Rooted in Hull

04/04/2025

We don’t think it's too early to announce our 4th annual Rootstock Festival will take place on Saturday 21st June. Here’s a few shots from last year’s successful event for your viewing pleasure whilst we encourage you to add it to your diaries, although there is no way we will let you forget between now and then!

02/04/2025

Whilst locking the gates at the end of the day at Rooted last week we spotted a Red Kite hovering above, she seemed to be “casing the joint.” Perhaps she’s seen the night-time wildlife activity we get on site, although we’re not sure a Red Kite can manage a whole rabbit, reckon it’s in league with our resident fox! At Rooted in Hull, we’re coaxing nature back into the city!

28/03/2025

We have always strived to raise awareness surrounding mental health in our community. There is tons of stuff out there detailing how physical work can help both our physical and mental health. Martin took the Rooted ‘know-how’ to the Newland Avenue Mental Health Allotment (Hull) this week and helped them build some raised beds. The more we grow, the more we grow. It works for people and food!

26/03/2025

The Daffs are out, so it's definitely time to get some food in the soil. Wednesday is our open volunteering day when all are welcome to come and help us all grow together. There's always a hot meal as part of each session, this week the veggie soup travelled from Doncaster, and it contained the last few spuds from last year's harvest!

20/03/2025

We don’t wait for the good weather folk on tele to tell us when Mother Nature has begun to spread her magic, we just look into every nook and cranny of the space we have created down by the river. We often get soil delivered in these sacks; they had a bit of cleared garden waste in them, but these daffodils had different plans, proving that any space can be used to grow.

It won’t be long before everything on site is in full bloom and our work here will be rewarded again. Hope to see you down here, Wednesday is a good day to come and have a look around from 10 am, but as the weather turns nicer, if the gate is open, we’re open!

Come and find us on St Peter’s Street, Hull. We’re next to the Royal Mail parcel building!

19/03/2025

Good, home-cooked food is at the heart of all we do at Rooted. Last weekend almost all of our board of directors gathered for a meeting with Matt, who is helping us with our transition into becoming a registered charity, fingers crossed for this one. Neil’s soup went down very well, all served up from his mum’s stewpot, the red and white one in the background, which is almost 60 years old.

You will be the first to know if we are successful with our charity application, we’re doing all the right things, hopefully we don’t need luck, just the hard facts of what’s required to combat loneliness and social isolation whilst encouraging more awareness of sustainable food sources.

We grow people and food at Rooted in Hull.

13/03/2025

Join the Anlaby Road Assembly this weekend (Sunday 14th March).

We've been really impressed with our friends at Cooperation Hull's ideas and actions around food, community and creating positive change in our lovely city.
Wanna here more about it all? Get involved? Here's how:

"Have you heard about the Anlaby Road Assembly launching in March? It's a series of events in the Lonsdale Centre, deciding what we need, and rolling up our sleeves to get it done! The open day will have stalls, food and arts workshops, a chance to tour the historic Lonsdale Centre and have your say in how it could be changed and redecorated!

Then we're grabbing paint brushes and doing the job together.
Next, we'll be looking at the other things we want to change in our neighbourhoods. Wage slip always seems too far away? Let's talk about savings clubs - saving money together, without payday loans. Food bills driving you mad? Let's talk about food coops.

Energy prices making you miserable? Let's talk about community energy. It's all possible, if we work together. See you there! (A free lunch and stuff for the kids to do at every event). Search Cooperation Hull for more info."

12/03/2025

Preparations!

We’re not the only ones who have made it through the winter, relatively unscathed! This kale made it into nearly every soup we cooked last year and it's still going! We love to observe the growing process as it repeats its cycle each year.

Also, beekeeping news soon!

07/03/2025

Another great day of volunteering at Rooted in Hull. The sun shone and we had a few extra visitors down for a spot of lunch. Rooted favourite Will Hale even travelled up from London for another visit, you may remember he did a study using some of our volunteers last year, we blogged about him, check out the website to see more. We're pleased to have helped with his work, especially as he passed with distinction, although we expected nothing less!

06/03/2025

We've been really impressed with our friends at Cooperation Hull's ideas and actions around food, community and creating positive change in our lovely city.

Wanna here more about it all? Get involved? Here's how:

"Have you heard about the Anlaby Road Assembly launching in March? It's a series of events in the Lonsdale Centre, deciding what we need, and rolling up our sleeves to get it done! The open day will have stalls, food and arts workshops, a chance to tour the historic Lonsdale Centre and have your say in how it could be changed and redecorated!

