For this year's Somerset Food Trail, we will be opening up our Rock Farm Food Forest and Food Bank Market Garden to the public.

Saturday 23rd July - 11am - 3.30pm.

Come and find out more about the Food Forest Project and the work we are doing here at Rock Farm and our market garden.

There will be refreshments (and cake!) plus children's activities to keep the little ones entertained.

This is one of our more unusual projects in Shepton Mallet. In March 2019, the Food Forest Project planted the first three layers of a community food forest at Rock Farm, in Shepton. However, the conflict with the local sheep residing within the food forest meant that we needed to diversify, so we've left the food forest as a diverse orchard space, and decided to build a small market garden, farmed regeneratively by volunteers using no-till methods, to grow organic produce, free for the local food bank. It's our first season doing so this year, and we've already had a hugely positive response from people in the town. We hope to eventually expand these operations to grow produce for other food banks in Somerset!

Please visit our website for more information:

https://www.thefoodforestproject.org