Interconnected, healthy, and whole communities empower young people.
Each year trees, shrubs, and flowers begin their dormancy in the fall. This allows a period of time to harvest them from the ground, creating a bare root. The bare root can survive through its dormancy to be replanted in the spring. This method allows us to grow plants in groves and then unroot and replant in parks and neighborhoods with the best prepared fertile soil.
Similarly, each year four million young folks turn 18 and are arbitrarily considered adults. Many of them have strong support systems and will remain planted and continue to grow, and many of them will be uprooted without setting the conditions for their replanting in the springtime. Bare Roots Collective seeks to hold these roots lightly and create the conditions for them to be replanted.