppy seed; spiced squash, burrata, kalamata and mint; mutton chops, anchovy and summer beans; plum galette and lemon verbena crème brulee.
For a quicker bite in between browsing, we will be serving food to take away from the sea container on the terrace, plus potted plants for Autumn colour, freshly cut and arranged flower bouquets, garden accessories and seasonal jams and preserves, from the Water Lane Pantry, will be available to buy in the Vinery shop.
Tickets are available on the door and are £5 per adult, children 16 and under come in free. We're looking forward to welcoming you; in the meantime please read on for an introduction to three more of our new stallholders to the Fair, in our Meet the Meet series.
Meet the Makers
Stallholders
Norse Vintage | Olivia Morris at Home | Nicola Gillis Ceramics | Old Hope | Twisted Horseshoe Knives | Wolf from the Door | Mussi Knits | Centre Half | Hawk and Dove | Hunter Jones | Together by Nature | Raffman and Huckster | Sally Hampson | Crafty Basketry | Wilder Botanics | Georgia de Pauley | Rapson de Pauley | Josephine Doolan Knitwear | Scobel Clothing | Gina Portman | Hope Spring Chairs | Amongst’s craft table for children
Food producers
Halstead Bakery | Cold Blow Coffee | LAM | Blackwoods Cheese | Three Legs Brewery | Zak’s Kombucha | Basil Funghi Farm | Ham St Wines | Holy Mackerel | Water Lane Produce Stand
Josephine Doolan is a fabric maker, turning yarn into soft and warm wearable or functional designs. Having studied textile design during the late 80s in Galway and loving colour and pattern and how each influences the other, Josephine believes in slow and deliberate making to fulfil a need: mittens in her cold studio and shop, snoods to keep her neck warm while knitting, and big blanket style scarves to keep her warm on winter beach walks. Each piece in the collection is made using the finest quality lambswool yarn to make simple yet beautiful piece her customers cherish. josephinedoolan.co.uk
Situated just outside the village of Hamstreet in Kent, Ham Street is one of our favourite local vineyards, making still and pet nat style biodynamic and organic wines. Run by young husband and wife team, Jules and Lucie, all Ham Street natural wines are made in small batches only using their grapes, including Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier, Bacchus and Pinot Gris, crafted to show off the best of that particular vintage with minimal additions and interventions in the winery. That means that Ham Street wines will be different year on year, and some styles may only appear intermittently as the team follow what nature provides. hamstreetwines.co.uk
Using nature as her inspiration, Forest makes unique, hand crafted ceramic pieces in her studio outside of Wye. Inspired by the changing seasons, she gathers wild plants from her local surroundings and imprints them into clay, crafting tableware and decorative pieces; each piece showcasing the natural beauty of local plants through organic shapes, earthy tones and gentle curves. togetherbynature.co.uk
Please put the date in your diary as it's going to be a wonderful weekend.