Festival Programme

The Food and Farming Festival will take place over the weekend of 5/6 September 2009. These dates will coincide with the Scottish Food Fortnight. Events are being organised and will take place on the Saturday in The Square, Huntly and on the Sunday at The Mart on the edge of the town.

The main events in the programme for these two days are listed below. A full programme can be downloaded here in .pdf format.

In addition to events on the day, there will be a number of competitions running for the duration of the Festival. These will start on 5 September and entries can be submitted until late October with judging taking place on 7 November. These will include :

  • Apron Making

Further details of the events can be found on our 'Events' page and entry forms can be downloaded from the 'Entries' page.

Saturday programme

Event Time Venue
 Farmers Market  09:00 - 16:00  The Square
 Chinese Cookery  10:00  Legge House
 Hunt the Haggis  10:30 - 12:30  Market
 Childrens Cookery Workshop  10:30  Huntly Hotel
 Children's choir  11:30  Market
 Can't Cook/Won't Cook  13:00 - 14:30  Linden Centre
 Chocolate workshop  14:30  Huntly Hotel
 Bike Food Trail  14:30 - 16:30  The Square
 World Stovie Championship  15:00 - 16:00  Linden Centre
 Spanish Guitar Concert  19:30  St Margaret's Church Hall
 To be confirmed :
Rabbit skinning

Sunday programme

Event Time
Opening in ring. Church service. Followed by Singing/Pipers 9:30-10:15  
Stock judging demonstration & competitions 10:00-12:00
Quiz 11:00-3:00
Scarecrows competition 10:00-12:00
Wood turning demonstration 10:30, 15:00
Sheep dog demonstration by Geo Simpson 11:00, 3:00
Spinning demonstration 11:00-12:00
Apron demonstration/workshop 11:00-1:00
Relay teams race (& haggis by guides) 12:00
Dressing tups for sales/shows demonstration 12:00-2:00
Butchering of lamb demonstration 1:00-2:00
Sheep ‘dipping’ 2:00
Pigeon plucking/gutting competition 2:30
All competition results & prize giving 3:00-3:30
Doric songs/verse/grace/pipers etc 3:30-4:00
 Tin Hut Supper at Gartly Village Hall  7:00pm
    All day
  • Trade Stands including RNCI, NHS stand & float
  • Tractors - old to modern.
  • Tractor & ATV rides
  • Pony rides (RDA)
  • Food in the cafe.

 

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