Community Food & Growing Events

Please send details of your events, workshops, training and opportunities to info@somersetcommunityfood.org.uk

March 2024:

Sat 23 March - Wedmore Village Farm Launch - 10-4 - more info

Starting in March - Eco Food Creations - Raised Beds Sessions (free) - Saturdays 10-2 - running March-August - more info

12-24 March - Food Waste Action Week - more info

April 2024

20 April - Sedgemoor Seed Swap - 10am - Purple Spoon Cafe, Highbridge - more info

20 April - 6 Inches of Soil film showing - Wellington Arts Centre

Plus

  • 1-30 April - Food for Life Plant & Share Month - access the toolkit to plan your event - more info
  • 22-29 April - Good to Grow Week - register with Sustain and plan & promote your activity - more info

May 2024

11 May, 10-12 - Glastonbury Seedling and Plant Swap - more info

9-12 May - Bridies Farm - Open Days (tbc):

  • Thursday - Networking & open day - herb gardens drop-in, foraging walk & medicine circle planting
  • Friday - Gentle volunteering activities, including a Patchwork Picnic!
  • Saturday - Family day, workshops, talks & 'Seed Dating', food, drinks, music, market & more.
  • Sunday - Farm visits and films & music at the Red Brick Building, including 6 Inches of Soil showing and talk in the evening. The farm site will be open on Sunday for people to drop in.

19-21 May - Plotgate Community Farm Skill-share weekend - more info coming soon

June 2024

Sat 1 June - Root Connections - Open garden day- details tbc.

Sun 9 Jun - Green Scythe Fair - From 11am - a number of community food projects will have stalls at this event - more info

October 2024

Sun 13 Oct - Wells Food Festival - 10:30-4:30 - find local food projects in the 'Food for Thought' tent - more info

November 2024

22-23 November - Save the date for 'Food Alive' - Sustainable Food Somerset's 2-day conference at the Bath and West Showground.

Food and wellbeing calendar:

If you're planning food and wellbeing activities to promote your community food project this year, use this calendar to link in your activities to national and international campaign dates: Food & wellbeing calendar 2024.

This was collated as part of the Somerset Food Resilience project, a collective project to map and co-ordinate community food projects across Somerset.

Food and wellbeing calendar for January and February