Grassroots Rocks It!

The Grassroots Revival, a community activist/social change/sustainability gathering at Bountiful Cities’ Pearson Drive Community Garden in Montford, was an amazing collaboration of people and organizations in Asheville working to strengthen community and sustainability. Here’s just a partial list of the more than two dozen projects and organizations that were represented: Transition Asheville, Evolver Asheville, Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, Slow Food Asheville, FEAST (a project of Slow Food), Fresh Asheville, Dogwood Alliance, Firestorm Cafe, Spitfire Spoken Word Series, Asheville LETS (Local Exchange and Trade System), Grass to Greens (a project of Bountiful Cities), Asheville Grown Business Alliance, Asheville Black Cross, Mountain Area Information Network, My Brother’s Keeper, Organic Grower’s School, Asheville Green Opportunities, Asheville Green Drinks, Asheville Currency Project, the Latino Advocacy Coalition, and the True Nature Country Fair.