Really Wild Food and Countryside Festival

A festival about eating things you found yourself. Foraging walks along the hedgerows and the shore, cookery demonstrations using what has been gathered, seaweed, game, honey, cider, woodland crafts, birds of prey, and a lot of stalls selling produce from farms you will have driven past on the way.

The setting does most of the persuading. Held out on the St Davids peninsula, with the sea on three sides and the cathedral in the valley behind, it makes more sense than the same event would in a field anywhere else. Pembrokeshire's shoreline is genuinely one of the better foraging coasts in Britain — laver, samphire, cockles, mussels and razor clams are part of the local food culture rather than a novelty.

Who it suits. People who like eating and learning something. Children get animals, crafts and space to run about. It is not a music festival and it is not a fairground.

Practical. It is a field, so it is boots or wellies rather than trainers, and there is very little shade if the weather is good. Parking is on grass, which becomes interesting in a wet week. Bring cash as a backup — signal out here is patchy and card machines depend on it.

The honest bit. Small independent festivals in west Wales come and go, and this one has taken breaks. Check that it is running this year before booking accommodation around it. If it is not on, Whitesands and the coast path are ten minutes away and never cancel.