Amazing Crab/Lobster Pot Demonstration Sunday 9th April

We are really lucky to have David French as part of the Food Festival this year, doing a live Lobster/Crab pot making demonstration, he will also have some to sell too, they make fabulous garden ornaments!  The structures are made using age old techniques and using willow from the Somerset Levels. David is one of just a handful of people still making these pots by hand in the traditional way.  He will be on the Green all day making them, so do go and see him and talk to him about this craft. April 2017...... He will be on home soil in Budleigh, this will be a first for him in his home town, this will be my first festival. Most people in Budleigh are probably not aware of it's past fishing history or much about the beach and how it was, the crab pots he makes were once common place on the beach, this will be the perfect chance to see one being made the same way as it once was, for those who don't know me him he is the fifth generation of his family to still be making these pots, the Mears family were one of the four main family's who fished the waters off Budleigh , fishing as a full time occupation has all but ceased now in this area for various reasons but back in the day it was a very busy area, the main catches being Herring/Mackerel/Crab/Lobster/Scallops etc, come along and talk to him and he is hoping that he might even be able to coax Gerald Mears his Uncle to come along and chat!!!!!