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frome nature lab

Cultivating Community is excited to be starting a new partnership with LOOP Composting and Edventure Frome to create Frome Nature Lab, a practical demonstration site for climate-adaptive growing and composting.

 

We will run volunteer days, workshops, grow wildlife-friendly and drought-resilient plants, trial aquaponics and water capture systems and produce peat-free compost from local food waste.

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Cultivating Community having developed and ran a community plant nursery for six years at the Walled Garden in Mells has developed expertise in wildlife-friendly propagation, community growing and inclusive volunteering. Edventure has over a decade of experience activating community-led climate projects, including its Youth Climate Group, Future Shed and multiple nature-based initiatives. LOOP Composting brings specialist knowledge in community-scale food-waste composting and low-carbon waste reduction. All three organisations have strong local networks and a proven ability to co-design projects with residents. This partnership ensures high-quality horticultural expertise, hands-on climate skills, and deep community engagement—making us well placed to deliver a practical, impactful climate-adaptive growing hub for Frome.

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​If you have any in-kind donations or if we align with your environmental corporate social responsibility values and you would like to support our work please contact Sam to chat further.

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Become a volunteer:  Regular volunteer sessions will start in March 2026. There will be a range of jobs both light gardening and heavy clearing. We also do community days when we tackle a big area to clear or do a large plant out. 

We have been hosting a number of corporate volunteer away day: Its the perfect way to get away from your desks and get your hands dirty.  For us having a team on the site really helps us make a lot of progress towards making the site safe and accessible. We can even do you a BBQ. If you would like us to organise a bespoke away day for you please do get in touch.

Make Cultivating Community your community organisation of the year: Our fundraising goals for 2025 are high as we get the site established. We need £50k. 

  • £6k excavating/leveling and clearing the site

  • £4k installing a water standpipe 

  • £10k for disabled accessible composting toilet

  • £5k for a  shelter

  • £5k disabled accessible raised beds

  • £20k for staff costs for the first year covering site management, volunteer coordinator and income generation

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Sweetpea Galaxy Mix
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Squash Blue Kari
Tomato Zebra
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The gorgeous images on our packages and website are painted by a talented Canadian artist, Justina Smith who visited us as an artist in residence a few years ago. We love that we can continue to work with Justina

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