We need your help!

We want to be able to turn to you, the {roots} community, for ideas and inspiration on what you think we can do to get people out of their homes and spending time together? What are the needs of our communities? What do you see that needs to be done, not just to make our surroundings more beautif [...]

Save The Date!

Saturday, October 9 in the Miller-Orchard Neighborhood, we'll be a part of some more community building. We're really excited for this event, so stay tuned for details ... we'll have them soon. (don't worry, the Hawks have a bye that week.) [...]

Miller-Orchard Community Garden Follow-Up

Thank you so much to all of the volunteers that came out to help the Miller-Orchard Community get land ready for a garden! We had around 30 volunteers show up that took roughly a ton of trash and three large loads and two small loads of branches and brush out to make room for the garden. We were [...]

Sen. Grassley Talks at UI

Iowa Senator Charles Grassley was in Iowa City to talk health care.

“Everyone agrees something has to be done,” Grassley said in a lecture hall at UI’s Medical Education Research Facility. “However, Congress has spent a year writing bills that would make a bad situation worse.[...]

Edible Magazine Honors Three Local Heroes

A couple of years ago {reclaiming roots} was recognized as a local hero. This year, these three have been named. Congratulations to them! (more...) [...]