GYO Guidance, Happenings & Reflections
At Roots, we make growing your own food accessible to all through community allotments, hands-on guidance, and welcoming spaces for every experience level. Here we share practical growing tips, insights on soil health and sustainable farming, plus updates on new sites and community events. Let's dig in 👇🏼
Cultivate your gardening knowledge with expert guidance on sustainable, chemical-free growing methods.
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.
Roots Allotments sowing and growing session with year 5's at Croydon Primary School.
Gardening, growing and being in nature can do incredible things to your mind & body. Let’s get back in touch with nature and see both people & planet thrive!
.png)
Find out why 'No Dig' rules and is the future of growing your own!
Growing your own vegetables, fruits and flowers creates many physical, mental, social and environmental benefits.
.jpeg)
A Beginner's Guide to Allotment Gardening
Discover the heart and soul of our growing spaces through stories of connection that extend beyond garden boundaries into the wider world.
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.
This blog explores how food poverty impacts millions in the UK and highlights how Roots is helping to address it through community partnerships.
.jpg)
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.
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!
Roots Allotments sowing and growing session with year 5's at Croydon Primary School.
.png)
Roots partnered up with More Trees BANES and together they've created a tree nursery at the Bath site Tuckers Meadow
Explore the incredible biodiversity flourishing within and around our allotment spaces. Learn how to enhance wildlife habitats in your own growing area.
Roots partnered up with More Trees BANES and together they've created a tree nursery at the Bath site Tuckers Meadow
Roots Allotments have continued work to boost biodiversity at its new growing community in Leigh Woods, 1.5miles from Bristol, as preparations continue for its official opening in spring.
Growing your own vegetables, fruits and flowers creates many physical, mental, social and environmental benefits.
Experience the profound mental, physical, and emotional benefits that come from connecting with soil and growing your own food.
Gardening, growing and being in nature can do incredible things to your mind & body. Let’s get back in touch with nature and see both people & planet thrive!
Find out why we are using the revolutionary no-dig method
Follow our journey as we expand with new locations, document site transformations, and announce amazing projects.
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.
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.
An update on ecological surveys and how we will be moving forward with creating patches at Leigh Woods Meadows.
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.
-min.jpg)
Sugar Loaf Fields in Stoutbridge Opening Party with speakers from local community projects, a raffle and games for the kids!
Roots Allotments has now opened in Croydon and is also working with the Black Farmers Market CIC
Explore thoughtful perspectives on food systems, from questioning industrial agriculture to celebrating nutrient-rich local alternatives.
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.
Ed one of our founders reflects on the first year of growth at Roots Allotments
Big chemical pesticide producers are trying to monopolize nature in the UK with their GM crops. Here’s how to speak up and stop it!
Transform your homegrown harvest into delicious, nutritious meals with our garden-to-table recipes and cooking guides.
.png)