There are a lot of distractions and psyops at the moment aren’t there?| AT THE GRASSROOTS
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
These papers are about inspiring people to start taking action at the grassroots, in the neighbourhoods where they live.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
As we’ve mentioned more than a few times before, our work at the community fruit and vegetable plot in our local park is us putting our money where our mouths are when it comes to practical action that makes a difference.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
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
Below is a quote we featured in our previous post.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Direct action involves taking action for ourselves, tackling a problem directly without appealing to any authority to act on our behalf.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
This may be stating the bleeding obvious but, projects and campaigns based in and focused on their locales are undertaken by people living there.| AT THE GRASSROOTS
Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that decentralising and localising our food production and supply systems is something we're very passionate about.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
This post was published a short while ago on our sister blog – Stirrings from below. As it concerns our approach to community action in the past, we thought it was worth re-posting it here on At the grassroots.| At the grassroots
A printable PDF of this directory can be downloaded from here.| atthegrassroots.substack.com