Then we're grabbing paint brushes and doing the job together.

Next, we'll be looking at the other things we want to change in our neighbourhoods. Wage slip always seems too far away? Let's talk about savings clubs - saving money together, without payday loans. Food bills driving you mad? Let's talk about food coops. Energy prices making you miserable? Let's talk about community energy. It's all possible, if we work together. See you there! (A free lunch and stuff for the kids to do at every event). Search Cooperation Hull for more info."

28/02/2025

We would very much appreciate as many of our Rooted community to help us gather information about the role Rooted in Hull has in your life.

Thanks to everyone who has filled this in so far, we need as many as possible in the next 10 days. We would hope that you take a little time from your day to help us collect as much information as possible by March 10th

Thanks all in advance. Click the link to begin, it takes around 10 minutes

https://shorturl.at/hdwiN

28/02/2025

This week, the Rooted team all sat around a table whilst on a course in the city, then we went to the chippy for our lunch.

Our Daz had other ideas and only cost us a pot of Yorkshire caviar for his non-deep-fried version. Yum!

22/02/2025

Hull's annual seed swap, speaks for itself. Taking place now at Jubilee Central, Hull city centre. We brought some stuff to swap and we have taken some of what we need to get on with our growing for the coming season. It's time to start planning what you will grow too, what do you fancy eating from your own garden, it definitely tastes better we reckon

19/02/2025

We are currently applying to transfer Rooted in Hull into a registered charity. In order to facilitate this process, we would very much appreciate as many of our Rooted community to help us gather information about the role Rooted in Hull has in your life.

The more people that fill in the survey, the more accurate a picture we can present about the work we do. We would hope that you take a little time from your day to help us collect as much information as possible by March 10th

Thanks all in advance. Click the link to begin, it takes around 10 minutes

We want to hear what you think about Rooted in Hull. Your answers will help us to set our our plans for the future, supporting us with funding and future service delivery. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to fill in this survey.

13/02/2025

Adrian Fisher is the founder of Rooted in Hull. Recently retired from his role in charge of our urban farm space, he spent a good portion of his formative and adult years around the farming industry, which is where he gained the passion for producing high quality food, whilst being aware that not everybody has ready access to that quality. This is one of the reasons Adrian had the idea that Rooted could be a place in the city centre that, through physical demonstration of more sustainable food production practices, could raise awareness in our community about where our food comes from.
A life in farming has furnished Adrian with a wealth of experience and knowledge of those food production technologies, but this month we got him to plough a little deeper than the norm. The resulting harvest yielded a surprising story from his early childhood on the farm. Over to Adrian it is then…

The Story of the Milk Sq**rt Adrian Fisher is the founder of Rooted in Hull. Recently retired from his role in charge of our urban farm space, he spent a good portion of his formative and adult years around the farming industry, which is where he gained the passion for producing high quality food,

12/02/2025

It's only a few weeks until we will start to usher in the new spring season, and we are already starting to prepare our growing areas. Wednesdays are our general volunteering day, when everybody is welcome to come down and help us all to grow together. We meet at 10 am for a few hours and always sit down together for a hot meal and sometimes a quiz!

If you feel you can, have a look at our website, where we have just upgraded our donation button, converting it back into one that actually works! Any donations will go towards improving the quality of the services we provide onsite at Rooted and in the community, details of which can also be found on our website. https://rootedinhull.org.uk/

07/02/2025

On this day last year, we posted a photo of some snowdrops which went unusually viral. The photo was taken just outside Rooted in Hull, you will find us on St. Peter’s Street. We pay close attention to Mother Nature’s signaling. This means she’s almost ready to allow us to start growing people and food again, it's time for us to start planning what we would like to grow in 2025. Before we know it, we’ll be breaking ground (albeit in a raised bed!) Is this the year that one of you at home grows some of your own food for the very first time? Let us know, or come and see us, we have a few jobs to do, especially on Wednesdays from 10 am.

30/01/2025

Rooted provided the environment for Darren to go from He**in to Honey and become one of our beekeepers.

Here's his story

Rooted provided the environment for Darren to go from He**in to Honey and become one of our bee keepers When it comes to us keeping bees onsite, the benefits far outweigh the threat of being stung! At Rooted in Hull, one of our main objectives is to bring people in our community