FOOD SECURITY
Understanding food freedom and the role gardens play in building resilience.
Food security is not just about having enough to eat today. It is about building the knowledge, the skills and the systems that ensure communities can feed themselves — through every season and every challenge. These articles explore the deeper context behind why gardens matter.
ARTICLES & PERSPECTIVES
Why Growing Your Own Food Is a Food Security Act Every home garden is a small but meaningful step towards food independence. This article explores the connection between growing food and building personal and community resilience.
Tag: Community Gardens
Food Deserts: What They Are and What Gardens Can Do Understanding food deserts — the communities they affect, how they form, and the role that community and home gardens can play in addressing food access gaps.
Tag: Community Gardens
The True Cost of Food: What the Price Tag Doesn't Show The supermarket price of food hides enormous environmental, social and human costs. An honest look at what we are really paying — and what growing your own changes.
Tag: Community Gardens
Food Sovereignty and the Right to Grow Food sovereignty is the right of people to define their own food systems. What it means, why it matters, and how community gardens are a quiet act of reclaiming that right.
Tag: Community Gardens
How Community Gardens Reduce Food Insecurity The evidence behind community gardens as tools for food access — what research shows, what communities have experienced, and what makes a garden genuinely impactful.
Tag: Community Gardens
Preserving the Harvest: Canning, Drying and Fermenting A practical introduction to preserving your garden's abundance — three core methods that extend the harvest well beyond the growing season.
Tag: New Home Gardens
Urban Agriculture and Its Role in City Food Systems How urban agriculture — from rooftop gardens to community plots — is reshaping the way cities think about food production and food access.
Tag: Community Gardens
Growing Calorie-Dense Crops for Food Resilience Not all crops are equal when it comes to food security. A guide to calorie-dense vegetables and grains that give the most nutritional return per square foot.
Tag: New Home Gardens
How to Build a Household Food Reserve from Your Garden Simple strategies for building a meaningful food reserve at home — what to grow, how to store it, and how to think about your garden as a long-term food supply.
Tag: New Home Gardens
FOOD FREEDOM BEGINS AT HOME
From The Roots supports families and communities building food resilience — one garden, one seed, one season at a time.