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 |
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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 |
- Trade Stands including RNCI, NHS stand & float
- Tractors - old to modern.
- Tractor & ATV rides
- Pony rides (RDA)
- Food in the cafe.
All day
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