East Devon Food Festival returns this year, and the Donkey Sanctuary is hosting 'Sowing with Donkeys'.

The 16-day East Devon Food Festival will take place on 3-18 September. The festival will unite the best local producers, restaurants, chefs and venues to celebrate Devon's fantastic food offerings. On offer will be a range of activities, from farm feasts to seafood tasting experiences, brewery open days and BBQs.

There will be events at The Pig, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage, Heron Farm and The Deer Park.

On September 15, The Donkey Sanctuary's award-winning restaurant, The Kitchen, will be serving a two-course vegan meal, using locally produced and seasonal food. Diners will choose between two exciting menus prepared by the resident chef.

The food will include forest fungi wild mushrooms, slow roasted tomato and rosemary focaccia with black garlic dressing and roasted butternut squash. For pudding, guests can choose between apple and blackberry almond granola crumble with vanilla custard and Lyme Bay winter gin and blackberry coulis, or Lyme Bay spiced lugger rum panna cotta with baked cinnamon figs, rosemary shortbread and fig leaf syrup.

After the meal, one of the charities' conservation team will escort visitors around the sanctuary so they can learn more about the work of The Donkey Sanctuary and the charity's biodiversity work.

Sowing with Donkeys event cost £18.50 and you can book tickets here.

You can find out more information about the East Devon Food Festival here.

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