Huge food and gardening festival returning to stunning Greater Manchester gardens for third year

A food and gardening festival will be returning to a stunning Salford garden attraction later this month for three days.

The popular Festival of Flavours will return to RHS Garden Bridgewater, in Worsley, from September 13 to 15 and will feature live demonstrations by top chefs and passionate home cooks, as well as a food market, garden tours, celebrity chef appearances and plenty more family-friendly fun.

Free to attend for RHS Members, the festival will feature live demonstrations from celebrity chef Ching-He Huang and Ben Chaplin, Executive Chef at Salford’s The Black Friar, as well as Great British Bake Off The Professionals stars Harwood's Patisserie.

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Chef Mary-Ellen McTague, formerly of Chorlton restaurant The Creameries and now fronting the upcoming Pip restaurant within the soon-to-open Treehouse Manchester hotel, will also make an appearance at the festival, as will RHS Therapeutic Gardener Ozichi Brewster, Desi Cooking chef Sarah Woods, and The Bird at Birtle chef and owner Andrew Nutter.

There will also be a series of talks across the weekend - ranging from beekeeping classes to rum tasting sessions - from the likes of The Bee Centre, Chorlton Cheesemongers, Life on Pig Row, and Salford Rum.

The festival, now in its third year, will also give visitors a chance to learn more about ‘plot-to-plate’ eating - where ingredients and seasonal produce picked from the gardens at RHS Garden Bridgewater will be used to make fresh and flavoursome dishes.

People will be able to take edible tours of the Kitchen Garden, as well as the opportunity to sample prize-winning produce and browse a range of local