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More details released for Coldharbour Farm’s summertime festival

Ottery St Mary’s popular award-winning café Coldharbour Field Kitchen has released more information about its mini festival on August 5.

The Summer Sessions are a chance to see six brilliant home grown bands: The Barefoot Bandit, Revelation Roots, Gigi and the Grits, Tricky Situation, The Kieron Garret Quartet and The Kabins. But as well as enjoying performances, festival goers will be...

Festival first for Coldharbour Field Kitchen!

Award-winning café Coldharbour Field Kitchen in Ottery St Mary is adding to the summer vibes this year with its inaugural mini festival.

'The Summer Sessions’ takes place on Saturday August 5 with the perfect combination of live music, food and drink.

With just 400 tickets up for grabs this is going to be a friendly, intimate event just perfect to while away a summer Saturday...

Otter supports the Otters!

Otter Garden Centres has become a proud sponsor of Ottery St Mary AFC , helping to give the men’s first team a smart updated look.

Financial Controller Robert Brown visited the pitch at Washbrook Meadows to meet with club Chairman Mark Isaacs and Joint Managers Rikki Pitter and Pat Curtis. Robert was delighted to hand over the very smart new strip in the team’s signature blue....

Man standing on a bridge in Ottery St Mary

Flowers for St Saviours

Locals and visitors to Ottery St Mary should spot a little extra colour in the town after Otter Garden Centre planted up some containers for St Saviours bridge.

Group Bedding Plants Manager Richard Lovering and his team brought eight troughs to the bridge, filled with a cheerful mix of polyanthus plants in purple and yellow. They added some red tulips too, so there will be an...

Devon Tourism Awards

Gold for Coldharbour!

The co-founders of one of East Devon’s newest eateries, Coldharbour Field Kitchen in Ottery St Mary were almost speechless when they scooped gold at the Devon Tourism Awards.

Andrea Broadhurst and Beth Ashfield attended the awards event held at Home Park, Plymouth Argyle Football Club, where the Field Kitchen was a finalist in the Casual Dining category.

“To say we were stunned...

Police appeal after hit and run in Ottery St Mary

Police were called to Cadhay Lane in Ottery St Mary at around 11.30am on Thursday 19 January after pedestrians found a woman injured in the road.

Emergency services attended and a local road closure was put in place.

A local woman in her 60’s was conveyed to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital where she later sadly died; her next of kin have been made aware. It is believed that...

Christmas tree in Ottery St Mary

Standing tall! 15ft home grown Christmas tree for Ottery town centre

Ottery’s Otter Garden Centres are proud to have grown the Christmas tree for the town once again, and this year it’s a whopper!

The 15ft Picea Abies is grown by Otter locally and this one was selected not just for its height but also for its full shape for the location.

A team from the garden centre came along with the tree delivery to help Ottery resident Richard Coley....

Coldharbour Brunch Scone

Scones taken to next level at Coldharbour!

The Coldharbour Farm Field Kitchen team will be reinventing the traditional approach to scones as part of this year’s Taste East Devon festival.

Andrea Broadhurst and Beth Ashfield are keen to show off the scone in a new light with their special event, Scone Sundae.

Beth, who devised the dishes, says “These aren’t just your usual scones! They’re extra-large and topped with some...

Two restaurant owners in Ottery St Mary

“Wonderful support” for new Ottery field kitchen

It’s just two months since Coldharbour Farm’s Field Kitchen served its first customers - and it’s already proving to be a phenomenal success with locals and visitors to the area.

The new venture by Andrea Broadhurst and Beth Ashfield opened in June, building on the success of the temporary field kitchen they created during the pandemic.

With its quirky, welcoming inside dining...

Coldharbour Field Kitchen views

Food with a view!

A stunning new field kitchen with outstanding views has opened in Slade Road, Ottery St Mary.

Coldharbour Field Kitchen is the culmination of many months of hard work for Andrea Broadhurst and business partner Beth Ashfield. It replaces the original café they opened with their farm shop in 2016, on the farm that Andrea’s grandfather started over 80 years’ ago.

“The idea was...

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