During the this financial year, we delivered a programme of wellbeing and educational activities at our community market garden and across the wider community. By the end of March 2025, this work had delivered the following benefits to the community Regular access to nature-based health promotion activities We continued to run our three regular educational wellbeing sessions, we ran 40 Growing Food and Friendships sessions (Tuesdays 10am-3pm). Adults (with mental health and social challenges) grow and harvest food, then cook and eat a delicious healthy meal together. 14 Growing Strong family friendly sessions (Sundays 11am-4pm). An intergenerational mix of people (ages 5 to 75) play, grow and harvest food, then cook and eat a delicious healthy meal together. 9 Growing Skills (Thursdays 10am-3pm) a smaller group session, suitable for adults (including those with more complex support needs) who are seeking to gain more in-depth landwork skills and long-term volunteering experience. All of our sessions are free, on a drop in basis offering flexibility (regular attendance is encouraged). In total we ran 63 wellbeing and educational sessions on the land, providing engagements to 227 people (61 unique individuals, comprising 48 adults and 13 children). With 12 people attending regularly. We organised two seasonal open days- An end of year Winter Solstice Celebration in December (a social event to celebrate the light returning) and Imbolc Winter Work Party in February (where we coppiced willow together). We were also able to explore new activities on the land, hosting one Corporate volunteering day and also providing a venue for Better Nature Ecotherapy to host monthly nature therapy sessions at our Market Garden. Educational opportunities We provided ongoing learning opportunities through our regular outdoor sessions which run year-round (agroecological food growing, healthy eating, ecological land management including forest gardening, hedgerow and mature garden maintenance). We held 8 educational events attended by 142 people; free talks, workshops, films and activities including Land based Living: Livelihoods & Legalities with Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo from Land, Food Medicine, How to make your own natural fertilisers with Caroline Wajsblum from Frome Field 2 Fork CIC, Internationally acclaimed ecopoet Helen Moore exploring salmon, science and spirituality in her book river/run Ecopoetry, Mindful nature connection with Better Nature Ecotherapy CIC, Wood for the Trees new films about Continuous Cover Forestry, medicinal gardening with Radix Herbal Hub, a demo and talk about gut health with Somerset Kimchi and Kraut and learning how to grow mushrooms on logs with Land, Food Medicine. We held our own course on the Theory, Design and Creation of Forest Gardens (ecological, regenerative and productive habitats) in a series of 4 workshops for anyone with a space to grow no matter how big or small with 6 people attending. We also took one educational day trip to the Agroforestry Research Trust for 5 regular volunteers and 4 members of the public in partnership with Green & Healthy Frome. Improved access to and support for local, ecologically produced and nutritious food at affordable prices One of our main goals in 2024 was to scale up our vegetable production, and despite being widely regarded as the most challenging growing season on record, we were able to achieve an output of 402kg of fresh produce( a fourfold increase). As well as making more produce available to offer to our participants (free/ on donation), we added two new hyperlocal food businesses to our customer base. The increased veg sales contributed towards Frome’s community food resilience. We organised 2 large community outreach events, with the support of 16 volunteers; Potato Day and Seed Swap in February and Pumpkin Day and Harvest Swap in October. Providing people with the chance to connect with the wider community, celebrate the season and have fun together. These had 715 attendees in total, both with an indoor market offering products such as seeds, plants, fruit trees, tools, local food, community project info stalls, workshops, fun children's activities and crafts. Pumpkin Day and Harvest Swap in October 2024 was supported by Frome Town Council’s Community Grant. 210 Adults (and their kids who were were not counted) attended In February 2025 505 adults (and their kids who were not counted) attended Frome Potato Day and Seed Swap. We continued our relationship as founding members of the Frome Food Network, supporting the creation of a new ‘Canteen’, a project to help local people access responsibly-sourced, wholesome food in an inclusive communal setting, inspired by projects and concepts such as The Long Table, The Big Lunch, the comforting but somewhat short-lived British Restaurants of the 1940s, and the National Food Service. Canteen is a pop up, pay what you can community restaurant serving affordable, delicious, and nutritious food. One of our directors also took part in a panel discussion with local farmers, food producers and environmentalists after a showing of the film Six Inches of Soil which tells the inspiring story of young English farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food - to heal the soil, our health and provide for local communities.

This is an ongoing user-led project, with our participants as our main stakeholders. We include all of our participants in the design of the project and use their feedback to adapt our activities around their needs. This year a core group of 14 volunteers fed into our project development and delivery through group discussions and 1-1s. They represent a number of stakeholder groups including people with mental health issues; those isolated due to age or being unemployed; autistic people; people with chronic health conditions and teenagers. We held a New Year Visioning event in January with our core volunteers. The session brought everyone at Frome Field 2 Fork together to reflect on what we had achieved, be honest about the challenges we were facing, and decide how to focus our energy going forward. Through shared reflection, open discussion and brainstorming, we explored what FF2F meant to us, what was getting in the way, and what opportunities were worth pursuing. We finished with clear priorities, fresh ideas, and people stepping up to help turn them into action. Feedback was that volunteers valued our sessions greatly for allowing them to connect with nature, learn how to grow and cook healthy food and connect with other people in a safe space, they shared that they wanted to get more involved with helping to organise events, and that they would like to focus on more creative activities, crafts using natural materials such as clay and willow, and adding more colourful and playful, child focused elements to our garden. There was also a request for more gardening activities suited to people with lower mobility such as raised beds, a greater focus on herbalism and creating more value added products. We reached out to engage with the wider community through a total of 4 events this year including the Pumpkin Day, Potato Day and Winter Solstice Celebration and Imbolc Winter Work Party. We also continued to work collaboratively as founding members, with the Nature Prescribing Frome partnership, supported by the Community Sustainability Lead at Frome Medical Practice, now with 18 local service provision organisations working together to support each other, increase wellbeing and environmental outcomes for Frome, and promote our services to the public and healthcare professionals.

Caroline Wajsblum £6723 Katherine Bevan £4923

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