Roots Allotments

🌱Grow your own
🍅 Nutritious Fruit & Veg
🌏 Be kinder to the planet
🤑 Save on your food shop
👇 Secure your allotment

[Adam Dandy @AdamDandy]

Down @RootsAllotments in Sealand, Nr. Chester! WOW!!! What an AMAZING new growing community this place is going to be!! CH1 6BS. 90 people signed up on the first day!! They are releasing more plots on Sunday at 6pm I think. @ShitChester @chestertweetsuk @DeesideDotCom

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@seanjcameronuk @ClaireNewk @drrozhall @NorthSomersetC @GreenJennyJones @DeborahMeaden @Ben_garrod @Catherinewith11 @bristolgreen @katy_noakes @ClimateRadio @TheBristolCable @youngclimatewrs @ChrisGPackham Sadly! We miss you sean

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@axepreneur @AlphaMediaa Would love to chat - how can we contact you

[Global Generation @global_gen]

A beautiful event hosting the launch of @jrf_uk Seeds of Hope campaign. The panel hosted by Tayshan, featured Kalpana, Jade, Maymana, Jamie & Fran talking about the importance of communities imagining & making better futures 🌷

@nowadaysonearth
@RootsAllotments
@grow2knowcic

[CreArt Collective CIC @CReARTCIC]

Today is a big day for our community. We have established a partnership with Roots Allotment for the provision of surplus food for migrant women in our community. Starting in July, we will have fresh and organic food available in the centre from roots allotment in addition to what we grew ourselves in our allotment. Exchanged for free performance from our Heritage Group🙂

We are so grateful for this support. This initiative is going to change many lives.

This is not a quick fix or a form of assistentialism. Most women in our community come from an asylum background and are waiting for their status to start working and living a normal life. Sometimes the wait can be as long as three years. During this time, families are living in hotels and experiencing extreme food poverty.

Having a space where they can
have a balanced, nutritional meal at least twice a week, a space in nature to connect to nature in addition to receiving mental health support and help with integrating into the community, will prevent their mental and physical health from declining during this waiting period.

This partnership is more than just supporting people with nutrition; we are supporting a future generation to thrive.
Thank you @RootsAllotments for the support. We so much appreciate what you’re doing for communities in Uk.

[E-ACT Venturers' Academy @VenturersAc]

Our out door area is wonderful and the children so happy and overwhelmed by the kindness of All Roots  - Good Vibes Project! Some of the statements have been, 'Wow, it is good to know people care about us.' ' I am speechless, I love this.' @RootsAllotments @VenturersAc

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@wafu23RN @DeborahMeaden Regenerate the soil, feed the people with fresh organic veg. Grow your own food locally 🌱

[Tabatha @Tabatha71407919]

Thank you @RootsAllotments for allowing me the opportunity to teach my daughter how to grow food and to give her the best start in life xx

[CropDrop @CropDropBanes]

Just collected a donation of sweet baby carrots, early parsnips and a couple of celeriac from the @RootsAllotments donation cupboard. 🥬 🥕

This is the latest collection CropDrop have ever had from an allotment, overtaking the previous late donation champions at Combe Down! 🙌

[CropDrop @CropDropBanes]

Amazing donations from @RootsAllotments Tuckers Meadow heading to @MercyInActionUK today. There are chilis, beetroot, courgettes, marvellous marrows, beans, squash and cucumbers galore!

[CropDrop @CropDropBanes]

CropDrop are delighted to share that we are supporting the @RootsAllotments community abundant produce.

On 10/7 Fiona from @MercyinActionUK collected the first donation for their amazing Action Pantry in Twerton.

One of the delighted customers said "the garlic was really nice".

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@DeborahMeaden This just isn’t true at all. The field that we are looking at has just been drilled with wheat.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@EquicultureJane @Ducklady27 @DeborahMeaden This is not the case at all, we will use arable land to create a growing space that is good for people and the planet and enables 100s of new people to learn to grow.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@westrowhendo @Paul1968T @RobM37099974 @DeborahMeaden @nationaltrust Apologies. Our information came from Defra which said the SSSI is Avon Gorge, not Leigh Woods.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@Paul1968T @RobM37099974 @DeborahMeaden Leigh Woods is not an SSSI. It’s a nature reserve. The closest SSSI to our site is actually Ashton Court Golf Course funnily enough.

Here’s how allotments compare to Nature Reserves (NR) for pollinators. A study across 4 cities by Bristol Uni.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@brisadamsq @DeborahMeaden The compost has been removed from site.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@Clairerising @DeborahMeaden Our patches include, seeds, tools, plug plants, online courses, talks and workshops. Comparing like for like prices isn't the reality of what we are offering. There are 25% discounts for those on income support, service personel and blue light workers.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@Clairerising @DeborahMeaden Would you have blocked the farmer from ploughing the field to do their job, to make money?

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@Clairerising @DeborahMeaden Allotments do not require planning permission when set up on agricultural land because horticulture is a practise within agriculture. This land is classified as modified grassland that has been used for grazing cattle and in previous years ploughed to grow crops.

[Roots Allotments @RootsAllotments]

@DeborahMeaden @chrisG987 There is even plastics in expensive bagged compost, and even rotted cow manure. We got the 1st load removed from site due to the amount of plastic in it and have found a new supplier who can screen to a much smaller size.