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Ludlow Green Festival Returns This Month

August 18th, 2010

Ludlow’s annual celebration of all things green is set to take place in the town’s Castle Square on 28th August, representing a major part of the town’s bank holiday celebrations. Now in its eighth year, the festival will once again showcase ideas for living more environmentally responsible and sustainable lifestyles.

The main focus of the festival will be the Green Fair, taking place between 10am and 4pm in Castle Square. The Square will be filled with stalls exhibiting, selling and demonstrating green products and services. There will be music from three live bands, an array of local and wholesome food and drink, guided walks around Ludlow and a local allotment open day at Wigley’s Field.

Visitors can learn all about foraging on a wild food walk led by local enthusiast Sheila Spence. Sheila has spent many hours collecting wild hedgerow flowers, fruits, nuts and fungi, and honing her cookery skills to prepare and preserve them, while living on a south Shropshire smallholding.

As is now the tradition, a recycled house will be built in Events Square, and this year it will be made from plastic bottles and rubber tyres.

New for 2011 will be the Festival Bus, linking the Green Festival to the sixth Sun Inn Beer Festival at the historic parlour pub in Leintwardine. For timetable details and fares, go to www.ludlow21.org.uk, or call into Ludlow Visitor Information Centre.

There will also be a host of activities for junior eco-warriors, including Make and Munch (make your own edible garden), and Exotic Storytelling. Shropshire Council’s mobile Museum on the Move will also be stopping by with an exhibit entitled ‘Our Changing World - The Dinosaur, The Dodo and The Dormouse’.

Event organiser Roger Furniss expects another hugely successful event, stating: “We’re hoping this year to top the fantastic attendance figures and brilliant atmosphere of the 2010 festival - a tall order but the programme of events is so appealing that I’m sure we’ll manage it”.

So come and discover ideas on how to make our world a better place to be at one of the best showcases for green ideas in the West Midlands.

http://www.greenfestival.co.uk/