A major event will be held in the grounds of a country house at the end of the month highlighting quality food and how to get the best out of your gardens and allotments. The Bedfordshire Festival of Home, Garden and Food is at Shuttleworth on the weekend

A major event will be held in the grounds of a country house at the end of the month highlighting quality food and how to get the best out of your gardens and allotments.

The Bedfordshire Festival of Home, Garden and Food is at Shuttleworth on the weekend of March 27 and 28 and is supported by Sainsbury's and Archant, publishers of the Crow.

With so much to see and do you will be spoilt for choice. With local, national and food from around the world being on display, there will be something to suit everyone's taste.

The event will appeal to everyone who is keen to see how to brush up on their culinary skills and how to choose the best products when shopping.

On sale will be a huge variety of products with food made from the finest ingredients by producers who are passionate about how their products are made and how their ingredients are grown.

An exciting programme of activities is planned with a continental food market, cookery theatre and schools cookery as well as tutored tastings, hands on workshops.

And to wash the food down there will be organic real ales and other tasty beverages on sale.

For the gardener there will be plants for sale, ideas for landscaping and garden design, allotments, barbecues as well as garden furniture and machinery for sale plus much, much more.

The event is open between 10am and 5pm on both days.