Events
SUSTAINABLE FROME MONTHLY MEETINGS
Submitted by Peter Macfadyen on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 20:48.Submitted by Peter Macfadyen on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 20:44.
Monthly meetings first Thursday of every month..... 7.00 to eat shared food (there is a bar).... 8.00 for whatever we are doing (usually pretty active).
Food and Land group meets regularly with seed swapping and mass seed purchase from CHASE.
Sustainable Frome aims to be an alliance of organisations and individuals interested in all subjects around sustainability. Meetings aim to be light and social - networking in a pretty stress free environment.
Link to the website on first page.
Open Farm Sunday - 1st June 2008
Submitted by Julian on Wed, 14/05/2008 - 11:00.Open Farm Sunday is a nationwide event backed by LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming), which aims to encourage people to visit local farms and find out more about how their food is produced.
Walk Farm near Witham Friary is one of the nearest farms to Frome taking part in this event. For more information see the Open Farm Sunday website.
Food Frome Summer Visits 2008
Submitted by Julian on Wed, 23/04/2008 - 08:23.Des Harris has arranged a series of five food/land visits for the summer. They will all – except the herbal walk – leave from the Badcox car park at 2.00 p.m on a Sunday (although three of them will be walkable and one cyclable), and they won’t cost you anything except two or three hours on a Sunday afternoon.
Here they are:
1. SUNDAY MAY 25: Vallis field – the home of Chris and Cordelia’s project and the Vallis Veg box scheme.
2. SUNDAY JUNE 8: Innox Hill private allotments – Tricia will show us round this lovely and lesser known allotment site.
Apple, Source and Ciderland, Wednesday 9th July 2008
Submitted by Julian on Wed, 23/04/2008 - 08:15.Apple, Source and Ciderland, Wednesday 9th July, 7.30, Rook Lane Arts Centre, Frome, with James Crowden (poet and countryman) and Sue Clifford (Common Ground), with cheese, apple juice and cider tastings.
This event is part of the 2008 Frome Festival.
Seventeenth Century Feast Film Premiere, Monday 7th July 2008
Submitted by Julian on Wed, 23/04/2008 - 08:14.Seventeenth Century Feast, Monday 7th July, Lamb Inn, Frome, 6pm, world premiere of the Food Frome film about dining in late seventeenth century England.
This event is part of the 2008 Frome Festival.
Grow Your Own
Submitted by John Boxall on Mon, 04/02/2008 - 19:01.Film set on an Allotment site is on at the Merlin on the 27th March
http://www.merlintheatre.co.uk/film.asp
So lets get down there!
Seed Swap, Friday 25 Jan
Submitted by Julian on Mon, 14/01/2008 - 17:37.Seed swap and ordering: Friday 25 Jan at 30 Broadway Frome 8pm. A joint event between Food Frome and the Land and Food faction of Sustainable Frome.
Potato Day, 9th February, Doulting Village Hall
Submitted by Julian on Tue, 08/01/2008 - 10:59.There will be a Potato Day at Doulting Village Hall on Saturday, 9th February. Last year they had a good selection of seed potatoes for sale including the blight resistant sarpos.
More information from Pennard Plants.
Apple pruning workshop
Submitted by Julian on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 22:25.St Louis School Orchard, Selwood Road, Frome
Sunday 20 January 2008
Leader: Tim Baines, Bath Organic Group
11am-3pm Free, but booking essential
Workshop will cover: why prune; tools and care of tools; practical work
pruning the St Louis trees.
More details will be sent when you book through John Payne.
