Our Roots
'The revolution will not be televised'
The changes have to come from the ground up, not top down. The entire system from education, agriculture, medicine, energy, and sustainable housing has to change. At crops not shops we feel that it starts with the people on the ground, hands in the earth,
sowing seeds of great change that start the real revolution.
2020, COVID HITS, people get worried, all shops shelves are cleared and emptied with the panic, people fighting over toilet rolls, schools shut down, hospitals overrun, public services come to a halt, people trapped in their own homes, scared, vulnerable, alone.
Recognizing the fragility of these systems in place and how much we rely on them brought a clear guided vision to one of the founders, Chay Godfree that we must come together in communities, to grow our own foods, learn renewable energy systems, home educate our own children and just create a better more robust natural system that promotes life and the natural restoration of our eco systems and remove the “ego systems” to help human beings remember love again.
BUT WHERE DO WE START?
We start at the roots with the Earth. The project started out in Southend on Sea, Essex by building a raised bed in someone's garden and planting some crops, with the vision of doing this in every garden in the country and getting the gardens to share the produce between each other, it was phenomenal, in the height of the pandemic and the movement was starting to take shape.
Two gardens a day, people coming from all over to volunteer and help out. Forty gardens in four months, everyone sharing, forming relationships and growing together. We started getting so much traction that we needed a space to work from, so with the help of the locals, we found a massive greenhouse to mobilize ourselves from. It was so amazing to see so many people wanting this change and coming together.
We had by this time a big team, didn't really know how to manage it but had full faith in the love it and carried on. We started transforming neglected public green spaces, allotments, and then onto bigger plots of land owned privately, owned by farmers that saw the vision of holistic approaches to growing food, education etc.
We had an amazing time during the pandemic despite the push back, we rebelled and took things into own hands.
2022. The movement is strong, more and more land owners contacted us, wanting to use their land for community building and land diversification. So, in May 2022 we partnered up with a land owner in the heart centre of the earth Glastonbury, on 22 acres of land to co create what we are now calling, the community shared farming model of land use and diversification.
The land is our mother hub and training ground for how we do this: “living in community thing” properly, in right relation to each other and the earth, restoring nature to its former wonder, family units at the centre, food grown with regenerative practices a nd shared out with those in need. We have had so much success with this mission that we now know it's a massive solution to the world's issues.
