Builth Wells Smallholder Show and Garden Festival

The 2009 Smallholder Show and Garden Festival has again demonstrated its popularity as a spring weekend event by attracting 22,258 visitors to the showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells.  The attendance fell just short of last year’s total (23,318) in spite of the combined deterrents of the recession and extremely wet weather.

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Smallholders Show and Garden Festival

Held in the spring, the Smallholders and Garden Festival is usually the first event in a year held at the Royal Agricultural Showground in Builth Wells.

The Festival includes classes and displays for rare and traditional breeds of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats and you are likely to see llamas, alpacas, poultry, pets, demonstrations covering bees, woodland crafts, farriery, farm machinery and equipment and vintage machinery, and magnificent and colourful displays of flowers and garden produce among the 350 trade stands on the showground.

Farmers Market at the Smallholders and Garden Festival

The focus of the Farmers' Market is on artisan produce from small independent producers, many of whom bring products directly from their farms. Although the Smallholder and Garden Festival is a national event, the food producers at the show are predominantly from Wales and the border counties.

There has been an amazing growth in farm diversification over the last few years with some of the finest foods you will find anywhere being produced. The Royal Welsh Showground, and its excellent Food Hall is the natural home to showcase what is fast becoming a jewel in the crown of Welsh food and agriculture.

Some of the products you are likely to find at the festival include amongst the meat: lamb, mutton, beef, wild boar, venison, game, and kid meat. A range of exquisite cheeses (cow, goat and ewe), Wines, cider, perry liquers and fruit wines, hand made dairy ice cream and a deluge of jams, chutneys, preserves, cakes and breads ... and the list goes on.

Green Horizons Exhibition

Green Horizons was a newly developed feature of the 2008 Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival, moving forward this initiative significantly from the first Green Horizons event held the previous year. It was designed to enable traders and organisations with links to ‘green’ issues to promote their goods and services to the 25,000 visitors to the show, so that those visitors could have access to the information they need in order to do their bit towards caring for the environment and combating climate change.