{"id":22783,"date":"2019-06-23T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22783"},"modified":"2019-06-23T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:08:08","slug":"abingdon-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22783","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062302.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nOn the other bank of the River Thames, at Rye Farm Meadow, on Saturday, big crowds were attracted to the Abingdon Food Festival.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062312.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nIt featured a lot of caterers with flavours from all round the world.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062306.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe Greek Souvlaki stall looked the most popular. I did not ask why people were queuing there when most stalls had much smaller queues.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062310.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe cookery displays also looked popular.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062308.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nThe event is organised by the Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper. These Rotary members are from Oxford Rotary but told me that Abingdon Vesper are high flying stars in the world of Rotary for the big events they organise and the amount they raise for charity. In 2019 the Food Festival profit goes to good causes, 50% to the Thames Valley Air Ambulance.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062303.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nMusic was provided by bands at a central stage. This is the Ock Street Band, a group of Abingdon based musicians named after an ancient Abingdon road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062301.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nLike any rotary event there were also a lot of community stalls. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonehillgardens.co.uk\/\">Stonehill Community Gardens<\/a> in Abingdon have land off Oday Hill where people can learn about gardening. It is open every Wednesday, 10 am \u2013 4 pm.They say <em>Drop-in or stay all day\u200b. Volunteer and get involved \u2026 be closer to nature, learn and share skills and make friends.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19062307.jpg\" alt=\"Abingdon Food Festival\" \/><br \/>\nI had a go with a Virtual Reality headset that gave an idea what it is like with dementia at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belleviecare.co.uk\/\">Bellevie<\/a> care stall. They are a commercial group looking to expand in the Abingdon area. They aim to create care teams that give personalised care for the elderly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the other bank of the River Thames, at Rye Farm Meadow, on Saturday, big crowds were attracted to the Abingdon Food Festival. It featured a lot of caterers with flavours from all round the world. The Greek Souvlaki stall looked the most popular. I did not ask why people were queuing there when most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}