A wet June and a sunny start to July has created perfect conditions for the green-fingered growers heading for Moreton Show on Saturday, September 7th. The Home and Garden marquee bursts with colour every year as growers from across the Cotswolds compete to win trophies for the best fruit, vegetables, flower arranging, art and craft. The floral classes include competitions for roses, dahlias, chrysanthemums and many other blooms.   One of the highlights is the Sybil Limbrick Cup, awarded to the top entry from a family who produce the best three feet-wide display on a theme ..

 The Shaw family are the stars of this year’s Moreton Show poster.   Farmer, Mike Shaw features with his young son and daughter, Sid and Mia and their prizewinning Poll Hereford cow, Thornysure 1 Pippa. Mike and his wife, Caroline, a former special needs teacher, farm 80 acres on a Warwickshire County Council farm at Ilmington, near Shipston-on-Stour, where they have Poll Herefords and a suckler herd.   Mike studied at Hindlip Agricultural College in Worcester and worked on farms from the age of 14.  He farmed a smallholding before finally renting his first f..

Moreton Show has a new horse section secretary for 2019, as the show’s equine classes become more popular than ever.   Around 850 horses and 1,000 riders will head to the showground in Moreton-in-Marsh on Saturday, September 7th to compete in almost 70 classes in six show rings. Jess Parkes has joined the Moreton team as the new horse secretary, taking over from Liz Day, who ran the equine section for 14 years. Jess, a mum of two from Upper Rissington, said: ‘I’m thrilled to be working at Moreton Show.  I’ve shown Cotswold sheep at the show in the past and I’ve always ..

There was a traffic-stopping treat for tractor lovers of all ages on Sunday (May 12) when the Bluebell Run took to the roads of the north Cotswolds. In all, 64 vehicles of all shapes, sizes and ages completed a 28-mile route that took in Charlton Abbots, Syreford, Guiting Power, the Cotswold Farm Park, Guiting Woods, Hailes Abbey and Winchcombe, raising £1,450 for Cancer Research UK. Organised by Moreton Show in conjunction with the North Cotswold Tractor Club, the convoy kept mainly to country lanes, estate roads and farm tracks and there were three fords to cross in Kineton, just t..