FROME Food Network, a group supporting locally produced healthy food in the town, is open to new members and have some upcoming pop-up events for people to get involved in.
The Frome Food Network emerged out of a workshop event at the town council, involving 40 stakeholders in the local food system. It is part of the Future Sheds project, a partnership between Edventure, Frome Medical Practice and Frome Town Council, supporting the town to become a healthy and green place to live.
A spokesperson for the Food Network said, “[at the workshop at the town council] we heard from one another about what challenges we faced in helping Frome become a more sustainable food town and it’s those challenges the network is looking at overcoming.
“For example, we’ve co-hosted marketing workshops as food network members wanted to better communicate their stories, we’ve put on social mixers to help local people involved in food connect and we’re running pop-up events for local producers to showcase their wares.
“Personally, one of my main goals within the network has been to help the Frome community make more informed choices around what they eat and drink in a local context – the result is our online magazine newsletter, The Wallfish Journal.
“Future Shed has been brilliant in incubating the network, offering advice on community groups, and exploring where the network can go and who it can support.”
The group is booked to have a stall at October’s Frome Independent Market, with apple pressing and mushroom growing and are encouraging people to become members of the network by adding their name and email to the mailing address via https://mailchimp/5623560579c8/frome-food-network. For details about other upcoming events, visit the Eventbrite page, www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/frome-food-hubs-20-mile-pop-up-feast-tickets-383864808977
