The “Feed Your Wellbeing Festival” at Elmfield Market is designed to combine the joys of good food, health, and nature.
Set in the beautiful Elmfield Estate, Gilford, Co Armagh, this one-day festival on Saturday, 31st August 2024, from 10am-5pm, promises to be a holistic experience for all ages.
Building on the success of the Elmfield Market, which started in June 2021, the festival will feature over 40 local food and drink producers, along with artists, craftspeople, and makers of holistic products. The market will be the centrepiece of the festival, offering visitors the chance to explore a wide variety of high-quality, locally sourced products.
The festival will be packed with activities, including:
- * Panel Talks: Experts will discuss the importance of food for health, offering valuable insights into nutrition and wellbeing
- * Farmer Stories: Hear directly from farmers about their journey in producing nutrient-rich foods
- * Guided Walks: Explore the estate’s biodiversity, learn about native birds and trees, and enjoy family-friendly activities like a bird walk with a workshop on making fat balls
- * Children’s Activities: Fun with Drums workshops and engaging storytelling sessions will keep younger visitors entertained
- * Live Music: Enjoy live music from local artists
- * Delicious Food: savour a range of culinary delights from our producers and street food vendors and specialist coffee trucks
- * Enjoy walks along the lakeside and through the trees of the estate.
The Feed Your Wellbeing Festival at Elmfield Market is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in wellbeing, nature, and supporting local producers. For those familiar with the market, it is an opportunity to visit Elmfield Estate once again and shop directly with your favourite producers and makers all in the one place.
Tickets are £12 and are available online or visitors can pay on the day. Children 16 years and under are free.
Tickets (£12 pp, children under 16 free) via https://elmfieldestate.com/market/
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For more information on who is trading and schedule of events, visit the Elmfield Estate website and keep an eye on our social media channels.
A Family Welcome at Elmfield
Elmfield is a Shaw family operation whose heritage is one of farming and health. It is the vision of Jane Shaw to create a centre for sustainable health at Elmfield, illuminating the path to wellbeing through the work of The Elmfield Institute, providing a tranquil private learning environment for organisations, and raising awareness of healthy living through the Elmfield Wholefood and Wellbeing market. Whether you visit for a wellbeing training, a day to the market, or for a company awayday, you will be met with a warm Shaw family welcome.
The History of Elmfield
Elmfield Estate has been a family home for generations and of the Shaw family for the last 60 years. It has evolved through the years, from a modest dwelling house and stable yard in the 18c to an impressive Victorian Scottish baronial style house with turrets and ziggurat balustrades, built by the wealthy linen barons in the mid-1800s.
The estate ran into disrepair after the second world war but was saved by the Shaws who have lovingly restored the house, farm, and gardens room by room lawn by lawn. Elmfield has certainly been a place of transformation and vision over the last 60 years. When Derek and Ann’s three children were little, they enjoyed the freedom and wildness that only a semi-derelict estate can offer. To turn that into what you see today is down to Derek’s vision.
There are more than 300 years of fascinating history to be discovered here, from the history of the founding, design and redesign of the house to the plans for the grounds and courtyards. Over the years more than one family dynasty of linen merchants has called Elmfield their home, and the layers of heritage here offer deep insights into Northern Ireland’s once-dominant linen industry.
During World War II Elmfield was home to a very different cohort of people, housing German and Italian prisoners of war within its grounds. Some years after the war a comprehensive restoration of the Elmfield Estate was completed by the Shaw family and forms the basis of what you can see today, enabling the estate to host rewarding holistic experiences that include trauma-informed training programmes, corporate wellness and leadership programmes, and transformative retreat experiences.
