Veganuary
With over half a million people in the UK eating a plant based diet, veganuary has become a New Year’s resolution for many wanting to try a healthier start to the year. Devon has many brilliant vegetarian and vegan friendly places to visit and many menus in our local restaurants and pubs will cater for vegans.
Harbour house Café, Kingsbridge https://www.harbourhouse.org.uk/cafe.shtml
Our favourite eatery in Kingsbridge, this is a hidden gem in the town. Serving the most delicious homemade vegetarian and vegan breakfasts and lunches in a relaxed atmosphere. Both the food and the setting is a feast for the senses! Expect friendly service, indulgent salads and delicious cakes!
Willow Vegetarian Restaurant, Totnes
Possibly Devon’s oldest veggie restaurant, it has been tucked away in Totnes for over 30 years now. Willow serves up delicious and imaginative vegan and vegetarian dishes from locally sourced producers.
Riverford Farm Café, Buckfastleigh https://fieldkitchen.riverford.co.uk/
Famous for its huge selection of organic veg – the star of every plate (and the desserts are delicious too!!) Experience flavours whilst feasting on fresh seasonal produce from the Riverford Farm.
Seeds II, Totnes
This vegetarian café has a lovely variety of healthy and hearty food, in an “all you can eat” service, grab a plate and fill up from the buffet style selection.
The family here at Beeson Farm holiday cottages wish you a healthy and happy New Year!
Herbies restaurant, Exeter
Family-run place with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes hearty enough for meat eaters
Café Banana, Withleigh Nurseries, Tiverton http://www.withleighnurseries.co.uk/
Freshly prepared vegetarian and vegan food. using their own freshly picked produce whenever in season. It doesn’t get more locally sourced than this!
Apple Pressing Day was started nearly 20 years ago and locals join in with the tradition. Alongside the pressing of the picked apples, visitors can see and try crafts and artisan trades from days gone by such as charcoal making (https://www.dartmoorwoodcraft.co.uk/), wood turning and shave horse work (http://devonwoodworks.com/) or the delicate craft of willow 
weaving.
Arrive to a warm welcome with home-made cakes or a cream tea. Take a walk around our farm trail, sleep in crisp white linen in our 12th century farmhouse. You can start the day with a delicious breakfast – perhaps home-produced sausages and bacon, or fruit compotes with local honey and later go for a family wagon ride around the lanes. Finally, snuggle up in front of a log fire after a delicious, locally-sourced dinner or enjoy a walk to the local pub. We also run Christmas wreath-making courses at this time of year! Look on our Facebook page for details!
To make our guests’ stay as relaxing as possible I often cook for them, spending many happy hours in the kitchen concocting all manner of delicious things. The frequency of requests, not only for repeats, but also for my recipes, have resulted in our very own cookery book, ‘Favourites from the Primrose Farmhouse Kitchen’. From tasty starters and salads, through delicious main courses, to desserts and baking, including our hugely popular lemon drizzle cake, you are sure to find a tasty meal to enjoy.
The rhino, kindly loaned by Exeter School, was subsequently decorated with flowers and the unusual sight of the rhino entering the church can be viewed via a video on our Festival Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/creditonparishchurchfestivals. There have been other wonderful displays over the last few years too.
Free interesting and informative guided tours of the Governors Room and Church Tower will be available during the Festival. You will see floorboards dating from 1434, English Civil War artefacts, the retired town criers bell, the signature of Sir Redvers Buller and silver coins from a hoard found in 1896. In the Bell Tower you can see 12 bells (only 4 towers in Devon have 12 bells), clock mechanism and redundant chime barrel (musical box) and massive oak beams dating from 1532.