Wells Food Network is a partnership of organisations and people who are passionate about celebrating healthy, sustainable, affordable food for all. Our vision is for a vibrant food culture in Wells and its surrounding towns, villages and countryside that is:
​
  • good for people
  • good for communities
  • good for the planet

Join us in making Wells and the area an example of excellence in healthy, sustainable, delicious local food! 

News and events

This year's Taste the Landscape is launched at the Royal Bath & West Show

Eat:Festivals held a launch celebration for this year's Taste the Landscape food trail at the Royal Bath & West Show on May 30. The event was sponsored by Old Mill, West Country-based financial advisors and accountants. 

Launching Taste the Landscape as an eat:Festival West Country Food Adventure, in front of a packed tent that included some of the participants, Sarah Milner Simonds said the aim was to explore some of the excellent food and drink that the area could offer while meeting the producers, having fun – and, above all, enjoying an adventure.

Taste the Landscape will run from Saturday 13 to Sunday 29 July.

Award-winning eat:Festivals to deliver year two of Taste the Landscape 

 Following the success of last year's Somerset Food Trail, Taste the Landscape, we have commissioned the award-winning eat:Festivals to organise the second year of Taste the Landscape.  This year's event will be held from Saturday 13 to Sunday 29 July.

Bev and Sarah of eat:Festivals have built an enviable reputation for their festivals, which showcase the best of Somerset food and drink in town centres across the county. They've won multiple awards and are currently finalists for Local Food Champion, a new category sponsored by Yeo Valley, in the Western Daily Press Food & Farming Awards.

Visit www.eatfestivals.org for more information or to register an interest in becoming a participant, or www.somersetfoodtrail.uk for details on Taste the Landscape.

Taste the Landscape, Somerset's first food trail, is a roaring success 

"We just wanted to say a huge thank you for a fabulous day. It was great to see your smallholding and the workshop was excellent." 
– Linda and Lou, on Dragon Willow Farm's sausage making workshop
We are delighted by the success of our first ever Somerset Food Trail, Taste the Landscape, which finished on Sunday July 29, 2018.  Feedback shows that the Food Trail, has been a great success with both visitors and the participating venues.

Taste the Landscape was organised by Wells Food Network and other organisations behind  Taste the Landscape, including Reimagining The Levels, Somerset Community Food, Somerset Local Food Direct, Green Wedmore, and Sustainable Wells.

The aim was to celebrate the best of locally produced, delicious and sustainable food, and to promote Somerset food and farming. Modelled on arts trails such as Somerset Art Works, the food trail saw farmers and food producers, as well as pubs and restaurants, opening their doors to the public at set times over the 10 day period. Participating venues ranged from goat farms to cheese makers and from vegetable growers to smokeries.

This first food trail focused mainly on Mendip and surrounding areas, from Wells, Wookey and Wedmore to Shepton Mallet, Bruton and the Brue Valley. Participants were mostly small-scale farmers or producers. More details at: www.somersetfoodtrail.uk.

£400,000 to promote local food growing

The National Lottery is investing £400,000 in a project to increase the number of local  food growing initiatives across the UK. It has just awarded a grant to Incredible Edible to transform disused urban spaces into gardens where people can work together to grow fresh, healthy food.

Quarter of honey contaminated with pesticides

A quarter of British honey is contaminated with bee-harming pesticides, according to new research. Astonishing as this sounds, this is less than previous studies have shown but it reveals that the partial ban on neonicotinoids is not working, say activists. 

Diet can reverse type 2 diabetes 

A radical low-calorie diet can reverse type 2 diabetes, even six years into the disease, a new study by Newcastle and Glasgow Universities has found.  Nine out of 10 people in the trial who lost 15kg (two-and-a-half stone) or more put their type 2 diabetes into remission.

Sustainable Food Cities on YouTube!

Wells Food Network is a member of the Sustainable Food Cities network, which now has its very own YouTube channel. The aim is to showcase the people and projects across the UK that are exploring practical ways of using food to change the places where we live for the better.  Click on the image above to check out this video on the SFC YouTube Channel which explains what this movement is all about.

Sustainable Food Cities

Wells Food Network was established  to promote locally sourced, healthy, sustainable and affordable food for everyone in Wells and its surrounding towns, villages and countryside. Our founding partners are Sustainable Wells and Wells Food Festival.

Why were we founded?

Food and farming have always been an important part of the life of Wells and its surrounding towns and countryside. Yet today farmers face unprecedented challenges, our environment is under enormous pressure and many people cannot afford the good food they need.

Sustainable Food Cities

Wells has been accepted as a member of the Sustainable Food Cities network. This is a fantastic achievement for Wells Food Network. The fast-growing SFC network is group  of cities and regions across the UK working to transform their food and farming culture. 

Our mission

To celebrate the joy of good food and to champion sustainable,
affordable, locally grown food as an integral part of a heathy diet,
community wellbeing and environmental conservation.  
Picture credit, clockwise from top:  Wells Farmers' Market, by Susie Weldon; Wells Cathedral, by Susie Weldon; Apples by Steve Bridger; Salad by Susy Morris