Potato Day & Seed Swap

Sowing the Seeds of Hope at this year’s Frome Potato Day and Seed Swap!

Sunday 15^th February 2026 @ The Cheese and Grain, 10am till 2pm, £3 donation (KIDS GO FREE

The promise of Spring, with a sweet breath of fresh air, is upon us.  Hope and renewal are visible and the excitement of the beginning of a new cycle of growth is felt amongst us all.  

Cherished by many, this annual event gathers gardening enthusiasts, community groups and enterprises, local producers and businesses to celebrate local food and horticulture together. Whether you’re a seasoned horticulturist or just beginning to explore gardening, Potato Day offers all the essentials to get your growing season underway including seed potatoes, bulbs, seeds, plants, fruit trees, and of course the community seed swap so bring your excess seeds in clearly marked paper envelopes, and plants, to swap for exciting new varieties!

The intention is to inspire and encourage people to nurture their own green spaces, and to share ways we can better take care of our environment as a community; sharing regenerative practices, creative explorations of our local food systems, deepening connections with herbal medicines, and delicious food demonstrations.

Organisers Frome Field 2 Fork CIC are a social enterprise dedicated to strengthening the local food network, educating people about agroecological growing methods, and improving our health and wellbeing through connection to each other and nature. With a small and inclusive community market garden within walking distance, where weekly nature based wellbeing sessions take place. 

As always Frome Field 2 Fork welcomes anyone who would like to help out on Potato day or who would like to come and visit the project. Please contact Caroline on 07857437608 if you would like to volunteer for this event, or join their wellbeing sessions. https://fromefield2fork.org/

Free Activities on the day

Kids activities and crafts all day including spring-time seed sowing with Frome Selwood Horticultural Society; the society has been active in Frome for more than fifty years and offers members and visitors the opportunity to meet new friends, share gardening experience (without having to be expert), coach trips to places of interest, plant sales, flower shows and social evenings.

10am – Herbalist Ben Still will host a Insight Herbalism Rose circle 

A sensory journey, inviting a deepening presence and relationship with the qualities of the Rose. This gentle, experiential workshop introduces insight herbalism through working with rose. Participants will explore tea tasting, and simple awareness practices to connect with rose as a living presence. No prior herbal experience needed. This circle is for all genders.

Ben Still is an insight herbalist, working with plants through direct experience, sensory awareness, and deep listening. This approach to plants focuses on relationship rather than prescription, inviting a more intimate way of meeting the living world.

11am – Alex at HotSteppa Sauce will share the ‘Principles of Hot Sauce Creation’ with a focus on seasonal ingredient sourcing to celebrate UK flavours. Expect live demonstration, product tasters and personal insights. 

Alex believes in symphonic recipes that tell a story – rooted in the land, the seasons and the wild spaces that inspire us. Their mission is simple: celebrate Gaia, support local ecosystems and ignite every meal with unparalleled flavour. Every sauce they craft begins in nature, focused on wild ingredients, seasonal produce and UK grown chillies that bring zest, resonance and fire to every drop.

12pm – Lizzie Haughton and Tom Wilford will facilitate  ‘A Vision for Frome’s Food Future’ 

A collaborative creative writing workshop. Lizzie says “Taking inspiration from Rob Hopkins and many other creative imaginationists, we’ll be exploring what a future food system in Frome looks, feels, sounds, smells and tastes like, by using the power of the pen to delve into our wildest imaginations. Join us for this short collective creative writing session, all welcome and encouraged.”

Lizzy is a grower, food activist, and chef-in-training, and has worked for many years trying to connect people to the food sovereignty movement through a shared love of growing, cooking, and eating food. Tom is a chef, a food activist, and a grower-in-training, and has a strong passion for cooking. Together they have spent many hours, notebooks, pens (and sometimes pints) in hands, plotting and dreaming of future food systems, and have felt the power of wild imaginations in bringing forth change.

1pm Networking and Knowledge Sharing with the 5th Gardeners Summit. 

The Gardeners’ Summit is a garden-minded group of professionals and enthusiasts. This network of more than 140 local gardeners provides opportunity and a platform for sharing knowledge, promoting and recommending businesses/organisations, finding/sharing/covering jobs, and recycling and selling surplus materials. Drop in to find out more, connect with other gardeners, find a professional, ask any garden-related questions and share some tasty bites.

Pre-Book free activities on FF2F’s ticket tailor page https://buytickets.at/fromefield2forkcic/2020754 (drop in’s also welcome) or call 07857437608 if you can’t book online.

Final Potato Day 2026 Poster (A4)