Know. Connect. Care.

GoodRoots is a growing, place-based project exploring our relationships with plants, land, and the living world.

What we do

GoodRoots is a working garden, place-based project, and demonstration site in northern Minnesota, where people can learn about plants, land, food, and stewardship through hands-on experience.

We’re still discovering what GoodRoots can become. The project is intentionally experimental and collaborative, creating opportunities to learn, share knowledge, spend time on the land, and imagine new ways of living in relationship with the places we call home.

Come learn with us.

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.

Handwritten garden sign reading 'As I work on the garden, the garden works on me' surrounded by plants and flowers.