Transition Town Wellington has gone from strength to strength over its 16 year history. This small town on the border of Somerset and Devon has seen its green spaces turn into herb beds, forest gardens, wildflower meadows and orchards thanks to the group’s enthusiastic community gardening and wildlife team. Its flagship project, a food forest on an 8.5 acre site next to the town’s iconic, 200-year-old textile mill at Tonedale has catalysed the local council to create a 65-acre Green Corridor around the town, to protect and enhance biodiveristy, local food production, sport and accessible outdoor activities. The history of the town’s people is interwoven with the history of the mill, its waterways and its surroundings – a story which, with the Oral History Project, we are excited to chart in this age of change.
