Garden Planning for Beginners: Grow With Confidence
Learn how to plan your garden, maximize space, and grow with confidence in this beginner-friendly guide. Includes tips on crop rotation, space management, and more.
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How Community Gardening Transforms Well-Being & Builds Connections
Explore the mental and physical benefits of community gardening, including its positive impact on well-being and the joy of building connections through growing food.
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Warm Up From The Inside Out: Raheel Mirza’s Aromatic Butternut Squash Karahi
As the evenings turn crisp, there’s nothing like a hearty, aromatic curry to bring warmth to your home. Enter the Butternut Squash Karahi, a vibrant, spice-filled dish crafted by MasterChef star Raheel Mirza. Known for his passion for making home cooking accessible to all, Raheel combines authentic Pakistani flavours with simple steps in this comforting recipe. Whether you’re a seasoned cook or a kitchen newbie, this dish is perfect for cosy nights. Try it with roti or rice, and don’t forget to share your creation with us on Instagram @rootsallotments!
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From Neolithic Fields to Wartime Campaigns: A Brief History of Growing Our Own Food
Discover the history of allotments and how growing your own food is key to building resilience against modern food system challenges, with Roots making it accessible for all through affordable plots, education, and community support.
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Roots Allotments & Generation Soil Launch Bristol Market Garden for Local Food Security
Roots Allotments partners with Generation Soil to launch a market garden in Bristol, addressing food insecurity, improving food supply chains, and providing fresh, chemical-free produce to local communities.
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Surplus Produce Partnerships Announced To Help Fuel Food Initiatives to People with Food Insecurity
This blog explores how food poverty impacts millions in the UK and highlights how Roots is helping to address it through community partnerships.
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Planting Seeds of Change: Land Donation and Fundraising Success for Black Farmers Market at our Meadows Hill, Croydon Opening Party
Roots Allotments celebrated the opening of their Meadow Hill site in Croydon by partnering with the Black Farmers Market to donate land and raise over £400, fostering community, diversity, and sustainability in local food production.
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Roots help Venturers Academy in Hartcliffe turn their growing area around
We spent a day as a team with the Venturers Academy teachers and students on making their growing space a beautiful place to relax, learn and of course grow their own!
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Bristol Leigh Woods - Our Site Moving Forwards
An update on ecological surveys and how we will be moving forward with creating patches at Leigh Woods Meadows.
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Bristol Leigh Woods Update: Compost, Skylarks, Planning, The Future of Growing!
Following the confirmed legal use of the land for allotments by North Somerset council on Nov 2023 Roots have been slowly but surely preparing the site for this years growing season after an extremely wet Winter and start to Spring.With many members from Bristol and the surrounding area being super excited for a patch and to get access to a space to grow their own and be part of a like minded community.This morning they brought in the first loads of compost that will be used to create no dig beds that will provide its members with a good growing medium for the season ahead.
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