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The perfect family festival

Well, what a year
that was!

Another 8,000 of you through the door in only our second ever year. We hope you had a great time! The team are now off for a well-earned rest, and once we've had a bit of a break, planning for 2026 will begin!

See you next year

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  • We came over from the IOW for the day today and had a really good day out and can’t wait to attend next year.

  • We had such a great day! Well organised easy to park, toilets lovely and clean and prices really reasonable.

  • Well done New Forest Food Festival a fantastic well run event. Hope all the team have a well earned rest now.

  • Really enjoyable festival. Extremely well organised, spacious with lots of choice and variety of stalls and vendors. Well done to everyone involved. We’ll be back next year.

  • Had a fabulous day there yesterday. Perfect size, lots of tasters, straw bales everywhere for seating, I LOVED IT!!

  • Thank you all involved… we had a fab day, ate loads , loved the live music, plenty of places to sit and the kids had fun too.

A taste of the weekend

A big thank you to this year’s sponsors

Our aim is to help our community enjoy their garden, home and workplace, across Dorset, Hampshire and the New Forest.

Lexus Bournemouth, part of the family-owned Snows Motor Group, is where luxury meets sustainability, innovation and reliability.

New Forest Shortbread made by Tracy Thew at Burley Rails Cottage.

Wessex Internet delivers full fibre broadband to hard-to-reach homes and businesses across the New Forest, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, bridging the digital divide.

The first of our kind, Chewton Glen is an 18th century luxury Country House Hotel in the New Forest with 130 acres of Hampshire's countryside as our playground. Our 5-star Relais & Chateaux hotel and spa is set in one of the best locations in the UK.

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