from the ground up

Like the men on the line, I pulled on white cotton gloves and, as the machine inched forward, began lifting watermelons from the ground, up onto the table above me where the packers waited.

In five years, when the mortgage comes to term, he intends to sell the two-bedroom house which he and his wife built from the ground up.

In such cases reform may mean rebuilding from the ground up.

“This is how we build the AI ecosystem for the future, from the ground up,” Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski said.

Barth, a freelance journalist, spent time in three different Bay Area encampments of unhoused people, including Oakland’s Wood Street Commons, and, as Gov. Gavin Newsom moves forward on a new task force targeting these areas for removal, he argues that solutions to homelessness should come from the ground up, with the involvement of those most affected.