Pumpkin Day and Harvest Festival

Celebrating local food together and ‘Exploring Frome’s Food Future: Seeds, Squash, Stories & Strategies’. Pumpkin Day and Harvest Festival combines seasonal celebration with community-led exploration of Frome’s food future.

Pumpkin Day and Harvest Festival: 12pm – 4pm

• Free (donations welcome towards Frome Field 2 Fork’s wellbeing programme).
• Bring your family and friends, along with fruits, vegetables, seeds, flowers, nuts, and preserves to share and swap at the Community Harvest Swap.
• Check out the local food, drinks and gardening stalls along with community groups and fun seasonal crafts.
• This year you will also have the opportunity to take part in a series of hands-on, interactive activities designed to explore our past, present, and future food systems. Share your food memories, help highlight local strengths and opportunities, imagine future diets, record your stories, and guide priorities for land use in and around Frome.

NEW Pumpkin Eve: 5:30pm – 10pm

• £10 – £15 (profits will be used for Frome Field 2 Fork’s wellbeing programme).
• A panel discussion with local food and climate experts on creating a “food belt” or adaptation ‘doughnut’ for Frome, making sure that everyone has access to good, healthy food while staying within the limits of the environment.
• A delightful seasonal feast (v/gf) prepared by local chef Jo Harrington
• Live music with local band The Electric Kool Aid Collective and DJ (tbc)
• Drinks from a bar available all evening
• Raffle for a free Green Gathering 2026 ticket

Pumpkin Day 2025 is more than a harvest celebration — it’s an opportunity for the community to share knowledge, tell stories, and contribute ideas that will help shape Frome’s resilient, regenerative food future and have a boogie!