A ‘SOCIAL Saturday’ is being held on… Saturday (May 23), to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of Exmoor market garden Good Vibe Veg.

The event is part of Nature Friendly Farming Week with people invited to go along and feel part of the team by volunteering.

People are being asked to help make wood chip paths, weed vegetable beds, and make a new salad bed on the field at Horner Farm, near Porlock.

In return, they will receive a soup lunch, teas, coffees, and a ‘general good feeling’.

A Good Vibe Veg spokesperson said: “People of all ages are invited, we only ask that children are supervised.

“If people would like to join us please could they get in touch via [email protected].”

Good Vibe Veg was started in 2021 by Leighanne Beart and Adam Reed, who set out on a mission to ‘create an inspiring environment where we would grow an abundance of local, healthy, seasonal food in a nature-friendly way, while offering social, learning, and well-being opportunities for and with the community’.

The couple both grew up loving the outdoors and being out in nature and had backgrounds in nature conservation and education, although they did not have any formal horticulture qualifications or real commercial growing experience

Their market garden now features 44 growing beds, plus fruit trees and bushes, a large shed for packing and storage, three polytunnels, a composting toilet, new hedgerows, rainwater harvesting, compost bins, and a bug hotel built by local children.

It feeds about 30 to 40 households weekly with healthy local food throughout the year through its ‘veg share memberships’, and others through seasonal markets and wholesale sales in Toucan Wholefoods Shop and Cafe, in Minehead.

Good Vibe Veg now also has a new website thanks to the time and effort put in by local marketing expert Bill Hodgson.