Get ready for Halloween at Rosemoor's Pumpkin Day - a great day out for children and adults alike! This year, come along and get carving! Carve your own pumpkin at our lantern making workshop and then enter it into our Pumpkin Competition (pumpkins will be provided). You can also have a go at our Pumpkin Shy, take the Pumpkin Trail around the Garden and learn how to cook delicious pumpkin delicacies at our cooking demonstration. There will also be various wood craft demonstrations, including charcoal burning, tent peg making, wooden rakes, walking sticks and besom making as well as wood turning and carving. For a Sunday with a difference, come along and join in the fun!

Cost: Normal garden entry.

Pudding Club events are hosted on the 1st Tuesday of each month and at the end of the year 'pudding of the month' winners will be the centre of a Gala Dinner where one will be crowned "Devon's own Queen of Puddings"

Join us at 12.30 and treat yourself to a delicious 3 course lunch where, after a tasty main course, five mouth-watering puddings will be paraded with ceremony, ready for you to enjoy and judge.

Fancy Dress Recommended!

With an eye for the current trend towards fun music evenings Kitley House presents its first Halloween Ball.

This event will feature a scary cocktail, themed 3 course menu and band. The evening starts at 7.30pm with a choice of welcome cocktails for all. Head Chef Viv will present a themed menu using the best of local produce no doubt including pumpkin at some point... The band will play from 10pm until carriages from midnight! The bars will be open until 2pm for night owls and / or vampires.

TARIFF
Inclusive of Scary Cocktail, Themed 3 Course Supper and Entertainment £39.50 per adult.

Check the website for room availability.

Join Trish Jarrett for a morning of aromatherapy, from its history to when best to use the soothing oils to enhance your life. Choose your own oils and enjoy a hand and arm massage before a delicious 3 course lunch.

£35 per person, all included.

Latin American and Salsa lesson with Danceworks Devon followed by an enchanting evening with cocktails and canapes, delicious 6 course dinner and an evening of dancing.

Tickets just £75 per person, inclusive.

Launching the Dartmoor Pudding club at Prince Hall Hotel, a new club for people who love puddings!

Come and enjoy a main course then partake in tasting four different puddings, vote for your favourite and walk away with the recipe of the winning one.

Join us (5 - 6.45pm) for a fun and very informative evening demonstration at The Holt.

Angus will be providing recipes for smoking chicken, duck and pigeon, a rough guide to curing salmon, talking through wet and dry cures as well as the misconceptions and health considerations that surround smoking food at home.

Rounding off the evening will be the chance to try a selection of The Holt's delicious smoked and cured foods and the opportunity to ask plenty of questions. Stay and enjoy a meal afterwards if you wish (booking advisable).

Tickets: £25.00 per head (to include a complimentary drink on arrival, delicious samples throughout and recipes to take away).

Please call 01404 47707 to book.

Wednesday 13 October and Tuesday 26 October

Gidleigh Park is situated in 107 acres of mature beech and oak forests and gardens in the heart of Dartmoor National Park. The wealth of deciduous woodland and wide varieties of flora and fauna are maintained by a small team of gardeners, headed by Andrew Brimblecombe.

Come and experience an hours guided walk around the grounds with Andrew, before enjoying a two-course lunch with a glass of wine in the two Michelin star restaurant (Executive Chef Michael Caines MBE).

£58 per person.

Guided walk during the fallow deer rut, looking for signs and sightings, followed by full English Breakfast in the cafe.

Adult £16, child (5-12) £10. Booking essential 01647 434144.

Plan the planting of your plot, look at crop rotation, growing methods and where to buy seeds & plant.

£10.50 including plant discount.

Celebrate British Food fortnight in the stables, with home cooked food using seasonal produce from the kitchen gardens.

Joint National Trust/Old Inn event; local real ale, cider and BBQ, cheese and apple fair. Hawk display on Sunday.

Explore the history of Doll'shouses with costume Curator, Shelley Tobin.

£17.50pp including 2 course lunch. Booking essential on 01392 881345.

A Great night for all the family. 100's of pumpkins lit, fancy dress, barbeque, children's plays, competions and fireworks.

All proceeds to go to Children in Need.

6pm.

Suggest a new flavour for a sausage each week. The winner will be drawn from a hat and their sausage flavour will be made for sale that week.

At the end of the month customers will be asked to vote for the best one and its inventor will win their height in a string of sausages.

9.30am - 12.30pm or 2-5pm

Darts Farm's cupcake queen Kate Shirazi has a fantastic reputation for her delicious, beautiful cupcakes. In her half day master class Kate will be teaching you her favourite decorating techniques, plus the knowledge to source, bake and decorate the most beautiful cupcakes. You will get to decorate lots of cakes to take home, plus receive a complimentary copy of Kate's book 'Cupcake Magic'.

- CUPCAKES TO DECORATE AND TAKE HOME IN A BOX
- A COMPLEMENTARY COPY OF KATE’S BOOK ‘CUPCAKE MAGIC’
- £35 PER PERSON - REFRESHMENTS - THIS IS A PRE-BOOK EVENT

Tickets, Booking & Cancellation Policy
You can book these events at the till points at Darts Farm or by calling or emailing Rachel on 01392 878228 or foodclub@dartsfarm.co.uk
Tickets are limited on all events. Food Club members receive priority booking as part of their membership package. All further bookings will be on a first come first served basis. If the customer wishes to cancel their place, they will only be offered a full refund if Darts Farm can resell the place.

10am - 1.30pm

This half term bring the kids to join us and local education ranger James Chubb to explore the local landscape, searching for wild ingredients to make wild bread! We will take our wild harvest back to the cookery studio where we will all learn how to make wild bread, which we will feast on with our homemade pumpkin soup for lunch!

£8.50 per head

- Guided wild forage
- Hands on bread and soup making workshop
- Eat your creation for lunch
- Recipe card to take home

"I'm delighted to be hosting a wine tasting evening at The Nobody Inn in Doddiscombsleigh." says Susy of her upcoming Celebration of Food event.

Susy, who is also the weekly wine columnist for The Sunday Telegraph, and a regular presenter on BBC1's Saturday Kitchen has teamed up with the guys at the renowned foodie pub for this lively and entertaining evening. The theme of the wine tasting is "Great New Discoveries for the Autumn" and there will be a wide range of fine wines to taste, lots of tips on how to get the best out of them, and matching them with food, followed by an informal supper afterwards. Susy will also be signing copies of her books at the event. Booking essential.

Visit the lovely Combe House near Honiton to meet the artist Richard Adams in the hotel’s historic Georgian kitchen, and view his latest exhibition.

Limited places are available for a great wintery day out in North Devon.
After meeting at The King's Arms in Georgeham for coffee, we will drive you to the nearby Victorian harbour of Ilfracombe, where we will take a deep sea fishing boat out to see what can be caught, under expert local guidance.

A few hours later, (and probably a bit cold and wet!) we will return to dry land and head back to the King's, to warm our cockles, as well as to prepare, learn and cook our spoils, under the tuition of talented Head Chef Jim Harrison, and Owner (and ex Seafood Restaurant chef) Steve Cave.

You will need good sealegs, a warm set of waterproofs, and we must restrict this one to over 18's.

First come, first served on this epic seafaring day out celebrating our marine history!!