Good Vibe Veg CIC

The company has continued providing and improving the community market garden and Community Supported Agriculture scheme. This has included increasing the growing space, planting pear trees and more hedges, installing an access track and some drainage, and building a compost toilet. It has grown an abundance of nutritious produce and has continued selling this to local people (members) as weekly veg shares (approx. 35 boxes per week through the whole year, now in a range of sizes). It has also participated in a monthly produce market, making our fresh vegetables available to a wider community, and offered wholesale produce to a local healthfood shop and cafe. The local community has benefitted by receiving quality, naturally-grown local food delivered to collection points in their town or village, but also through popular, weekly volunteering days at the field. We have a core group of around 8-14 regular volunteers, but around 30 different people have been involved over the year. Volunteer days offered participants the opportunity to exercise, connect with nature, socialise, share ideas and learn about sustainable, low-carbon food growing, and to take produce home with them. Some volunteers are now helping on harvest days too. Good Vibe Veg has continued its strong relationship with St Dubricius School in Porlock, and now benefits local children through its offering of regular education visits. These sessions enable practical, out-of-classroom learning about growing food using ecologically- friendly methods, to ages 3 to 9yrs. The children love getting stuck into a wide range of tasks including seed sowing, mulching, composting, planting and harvesting on their own growing patch. We have also hosted two enrichment days with Minehead Middle School (Yrs 5-8). Good Vibe Veg has also hosted successful community events such as a Garden Feast, Open Days (with Horner Farm) at the farm markets, and an onion and garlic plaiting evening, and group visits. It has also donated surplus produce to the West Somerset Food Cupboard (food bank) on many occasions, and encourages our members to allow us to donate their veg shares on weeks when they are away.