Farmer’s wife Helen Rebanks is one of the stars of this year’s Taste Cumbria festival in Wigton.
The event takes place on Saturday April 20 and the main festival is on Water Street car park from 10am to 5pm, with Helen’s Q&A afterwards in Cornerstone Methodist Church on High Street from 6.30pm.
She will appear with popular broadcaster Kate Walby, a familiar face on ITV Border television.
Helen, whose first book The Farmer’s Wife: My Life in Days is a Sunday Times bestseller, farms at Matterdale near Ullswater with her husband James, who shone a spotlight on their family and work on Twitter where he is known as Herdy Shepherd.
Helen’s book is a memoir, interspersed with the recipes which have played a part in her life and it is described as ‘a gorgeous portrait of life at Helen Rebanks’ Lake District farmhouse as well as a heartfelt and honest delve into the truth about the grind and the glory of keeping a home and raising a family today.’
Kate is a broadcast journalist who is known across the north for her work at ITV. She was a presenter at ITV Yorkshire’s Calendar and now works for ITV Border in Cumbria.
Helen will be signing copies of her book after the event and tickets, which cost £15 each, are available now from www.visitallerdale.co.uk/things-to-do/taste-cumbria-wigton/
There are loads of other attractions planned for the Wigton festival, from food and drink stalls to a young entrepreneur’s market, and lots of live music and family entertainment.
The Taste Cumbria events are organised by Cumberland Council.
The partners for this year’s Taste Cumbria festival in Wigton are Wigton Town Council, NADT, Free for All Recycling, Rock With and Cornerstone Methodist Church.
