*NEW* Grow More Food evening class at Urban Roots

Do you want to learn how to grow your own fruit and vegetables at home?

Whether you have a spare window ledge for a window box, or an allotment plot, this course will help you to get started growing your own food.  The course will cover the basics of seed sowing, planting, composting, and harvesting, and there will also be help to design your own vegetable plot.  We’ll also visit community gardens in the local area.

Course run every Thursday from 29th July - 16th September, Toryglen, Glasgow. Get in touch to find out more 0141 613 2763  places limited, booking essential.

Who We Are

Urban Roots is a community led organisation in Toryglen, Glasgow. We are committed to working with local people on projects that improve the environment, health and nutrition work and environmental arts.

Our volunteer teams take on lots of different projects such as transforming derelict or unused green spaces into thriving, blossoming community gardens where we grow herbs and vegetables, fruit and flowers. Not only does this make the area look more attractive, it also helps to create more used, social and safe places and community resources.

We also work closely with the schools to help them develop their eco-schools programmes and we run our own kids clubs such as after school or during the summer holidays. Children are also involved in the community gardens, helping to plant flowers and grow vegetables.

Our long term aims are to build a new community resource using sustainable eco-build methods and renewable technologies where people can share skills and knowledge and to use an educational resource. We have a long term vision of developing urban agriculture across Glasgow and local food growing based on permaculture methods, in partnership with other similar organisations.

Get Involved!

We welcome volunteers from all walks of life to get involved with Urban Roots. You could be a:

• Community Gardener
• ­Community Woodlander
• ­Youth and Children's Worker
• ­Committee Member
• ­Health and Nutrition Worker

What We Do

• A community gardening project, improving local spaces with herbs, flowers, fruit and vegetables.
• ­A market garden project, growing food to redistribute back into the community, helping to cut food miles.
• ­A conservation project, looking after an 8hectare site of woodland and marshland, improving the biodiversity and public access.
• ­Environmental education and food growing with the local schools.
• ­Kid's eco clubs and gardening clubs, looking at issues such as rubbish, food and transport.
• ­Climate change information workshops with local people and businesses, leading to action plans.

Staff Team

Abi Mordin - Project Coordinator

Danny Cavanagh - Project Officer

Roz Corbett - Project Officer
 
We have some 30 volunteers involved in the project in different ways, without whom Urban Roots would not be what it is. Special thanks go to our tireless Board Members:

History

Our Ethos

Urban Roots believes that our earth's climate and ecosystems are under strain from the impact of human activity. We believe that by working collectively we can find solutions for a sustainable future.