ENVIRONMENTAL group Transition Town Wellington are hosting a second summer picnic, this time at its forest garden site, Fox’s Field.

From 2pm until 6pm on Saturday, August 30, the Fox’s Field Summer Picnic will offer free food, music, workshops, a garden tour, and family friendly fun.

The event is specially tailored to families with teenage children, with street dancing and beatboxing workshops as well as cocktail making with fruit and foraged ingredients.

Special guests include Beth Allen the mixologist, Kit Sells the local DJ and street dance teacher, and R’Ocean the beatboxer, who will be teaching the basics of their crafts for free.

The event will also offer food tasting of the produce grown on site as well as a tour of the garden and its herbs, fruit and nut trees for some free foraging, and a talk on the site’s existence and purpose.

Visitors will have the chance to pick from a range of apple, pear, apricot, fig and cherry trees, among others, as well as enjoying the rosemary, lavender and sage planted in the garden’s ‘fedge’ or food hedge.

The environmental group, working in areas including wildlife, community gardening, climate change, waste reduction, renewable energy, and sustainability, host two annual summer picnics, one at their Longacre site in Rockwell Green, at the other at Fox’s Field, close to Tonedale Mill.

The Tonedale site was acquired by Somerset West and Taunton council with the intention of preserving it as amenity land for community use in 2019.

Fox’s Field is now tended to by Transition Town Wellington who began working to preserve the field as a biodiverse community space in 2021, when volunteers from around the Wellington area helped to plant the forest garden area with more than 330 trees and bushes.