Roger Deakin and the Common Ground Movement

Common Ground was set up a small charity which Roger invented with two other brilliant environmentalists. It championed everyday nature, hedgerows, orchards, grass verges and the stuff all around us at a time when environmentalism was purely about science defining rare species. What's key to that is his understanding of what the word common means. He lived on Melis Common, which is one of the largest still extant commons in England - full of diversity. But he was also aware of what this old commons philosophy was before enclosure,. Before barbed wire in the fences excluded the English from their countryside.