What's on?
Theres a host of entertainment to inspire, educate and just enjoy throughout the festival. From live music, kids entertainment and a farmers market through to tasty street food, machinery displays and live animals. Want to know more? Then you can view everything that happenned HERE on the full 2019 programme!
What's On
Field to Fork Festival Saturday 4th May 2019
Go Karts
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Zoom around in the Go Karts for £2.50 a go!
Exotic Zoo
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Meet the creatures from the Exotic Zoo
Bubble Football
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Bubble Football £2
Drone Zone
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Fly a drone and learn how they are used in food production
The Dog ate my homework?
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Guess the unusual pet snacks as you explore a series of x-rays whilst dressed as a veterinary professional
Tortoise Nursery Soft Play
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Soft Play area for our mini visitors from Tortoise Nursery!
Alison's Bee Class
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
With lots of fun activites from rolling your own candle made of Beeswax to watching live honey bees in their hive you won't want to miss out, make sure you check out Alison's Bee Class at this years Field to Fork Festival and see some amazing honey in action.
More InfoTeddy Bear Surgery
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Do teddy bear surgery with Haygate Vets!
Panic Circus
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Welcome to the exciting world of Panic Family Circus! A social circus providing fun packed interactive programmes for the entire family!
Wheel of Farming
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Farming scenarios and how ecology can be used to address them with the British Ecological Society
Diversity of Bees
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Live Hive and the different types of pollinators with the Royal Entomological Society and the British Ecological Society
Glow in the Dark Insects
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Tracking insects and experiment with ways to track them with the Royal Entomological Society and the British Ecological Society
Plant related activities
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Plant Activities with the British Ecological Society
Insect Handling
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Insect handling with the Royal Entomological Society and the British Ecological Society
Friends and Foes
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Insect pests and natural predator specimens under the microscope with the Royal Entomological Society and the British Ecological Society
Speedy Spuds
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Play the spudtastic game! Explore the lifecycle and compete against each other the win!
Crop Matching
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Interactive game that allows you to understand where your daily products really come from
Happy Habitats
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Learn about and have a go at making items to keep small animals entertained
Judging crisps by their covers
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Explore the impact of packaging on consumer behaviour
Micro Robots
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Robotic Engineering Workshop
Slug Slalom
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Why do we microchip slugs? Come and have a go at tracking slugs through soil
The Alternative Milky Way
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Exploring the diary supply chain
What's it Worth?
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Test your skills by valuing a range of objects
Hydroveg
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Gardening made easy! No dirt, no digging, no weeding, no slugs, no snails and no constant watering
Bees
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Familiarising with the key diagnostic parts of the European Honey Bee
Canine chaos
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Come and learn about animal behaviour and help teach canines some tricks that benefit their agility and behaviour
Robot Digger Challenge
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Never need to get your hands mucky again with a spade! just programme a handy robot!
Edible Bug Challenge
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Do you have what it takes to take on the bug challenge?
Oil Talk
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Don't miss the discussion on this slippery topic
DairyCrest and DavidStow
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Meet some of the country's gigantic dairy producers!
Airsoft Target Practice
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Air Soft Target Practice with the Edge Adventure! £4
Soft Archery
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Soft Archery with the Edge Adventure £3
Food Through the Ages
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Take a journey into the living history area covering all things food and farming. From the early man hunting to the mechanisation of farming. Featuring Saxon cookery, Medieval, Roman, the 1950's and 1930 land army....and WW2 military rations
Footprints Forest School
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Hands on bushcraft!
Rally Team
10.00 AM - 4.00 PM
Watch the tyre change challenge in action!!
BASC
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
The British Association forShooting and Conservation are bringing their shooting simulator to site!
Dog MOT
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Hydroponics and Aquaponics display
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Bones Workshop
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Discovering Animal Skeletal Systems
Bones Workshop
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Discovering animal skeletal systems
Dragonfly Society
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Butterfly and Dragonfly Society
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Pudding Club
10.00 AM - 5.00 PM
Enjoy the Harper Adams Pudding Club for just £5 or £6 with a Coffee!
Harper Adams Music Society
10.30 AM - 11.40 AM
Harper Adams Music Society proudly present their music to you! Opening the Field to Fork music its time to enjoy your day!
Soil Secrets
10.30 AM - 11.00 AM
The science of composting and the real secrets of our soil
The Truth About... Coffee and Tea
11.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Mornings will never be the same!
Soil Secrets
11.30 AM - 12.00 PM
The science of composting and the real secrets of our soil
4x4 Track with Volvo
12.00 PM - 12.00 PM
Go for a 4x4 thrill with Volvo Shrewsbury!
The Truth About... Bees
12.00 PM - 12.45 PM
We have to save our world
Chasing August
12.00 PM - 12.40 PM
Chasing August are an indie 4 piece from Shropshire, taking influence from different bands and genres, they have crafted a sound which best fits them.
Future Foods... Insect Nation
12.45 PM - 1.30 PM
Discussion of future food alternatives, in the form of insects.
Bouncing Betty
1.00 PM - 1.40 PM
Local Band Black Betty are here to get you up and dancing!
The Truth About... Oil
1.30 PM - 2.15 PM
You can't palm this one off!
Dirty Rockin' Scoundrels
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Bringing you the best Rock 'n' Roll music of the 50s and 60s
The Truth About... The Spice Trail
2.15 PM - 3.00 PM
How Clive changed lives
The Truth About... Chocolate
3.00 PM - 4.00 PM
The changing face of Cacao
Dairy Rotary
3.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Don't miss out! Be at the farm for 3pm!
The Endings
3.20 PM - 4.00 PM
Shropshire-based six-piece folk/rock band with an Irish twist - The Endings, up tempo, good time music, playing orginals and covers.
Two Blank Pages
4.20 PM - 5.00 PM
Folk n Roll to finish the day!
Producers
You met more than 80 of the most passionate producers of all things food and drink in the farmers market area, and the entrepreneurs that have started some of the nation's best businesses on Harper Street. You were able to meet the animals from the farm and learn about what they bring to the journey from field to fork. Remember Harper Adams also has small animals, a veterinary services centre and collections of insects, so the food of the future might not be what you expect...
The soil hall allowed you to see tractors and machinery galore up close and personal. You travelled through time and enjoyed looking at the vintage machinery or if the future was more your thing, then you can learn about the Hands Free Hectare project where automated farming of the future is in action.
Fun and Activites
Entertainment for the entire family as the day was centrered around fun and more fun. There were loads of activities for all ages from 0 through to 100. Hands-on and mucky experiences: pond dipping, sporting activities, educational zones and so much more were all FREE to participate in, so we hope you came along and got involved. We had a HUGE live music stage with some top local bands and while mum and dad enjoyed a drink from the bar the little ones could enjoy loads of activities!
The "truth about food" talks and presentations highlighted some of today's current issues and you were able to find out where your food comes from and explore some common misconceptions.
Harper Street featured the best products from graduates who have gone on to be some of the best in the industry. You met with them and discovered the motivation behind what they have achieved.