Do come if you can. The event used to be known as the Smallholder Show, then metamorphosised into the Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival and then, about a month before the event, the organisers announced it would be known henceforth as the Royal Welsh Spring Festival! Not exactly a case of "does what it says on the tin", but there you go!
Anyway, a cracking event (
www.rwas.co.uk). Usually gets over 25,000 people over the two days (21/22nd May) and is a kind of miniature Royal Welsh Show (the big one - July 18-21 - the biggest show of its kind in the UK). Much easier to get round in one day than the main Royal Welsh, but lots to see and, as mentioned earlier, plenty to do indoors if the weather is bad (though it's forecast warm for this weekend up here).
Not sure of the full running order, but I know the modern pigs are being judged on Saturday from 9am and the traditionals (the colourful ones/ones with personality!) on the Sunday, followed by the championship.
It's a great show for anyone just starting in smallholding, or thinking about it. Not like your average "county" show. All sorts there, from livestock to green energy ideas. As Skidley says, I'm doing a talk on starting with pigs on the Saturday, 12 noon, in Speakers' Corner in the Glamorgan Hall (full programme of talks planned on various subjects both Sat and Sun), and I'm in the ring with the Tamworths on the Sunday.
If anyone fancies meeting up, the clock tower is a good landmark. Top of the hill, near the President's pavilion.
Hope to see some of you in the pig building - come and see some of the herd and ask as many questions as you like.
Liz
