One of the south west’s most beautifully set and eclectic festivals returns to the grounds of Port Eliot House this summer with something for everyone. Whether it’s music, literature, food, crafts or fashion the Port Eliot Festival has it all.

Flower & Fodder Stage returns with the festival’s finest collection of chefs, food writers, gardeners and growers with Cornish festival food and drink prepared, shared and sold across the ancient estate.

Set right next to Port Eliot House, the Flower and Fodder Stage invites you to treat yourself to food prepared (and shared) before your eyes by celebrated and soon-to-be-celebrated chefs and restaurateurs. Port Eliot’s annual flower show is a big part of Flower and Fodder, with arrangement classes to enter, and discussions on gardening and growing your own food throughout.

Among the chefs, growers, gardeners and food writers coming to Port Eliot are chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter, Rick Stein; Skye Gyngell, one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed chefs, who recently opened her first solo restaurant, Spring, at Somerset House; cook, food writer and television presenter Thomasina Miers, co-founder and Executive Chef of Wahaca Restaurants, cooking fresh food inspired by the food markets of Mexico; Richard Bertinet, who trained as a baker from the age of 14 and whose books, Dough, Crust, Cook & Pastry are modern classics; traveller and historian Jason Goodwin, whose novels follow Yashim, an imperial sleuth and impeccable cook in Ottoman Istanbul, will launch Yashim's Istanbul Cook Book at Port Eliot.

Beautiful Cornish food will be served and sold throughout. Among the new highlights, Port Eliot’s Orangery will be taken over by chef and owner of the Posh Pasty Company, James Strawbridge, to become the Cornish Picnic & BBQ Smokehouse, a new restaurant serving up Cornish brunch, Posh pasties, classic cream teas, local charcuterie and exciting outdoor BBQ seafood. In the evenings, it will take bookings for gourmet Clam Bake and Port Eliot Feasts. On Saturday and Sunday it will open an outdoor Cornish Festival Market, offering the perfect picnic.

Festival Director, Catherine St Germans, said “We’re very confident that the food on offer all over the site cannot be beaten by any other UK festival. Every year, when we start to plan the festival, it can be a bit daunting when we start with two very large pieces of paper – one blank and needing to be filled with the hefty wish-list of artists which covers the other sheet. Months later, we’re extremely delighted and a little disbelieving that so many of those on our wish list will be joining us in Cornwall this summer.”

On the music stages this year are Ezra Furman, The Unthanks, The Lilac Time, Marika Hackman Krar Collective, Kid Wave, John Otway, Faerground Accidents, RSVP, Lail Arad, Eaves Louis Eliot and the Embers, Mad Dog McCrea, Vince Lee and Becca Langsford, Rory Butler Mostar Diving Club, My Darling Clementine, Police Dog Hogan, Mik Artistik's Ego Trip Will McNichol and Luke Selby, Susie Mac, Tankus the Henge, Love Nor Money Grooveyard While on the On Caught By The River stage will be the Archie Bronson Outfit, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Kurt Jackson and John Sauven Stealing Sheep, Chris Watson, Andrew Weatherall, Jane Weaver John Andrews, Virginia and Florence Astley, Patrick Barkham, Bizarre Rituals, Andy Childs Mathew Clayton, Tim Dee & Philip Marsden, Remembered For A While: A Nick Drake Companion Folklore Tapes, Pete Fowler, Fumaca Preta, Gwenno, The Harlequin Dynamite Marching Band, The Heavenly Jukebox, Hooton Tennis Club, Richard King, Clive Langer and the Clang Group The London Sound Survey, John Lewis Stempel, Nina Lyon, Matthew and Me Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou, Katharine Norbury, Marcus O’Dair, Red River Dialect, Rob St. John, Emma Warren, Roy Wilkinson’s Pop & Nature Quiz. Resident DJ: Stephen ‘Spoonful’ Parker. Also featuring Totnes’s beloved Drift Record Shop There will be a full line-up of writers, wits, conversationalists (and Idlers) as well as the Wardrobe Department for fashion.

The festival, an uncategorisable feast of music, words, food, fashion, comedy, nature, art, history and eccentricity, runs from July 30 to August 2. For more details go to porteliotfestival.com/