Thanks to funding from our friends at the Mendip Hills National Landscape and the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) grant, this spring we have been able to welcome a fantastically diverse mix of community groups to The Farm. In their time here, the groups have got stuck into a variety of jobs to help our field team prepare for the upcoming growing season, as well as enhancing habitats for wildlife, and soaking up the space and beauty around them. The groups all brought spadefuls of enthusiasm and achieved an incredible amount.
The groups have included:
- Refugees Welcome North Somerset, who planted our broad beans and enjoyed a delicious lunch together
- Missing Link, who offer support services for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and abuse, came along to a variety of sessions to help with farming and take part in some natural and heritage crafts
- Bath Carers helped with seed sowing and have made a fantastic dead hedge around the pond for wildlife
- Second Step, a mental health and housing charity, planted sugar snap peas in our polytunnels and made another dead hedge.
Your support means we get to keep sharing this special place with groups like these, so a big thank you to all of you for buying our veg boxes, coming to our events and supporting us in other ways. If you see broad beans or sugar snap peas in your veg box in the coming months, do remember the benefit your food shop has provided to so many different people.
