Bentley, a former coal-mining town just north of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, is among the 10% most impoverished areas of the UK. Life expectancy is a full decade less than the national average. Food poverty is a major issue, leading to high rates of nutrition-related illnesses such as childhood obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. An anarchist-led community market garden project called Bentley Urban Farm (BUF) was created eight years ago to address food poverty and food deserts in Doncaster. The project teaches people how to grow their own food and offers a veg box scheme. The mission of BUF is to protect people from poverty through education, direct action, and mutual aid. The project operates on land owned by the council. Neoliberalism has created political vacuums in economically marginalized communities, leaving them hungry for alternative politics. The far right has taken advantage of this vacuum, but anarchists aim to counter baseless propaganda with real illustrations of societal change. A Commune in the North (ACitN) is building upon BUF's work to create an egalitarian, anti-capitalist, anti-oppressive eco-commune for up to 200 people. The goal is to build autonomous, ecologically sensitive systems with shorter supply chains to meet essential needs like food, energy, shelter, and care. These systems will act as a bridge between the commune, the wider community, and the outside world, creating a solidarity economy and demonstrating that capitalism and the state are not necessary for survival or thriving. Anarchists believe that liberty and social equality are intimately related, and that individual freedom is possible through the building of solidarity economies, mutual aid networks, and autonomous zones. The article encourages readers to get involved with ACitN and start building alternatives to capitalism in the cracks of the system. [f255daf8]