Frome Town Council secured funding from Be The Earth foundation to commission a research project into Frome's local food system.

Produced by local food writer and researcher Hugh Thomas, the report highlights many of the businesses doing food differently in and around Frome, producing food in a way that is kinder to people and planet while keeping more money in the local economy.

The starting point of this report was not that Frome's food system needs to be "fixed", but that there is an opportunity to bring many individually strong elements together into a coordinated approach to futureproof access to local food in the face of climate change and economic

uncertainty That report has now been published and you can read all the details HERE: entitled Who Feeds Frome

As well as recommendations going forward the report profiles local Frome businesses including Penleigh Butchers, , Frome Field 2 Fork and Burrito Boi, set up by Dom Palmer as an affordable burrito delivery service out of his kitchen during lockdown.

As part of the project, Frome Town Council partnered with Edventure's Future Shed to host a workshop around local food. Over 40 people attended and went away with a list of actions and project ideas. This meeting has led to the formation of the Frome Food Network.

The author of the report Hugh told Nub News : "It's a starting point for grasping the challenges that lay between what we have and what we could have – a transformation of Frome's food system into a healthy, local, sustainable one that won't cost the earth.

"But in order for this to function to its fullest, local people have to know the pros and cons of what they're buying into. So this isn't the end of it. I want people to feel better informed, and be in a position where they can make better choices, about what they eat and drink, and where they can get it. That's why I started The Wallfish Journal – as a continuation of the issues the report begins to explore, and why people in Frome should care." You can subscribe to that HERE: fresh stories about food - and Frome - every Wednesday One of the ideas within the report, connecting people to local growing

spaces - as currently there is a five year wait for an allotment.