Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival
The Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival is a glorious summer event celebrating the many artisan producers located across Exmoor, the Quantocks and Devon. To be held on Saturday 8 July from 10am to 4,30pm on the Exmoor Lawns beside the River Barle in the heart of Dulverton – a beautiful location for this popular festival.
What to expect at the Festival
Alongside live music and hot and cold refreshments, you’ll discover over 35 stalls from local producers – a selection of gifts, clothing, homeware, leather goods and of course home-produced meat, beer, spirits, puddings, dog treats… to name just a few!
See below a list of many of the artisans who will be attending the festival in 2023.
Free admission for all!
Enjoy this gallery of images of The Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival in 2022…
Beautiful Things for Your Home
Discover beautiful hand made soft furnishings and items to decorate your home in style. Created by Belinda Irvine and made in Devon.
Our Beeswax candles and products are made with beeswax from our own hives and the hives of West Country beekeepers dotted across the beautiful countryside where the combination of grass meadows, fruit farms, rolling pastureland and oodles of fresh air help produce our unique high quality beeswax.
Unique high quality belts that will last a lifetime, designed and made on the edge of Exmoor using traditional skills and materials
Caveland Farm in South Molton provides lamb, chicken and duck.
A beautiful vintage Whitby Morrison catering trailer selling delicious artisan GG ice creams, milkshakes, crepes, waffles and hot drinks. Based in Tiverton, Mid Devon.
Our part-time nano-brewery, producing small batch bottle-conditioned beers, began brewing in April 2021 on 200 litre brewing equipment.
The dream is to remain a small but quality producer of beers, building a respected local presence in Devon and Somerset, on the edge of Exmoor, working with the local community to support mutual goals. Natural finings are used for beer clarity so all of our beers are vegan and vegetarian friendly.
The Culmstock Chilli Co is situated in a beautiful Devon village nestled at the foot of the Blackdown Hills. Our passion is growing chilli plants that you can grow on your windowsill. Our range of plants are all chosen for taste, flavour and beauty. We grow all plants from seed and baby them throughout their time with us.
The Dog House Pantry from Minehead makes fabulous homemade treats for your four legged friends! Why not try their new sweet potato dog chews?! Visit their page on Facebook.
Exmoor Distillery is a family run business nestled in the steep wooded valleys just outside Dulverton. We produce high quality multi award winning gins, rums and other spirits and have even named our Northmoor Gin range after the road we live on in Dulverton! We have a distillery shop, open each day and also welcome visitors for pre-arranged tours and tastings. You can order any of our products including gift sets and gin and tonic kits online for nationwide delivery.
Exmoor Engraving is based in Minehead, on the edge of Exmoor National Park, from where we draw our inspiration.
We specialise in Moorland and Coastal silhouette art; Craft work in wood; Bespoke word art to commission; Silhouette wood cuts to commission; and Laser cut gift ware and souvenirs.
Where possible we like to use locally sourced materials and work from our own images. We welcome enquiries for commissions and from trade.
Delicious grazing boxes, platters & feasting tables.
Abundantly filled with the highest quality fresh ingredients & homemade delicacies. Made with passion in the heart of Exmoor.
Welcome to Exmoor Fudge Kitchen.
Come and choose from a selection of delicious homemade fudge in a variety of flavours, all made in my kitchen from the hills of Somerset.
Exmoor Horn wool is a high quality knitting yarn that comes to you courtesy of the Exmoor Horn sheep who live in the West Somerset and North Devon areas of Exmoor.
This soft but hard-wearing 70:30 blend of pure Exmoor Horn with Exmoor blueface wool is available in its natural colour, and also in the colours inspired by the landscape in which it grew. The yarn is spun on Exmoor at John Arbon’s mill in South Molton, where there has been a connection with the wool trade since mediaeval times.
To complement the knitting wool, we have a range of ready-made country-style welly socks, ideal for all country pursuits.
We hand make all the dough and sauces with local ingredients, and hand stretch every pizza to order. We come up with unusual and delicious flavour combinations for the best tasting pizzas!
We love a good cuppa that tastes great and looks awesome. Honest ingredients, expertly blended and packed in the South West. For us, it’s about thoughtful living connected to our nature and surrounding.
Using some the finest ethical teas and herbs we’ve expertly blended a cuppa that is unique and mindfully constructed.
Frisky Pheasant Rural Food is based in the rolling hills of North Devon and with the coast just a stones throw away, we travel throughout the South West of England and South Wales bringing you the best flavours from the areas we serve. We explore moorlands, woodlands and rugged coasts to source the finest ingredients for our menus including high welfare meats, game meat and foraged food.
We bring the ingredients back to our kitchen, put on some Bruce Springsteen and get creating!
Here at Green Man Cider we believe in doing things properly. Based in Barnstaple, our cider is made only from top quality apples carefully sourced from orchards in Somerset and North Devon.
Healing services and handmade, natural skincare crafted in small batches and infused with plant medicine and magick in the wilds of North Devon.
Luxury hand illustrated, eco-friendly homeware and gifts, designed and produced in Exmoor. All products illustrated by Helena.
The bespoke pieces created by artist Hilary Jones are individually tailored to the needs of people who want to experience simplicity in the objects that they use on a daily basis.
Each piece is designed to enhance the tactile experience, the surfaces, and a simplicity of form.
Hilary throws predominantly in a porcelain body and uses traditional glazes such as celadons, or magnesium glazes which are coloured with oxides.
