Grassroots Garden CIC started a few years ago, in response to rising food insecurity and an increasingly disconnected industrial food system. Since then, food insecurity has increased: farmers around the world have been protesting at being squeezed so hard by supermarkets and governments, corporate control of our food system has multiplied, and we’ve experienced increasing levels of extreme weather at home and from where we import half our food.

We want to be part of the solution in our little corner of the world, and you can join us in this mission!

We aim to create a food system that can stand up to challenges like Brexit, Covid, climate change and whatever else is around the corner and this is what Grassroots Garden CIC is all about.

Our seed sovereignty projects with the Gaia Foundation, has us involved in crowd-breeding diverse plant varieties that are grown using Adaptive Agriculture as a method of locally adapting seeds to our conditions, and we are heavily involved in producing open-pollinated seeds that we aim to distribute far and wide. Get in touch if you would like to know more!

We share the growing space every Thursday , 10-4 so that we can support our community to learn about and participate in growing in a regenerative way.

Who is helping us?

Our wonderful volunteers, amazing members, and awesome grant funders are all a huge part of this project.

The National Lottery Community Fund have recently awarded us a grant to run the “Grow Together” project, which has paid for another polytunnel to give us loads of undercover space to work in, to eat, and to run workshops, and to grow lots more food! They have also funded part time grower/volunteer coordinator roles! This is an absolute game changer, for which we are so incredibly grateful.

Locally, Cornwall Neighbourhoods For Change (CN4C) have helped us in many ways, by lending us their kitchen to run a “Chutney Club” day, and by guiding us through our first grant application – which we won! Thank you for all the wonderful work you do.