Wealden Times | WT186 | August 2017 | Wedding supplement inside
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Featuring the Healthy Living Festival & Garden Hub<br />
This year’s <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong> Midsummer Fair at Hole Park in Rolvenden was blessed<br />
with three days of wonderful weather and we’re delighted to be returning next year.<br />
We enjoyed three glorious days of<br />
sunshine at this year’s <strong>Wealden</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
Midsummer Fair, sponsored by estate<br />
agents Harpers & Hurlingham, which took place<br />
at Hole Park near Rolvenden on 8,9,10 June.<br />
Over 8,000 visitors enjoyed the heady mix of<br />
shopping, eating and relaxing in the sunshine and<br />
listening to talks from gardening and wellbeing<br />
experts. Headline speaker Davina McCall<br />
shared her top ten tips for staying young in the<br />
Healthy Living Theatre, which was sponsored by<br />
Benenden Hospital. Other speakers in the theatre<br />
included international yoga teacher Liz Lark,<br />
food and healthy living guru and best-selling<br />
cookery writer Madeleine Shaw plus specialists<br />
from the worlds of nutrition and exercise.<br />
Hole Park is famous for its beautiful<br />
gardens which were open to visitors<br />
throughout the three days of the fair.<br />
They made the perfect backdrop<br />
for a gardening celebration which<br />
included stands offering plants,<br />
garden furniture and equipment<br />
plus a Garden Hub, sponsored<br />
by Neptune Tonbridge and<br />
Canterbury, which hosted horticulturalists<br />
speaking on all things garden. BBC garden<br />
presenters Danny Clarke and Mark Lane joined<br />
an impressive line-up of speakers talking on a<br />
wide range of subjects including biodiversity,<br />
garden design, bee and chicken keeping and<br />
growing flowers and vegetables.<br />
Nearly 300 hand-picked exhibitors in the<br />
marquees, avenues and outside on the meadow<br />
did a roaring trade in fashion and accessories,<br />
home and garden wares and locally produced<br />
food and drink. Best-dressed stand this year was<br />
won by first-time exhibitors Yateley Papers, whose<br />
stunning stationery was displayed to perfection<br />
in the Purple Marquee.<br />
We hope you’ll join us at Hole Park<br />
next year for another wonderful <strong>Wealden</strong><br />
<strong>Times</strong> Midsummer Fair on 7,8,9<br />
June. Meanwhile, tickets for our next<br />
Midwinter Fair at the Hop Farm on<br />
16,17,18 November are on sale now.<br />
Hope to see you there!<br />
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