Homemade Cakes by Juliet
An independent spirit combined with natural baking skills are two of the ingredients which go to make up Juliet Hayes and her delicious cakes. Get in touch via email here
If you are looking for cottage garden-inspired bee and butterfly friendly blooms that are all unique, hand-picked and tied to order, then you’ve come to the right place. They’re a perfect treat for friends, family – or yourself!
Jessica is the creator of Jessica’s Gardens. A born and bred country girl based in Cullompton, Devon, she had always had a dream of pursuing a work-life outdoors, with gardening being her favourite past-time and long-standing dream job.
She has never looked back and says she can see every day the affect the garden, flowers and nature has on people. How it lights up their eyes, brings about an unconscious smile and restores a sense of hope.
Meet Jessica at the Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival.
Hi, we are Jacquelyn and Georgie, mum and daughter, who work together in Watchet, Somerset creating textile gifts, homeware and artwork all from recycled fabric. Our mission is to create beautiful things from unwanted scraps making them useful again.
Welcome Little Oak Farm, our family run Rare Breed Pork producing business situated on in the heart of Exmoor National Park, Somerset. We produce Rare Breed Middle White Pork from our own herd of Pedigree Middle White Pigs. Our pigs are born and reared outdoors and we farm in a traditional and ethical manner to ensure our pigs are high welfare and live a good life while on the farm.
Established in 2021, baker Luciano produces the highest quality bread and baked goods in his artisan bakery located in the beautiful Venn Valley Vineyard.
Miss Elsie
Meet Louise at the Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival and discover a beautiful and original selection of knitted bags and stained glass items. Perfect gifts or to treat yourself!
Mithril Silver
Beautiful handmade silver jewellery created on Exmoor by Lynn McBride. Call 01398 341642 or send me an email here
Mr B’s trailer-made quality artisan coffee and a range of delicious nutritious snacks. All served with a smile.
We take our name from the lovely Cotswold village of Painswick in Gloucestershire where we were based but we are now located in Kilve in the equally beautiful Quantock Hills of Somerset.
Since inception in 2012 we have built up a diverse range of quality homemade dog leads, collars and accessories using British webbing in a wide variety of colours.
Although we make a choice of “standard” leads, we can offer a bespoke service to your specific requirements. Please contact us to discuss your needs.
Painted Crow Designs creates sun printed botanical art, greeting cards and textiles inspired by a lifelong love of Nature. Organic materials used in the printing process are locally sourced from a wildlife friendly garden and mini wildflower meadow on the edge of Exmoor.
Each piece of art or textile created, including greeting cards, are one-off originals. No two are ever quite the same.
A unique snapshot of Exmoor, printed by the sun.
Paul Tuck Basket Maker
Paul Tuck of Exmoor Baskets and Hurdles is based in Exebridge, just outside of Dulverton. For over thirty years, Paul has been producing a full range of traditional Somerset willow baskets. Strong and functional, his stand may include shopper’s baskets, flower baskets, log baskets, picnic items, a brolly basket and more. Made by hand using quality Somerset willow in several colours, once you’ve acquired one of these beautiful pieces you’ll want more. Paul also makes traditional hurdles, trellis and plant climbers to order.
Rupert Smith Wildlife Photography
I am a wildlife cameraman, photographer and film maker based on Exmoor in the UK. I have credits for over 50 TV programs on BBC2, BBC4, ITV, C4 and others.
Having spent most of my life growing up in the wilds of Devon, Exmoor is a place I know intimately. My wildlife photography is all with wild animals and birds and for me finding the wildlife, learning about it and respecting it is just as important as “getting the shot”. I quite often take no photographs when others would disturb an animal just to get their shot. Through this approach all my images from Exmoor are unique and I have gained a great understanding of wildlife behaviour and appreciate the animals birds and reptiles that all have to share their space with us on the doorstep.
Sarah’s jewellery is handcrafted to a high quality. Inspired by natural form her bespoke designs are completely unique. Sarah creates a wide range of designs by repurposing silver cutlery.
With the help of volunteers and the support of over 22,000 members, we look after some of Somerset’s most iconic landscapes and special wildlife. We restore, strengthen and connect habitats and green spaces on a landscape scale so nature can recover and thrive in the future. We inspire people and communities to put nature into their everyday life and stand up for the natural environment upon which we all depend.
Jo creates handmade leather items from the softest top quality leather. Every item is made individually by Jo from scratch; all orders are packaged beautifully and, wherever possible, with suistainable products.
Visit her website or Facebook page to to see the current range of leather encased copper bracelets. Different colours are styles are available and bespoke orders taken.
Fresh Bottled Cocktails – Home Made in Devon
Launched in 2021 and based in the village of Uplowman in the heart of Mid Devon, The Sip Shed offers a range of fresh, seasonal and sustainably led bottled cocktails. Choose from a Margarita, an Old Fashioned or many many more!
In the enchanted and wild depth of Exmoor National Park we journey down an old and rough track as it hugs to the side of a deep valley. At the bottom a gently curving stream hops over rocks, happily. It is here we come to a small secluded cottage. And in front of a whispering fire on a cold windswept day, our soap is being carefully crafted with natural ingredients gathered from the generous countryside.
We are a family business of three based on Exmoor. We produce chemical-free soaps, suitable for every skin type.
Crafted with pure essential oils and natural ingredients a variety of scents are available. Each soap is individually and lovingly packaged in one of 7 designs, each connoting a different aspect of Exmoor and country life .
Here at Yellow Door Cottage, everything is about the food and everything we do is done with love and care. We grow our own veggies and rear our own meat. We try to do this as naturally as possible, from ‘hand picking’ caterpillars to feeding our pigs unwanted apples.
At the Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival we are proud to be sharing our range of dog treats for the enjoyment of your four-legged friends.
