Wellington's Big Green Week saw packed audiences turn out to hear talks on the town's community farm, regenerative agriculture and climate change.

The week began with Wellington's Film Festival's screening of Six Inches of Soil at Wellington Arts Centre, which followed the fortunes of three young British farmers standing up to industrial agriculture.

The film pointed to how a few big supermarkets controlled more than 90 per cent of food production in the UK, demanding higher yields for lower prices, which exhausted farmers and exhausted the soil.

Enter agroecology, which produces healthier food at source, where consumers get to know the people who produce our food with an approach that regenerates rather than depletes our soil.

Midweek saw one of the world's leading climate scientists discuss how rises in global sea levels caused by meting ice melt at the Poles could transform Somerset's geography.

Professor Richard Betts works for the Met Office in Exeter and received an MBE in 2019 for Services to the Understanding of Climate Change.

More than 80 people filled the United Reformed Church Hall to hear a message on climate change that was stark and hopeful in equal measure.

He told the packed audience that the last time the earth's atmosphere contained this much carbondioxide was three million years ago. But then he added we already had the technology to reduce our emissions by half.

Mr Betts said: "It comes down to personal choices and political will. If we carry on regardless, our weather will become more disruptive, it's unavoidable.

"On the other hand, if we take stock and put in place sensible policies that wean us off fossil fuels and mass consumption, then we could manage the planet for generations to come.”

The week ended with inspiring presentations about the Green Corridor, a 64-acre site between the town centre and Rockwell Green, which is owned by Somerset Council and leased to Wellington Town Council.

Transition Town Wellington and Wellington Community Farm showed how volunteers had transformed the area into a green asset capable of producing healthy fruit and vegetables at the heart of the community for years to come.