Events

Charles DowdingGardener's questions and answers.

Gardening questions answered by: Alison Shingler (Gants Mill and Garden) (Chair), Eric Bloodworth (Florabunda Nursery), Debbie Chard (Barters Plant Centre) and Charles Dowding (Grower and Writer). Plants and books on sale.

2pm, Thursday, 9th July at the Cheese and Grain, Frome

Des Harris is organising another series of Food and Land Visits this year.

SUNDAY 17th MAY:
Walled Garden at Horningsham (Longleat). Home of Simpson’s Seeds. A lovely quiet secluded place where a lot of interesting propagation is going on!

SUNDAY 14th JUNE:
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project near Glastonbury. Run by organic grower Colum Pawson on behalf of local people who want to grow their own produce.

SUNDAY 19th JULY:
Roundhill Cottage, Leigh-on-Mendip. Smallholding run by Brenda Rogers and Julian Back.

SUNDAY 27th SEPTEMBER:

Sustainable Frome are running some bread making workshops.

A series of 4 monthly Bread Workshops supported by Sustainable Frome

WHEN?

No. 1: Sunday 25th January (coming up)

No. 2: Sunday 22nd February

No. 3: Sunday 22nd March

No. 4: Sunday 26th April

WHAT TIME?

10.00 a.m till after lunch (no need to bring bread!)

WHERE?

26 High Street, Frome (opposite Sun Inn, off Catherine Street) for sessions 1, 3 & 4

85 Nunney Road (for session 2 in Feb)

WHO?

Stina Harris (for sessions 1, 3 & 4)

Peter MacFadyen (for session 2)

HOW MUCH?

Come to the Lamb Inn, Frome at 7.30pm on 13th February, 2009 to learn about and contribute to Food Frome's new projects. These include:

* A Roman Feast Film
* A Local Food Directory
* An Oral History Project

There will also be another chance to see "Quince Venison and Peas", our film about creating a 17C feast.

Food Frome are cooperating with the Frome Story Circle on a stall at Frome Farmers Market on January 24th. There will be free tastings and a quiz.

Thursday November 13
Trinity Hall 8pm (doors open 7.30)
Final Event and Book Launch
FREE

We shall be launching the four booklets produced by Food Frome project members:
Fair Trade Frome
The Foodfrome Local Cookbook
Food and Drink in Roman Somerset
Growing our Own

Saturday October 25
Trinity Hall 8pm (Doors open 7.30)
Quince, Venison and Peas (film)
The final event of the 2008 Mendip Food Festival
Tickets: £5 on the door (free for seniors and children)

This film recreates a seventeenth century feast (in a seventeenth century house) and covers cooking and obtaining ingredients from local suppliers.
The film is followed by tastings of some of the dishes prepared for the feast, and by a discussion with members of Food Frome who have helped to make this fabulous film.

Frome Festival 2008
It's August already - nearly a whole month since the Festival and time to look back at Food Frome's contribution to the sensational 2008 Frome Festival - 'Best in the West' (although Glastonbury's not bad either). In the end we sponsored or ran four events:

Deep Soup
This was certainly the longest event of the Festival. Artist-cuisinière Miche Fabre Lewin prepared a healing Deep Soup over two complete days (Friday and Saturday).

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.

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.