Four years ago when the two of us behind this project were still living in the south of Essex and operating as Alternative Estuary, we were often thinking about how working class communities can work for change at the grassroots.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
A lot of what this blog is about is how we can start to build a more equitable, just, sane and sustainable world in the shell of the dysfunctional and increasingly dystopian one we currently have to endure.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
This is really just a bit of a housekeeping announcement.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
We’ve published more posts than we care to remember about prefigurative action and the need to build parallel systems.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
There have been quite a few changes with our project recently as we adapt to an increasingly volatile social and political climate.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
One consistent strand in our activism has been to support, and where possible, take part in projects aimed at making we we live a better place.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
You don’t need us to tell you that things are getting tense across the country.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Yet again, we walked the walk with some practical community work on this project – Keynsham Community Veg Plot in the Park. This is the report I filed on how the work session went:| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Image: The Slow Burning Fuse| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Right, it’s time to get away from the tensions that are building up across the country to focus on what we really want to do.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
We do occasionally dig back into the Alternative Estuary archive to see if there’s anything worth re-posting here on At the Grassroots. The piece below concerns the peaceful appropriation of land for community use.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
As we’ve mentioned many times before, when it comes to practical work in our community, we do our best to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
The beauty of the Keynsham Community Veg Plot in the Park is it’s location in one of the busiest parts of the park, right next door to the cafe.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
It would appear that the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has given the green light for cash strapped councils to sell off allotment sites to raise badly needed funds: Rayner allows allotment sell-off for councils forced to dig deep – Tony Diver | The Sunday Telegraph (via pressreader) || atthegrassroots.substack.com
To create genuine social change, you have to build from the grassroots upwards.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
As we’ve mentioned in previous posts – Digging in at the plot 28.6.25 – when it comes to practical action in our community, we like to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
As we've written before, until we resolve the question of who owns the land, we'll never be able to properly fulfil our dreams and ideals.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
At the beginning of this month, I put up this post announcing a forthcoming event showing two films about farming and nature: One Last Farm, One Last Chance 7.7.25. These were the films that were shown: Save Our Wild Isles: Hungry For Change and: One Last Farm| AT THE GRASSROOTS
This was first published on the Facebook page of The Phantom Planter. We thought the piece below was such an inspiration, we just had to share it here on this blog:)| AT THE GRASSROOTS
The post below was originally published last autumn on the old, now binned, Wordpress version of this At the grassroots blog.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
The two photos are taken on the same street - the second ‘after’ photo was taken a little further back from the first photo.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
As we take this At the grassroots blog off in a new direction, one of the things we want to do more of is feature projects that set out to make a difference.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Image credit: Pollinator Pathways Project| atthegrassroots.substack.com
We believe that local, sustainable farming as part of a decentralised food production system, and the goal of nature conservation, are both compatible with each other if the will is there.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Wherever possible, we do our level best to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
A printable PDF of this directory can be downloaded from here.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
