We don’t usually blog about cosmetics companies, but when we do, we blog about ones that use natural ingredients from local food producers!
Sarah Gates, Mitcheldean Soap and Forest of Dean Honey
Supper Club, events and more!
There’s a blaze of colour throughout the Forest of Dean at the moment. It’s autumn – perhaps one of the most beautiful times of year, with the red ochre of the turning beech leaves, and toadstools popping up cheekily through the leaf litter and moss on clear autumnal days.
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The Best Cycling Cafes in the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean
Welcome to the very first report on the best cafés for cyclists, from our band of roving reporters. Although this is the first installment, it is just the start of the Wye Dean Deli Confidential guest reporter slots.
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Just how controversial were the squirrel burgers at the Forest Showcase Food and Drink Festival?
Well, if the Daily Mail is to be believed, people in the Forest of Dean are going gaily about their business, machetes in hand, mowing down innocent woodland creatures such as squirrels, boar and badgers – nothing is safe!
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Wow! What a Showcase!
As the dust settles on the Wye Valley & Forest of Dean’s premier food event, The Forest Showcase, let’s take a little time out to look back at this event, which is set in the famous Speech House fields, right in the heart of the Forest of Dean.
Harts Barn Cookery School: making cooking accessible to all
Yvette Farrell grew up on a country estate where she saw how land should be managed, and how game keepers maintain its equilibrium and work with nature.
Local talent to be proud of: Forest Showcase Food & Drink Festival
Autumn brings us a blaze of colour, as well as one of the most exciting annual events to take place in the Forest of Dean: the Forest Showcase Food & Drink Festival, set in the grounds of the historic Speech House Hotel.
Aunt Martha’s Victorian Tea Rooms: Drybrooks’s hidden gem
Tucked away on the outskirts of Drybrook is one of the Forest of Dean’s hidden gems, which has slowly been gathering momentum since 2007.
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