Selling organic and locally-sourced food throughout the three-day event, the River Cottage team will stage a series of food-themed workshops

Writer, broadcaster and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage Canteen will be feeding thousands of festival-goers at Fairport's Cropredy Convention music festival in August.
 
River Cottage is making Cropredy the lynchpin of its first year of catering at festivals. As well as selling organic and locally-sourced food throughout the three-day event, the River Cottage team will stage a series of food-themed workshops to pass on their knowledge of the garden, kitchen and hedgerow to young festival goers.
 
 
River Cottage only works with partners who share its ethics and ideals and Fairport's Cropredy Convention shares Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's commitment to the environment. In recent years the festival has worked towards greater sustainability, increased recycling and a reduced carbon footprint.
 
 
As well as the River Cottage Canteen, Cropredy's audience can choose from 20-odd other caterers serving everything from Goan fish curry and homemade vegetarian fare to burgers and traditional fish and chips. There's Fair Trade coffee, freshly-squeezed lemonade and Cropredy's renowned real ale bar run by Wadworth, the Devizes brewery.
 
Acclaimed as one of Britain's friendliest music festivals, the event presents three days of music in the open air. Now in its thirtieth year, Fairport's Cropredy Convention is Oxfordshire's longest-established festival and will star Status Quo, Rick Wakeman, top American act Little Feat and of course, Fairport themselves.

The festival takes place on 12, 13 and 14 August.