Pumpkin Day & Harvest Swap

Frome’s Pumpkin Day & Harvest Swap is back, with even more focus on good, delicious, and sustainable food.

Join us at:

 The Cheese and Grain

 Sunday, October 29th

 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Organiser Caroline Wajsblum from Frome Field2Fork has enlisted Frome Food Network and FutureShed to help put together a hyperlocal pop-up food market and a pay-what-you-can lunch including pumpkin soup and Somerset apple cake.

“We’re drawing on some brilliant talent in the area, to make Pumpkin Day as fun, interesting, and accessible for people, whatever their interest in food,” says Hugh Thomas, Frome Food Network’s co-ordinator.

There'll be workshops throughout the day: Jo Tamplin from MoodFoods.Info will be sharing her philosophy of using food to support healing and a healthier and happier life; Get Pickled Somerset will be teaching us some simple home preserving techniques; and Frome Field2Fork will introduce us to Forest Gardening.

Kids will have plenty to keep busy - creating natural, recycled, harvest-inspired crafts with Frome Families for the Future & and helping Frome Seed Library harvest the thousands of seeds donated by local growers while learning how to harvest their own plants. Under the guidance of Jo Harrington (founder of Frome Chocolate Festival), they’ll also have the chance to decorate their own chocolate-covered apples with healthy sprinkles.

Those coming will be invited to explore climate and health narratives within food – what foods locally to Frome are better for the planet?

We can't wait to see you there! Welcoming kids, low waged, students and UC for FREE, with a £3 donation for adults.  Tickets on the door.