GoodRoots began many years ago by exploring a simple question: How can we help families build stronger relationships with each other and with the natural world? With time, that question grew.
Over the years, I became increasingly interested in plants - not just as things we grow in the garden, but as beings that people have known, used, valued, named, cultivated, and lived alongside for thousands of years.
That curiosity led me toward gardening, ethnobotany, land stewardship, traditional plant knowledge, and the history of our relationship with the living world.
Today, GoodRoots is evolving from a family education program into something broader: a learning project rooted in a piece of land in Northern Minnesota. It is a place to grow and share knowledge, build community, and develop relationships with the land. We’re experimenting, learning, growing, and figuring it out as we go. Ultimately, we’re interested in what happens when we slow down enough to know the places we live.
KNOW
Learn the plants.
Understand the land.
Recover knowledge.
Ask questions.
CONNECT
Spend time outside.
Grow something.
Notice what lives here.
Build relationships with plants, place, and people.
CARE
Grow thoughtfully.
Restore habitat.
Steward the land.
Pass knowledge forward.
About GoodRoots
What we're growing toward
GoodRoots is beginning with a garden, but the long-term vision is larger: a small, community-oriented growing space that produces food for both people and place, provides opportunities for hands-on learning, and demonstrates regenerative approaches to land stewardship.
Mission & Vision
Mission:
Know. Connect. Care.
GoodRoots is a growing, place-based project exploring our relationships with plants, land, and the living world.
Vision:
GoodRoots is a growing project rooted in a small garden in northern Minnesota, with a long-term vision of becoming a community learning farm.