SHOBDON Food Festival, set up nearly a decade ago to support local farmers and producers, has moved to a new home at Shobdon Airfield for this year’s event.

It will be opened on Saturday, June 29, by Paralympian swimmers Nyree and Sascha Kindred – pictured – who between them have won 22 Paralympic medals.

“We’ve both been to the Shobdon Food Festival in the past and had a great time so to be asked to come back and open it is really nice,” said Nyree.

“We’re looking forward to seeing all the new attractions they’ve added since moving to Shobdon Airfield.”

Shobdon Food Festival has grown into one of the region’s best-loved culinary events boasting more than 70 of the finest food, drink and craft exhibitors around.

Among the items on this year’s menu are crepes and chocolate, wine and beer, jams and pickles, cakes and ice-cream, cider and Scotch eggs, with demos from Wot’s Cooking and The Cottage Herbery, Rayeesa’s Indian Kitchen and, as he has since the first Shobdon food festival, Matthew Handley of the Stagg Inn at Titley.

For smaller wouldbe cooks, the Easy Peasy Cookery School will be open for lessons.

Having moved to the airfield, a celebration of flying complements the culinary offerings, with parachutes, planes and helicopters taking to the skies above the tempting stalls.

Away from the food and the flying, Shobdon will also feature the carvings of woodcutter extraordinaire Steve Elsby and sculptures from Simon Jameson at 1066 Creations, and the entertainment also includes the Leominster Morris, Knighton Tow Silver Band and an evening of summer jazz on Saturday.

All proceeds from the weekend will be split equally between the Herefordshire Aero Club and the Shobdon Food Festival with all of the Food Festival’s share donated to charities and good causes. For full details, go to shobdonfoodfestival.co.uk.