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Rooted
Rooted is the free newsletter from Garden Hero: advice that fits your zone and a pantry for the extra. Our garden makeover show is coming in 2027.
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We're the folks behind Rooted, a free gardening newsletter. Garden Hero TV is a garden makeover show coming in 2027. Backed by the World Food Bank, we help gardeners grow food they trust and share their surplus.
Why now? Trust in store-bought food is slipping. Confidence in U.S. food safety fell from 70% to 62% between 2022 and 2024 (IFIC Food & Health Survey, 2024). Growing your own puts you back in charge, whether it's your first tomato or your fortieth season.
New to it? We'll help you start with confidence. Been at it for years? We'll help you grow more to share, use less water and make room for pollinators. Either way, the extra goes to neighbors who'll be glad to get it.
Our free newsletter. Seasonal help, fixes for real problems and stories of gardeners who share. Written for anyone from first-trowel beginners to decades-deep growers.
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A garden makeover show, coming in 2027. Neighbors turn a tired, thirsty yard into a garden that feeds the family, the bees and the local food pantry.
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Gardeners who grow more than they can eat and pass it on. We tell their stories and help you join them.
Find a pantryNot a mockup. This is the opening and the quick hits from issue one, word for word.
Read the latest issueSeptember flips a switch. The tomatoes keep coming, but somewhere in the back of your head a countdown just started: how many weeks until frost. Today we get specific about that number instead of guessing, retire a companion planting myth your garden club still swears by, and hand this week's zucchini glut to people who actually need it.
Three minutes, then back to the dirt.
We garden without chemicals, the regenerative way, which just means leaving the soil richer than you found it. Water-wise and wildlife friendly. The harvest is safe to eat and safe to share.
Deer eat the lettuce. The compost pile sulks. We'll help you fix it and laugh about it, without the lecture.
Using the latest data analytics, we will bring info and tools tailored for your specific gardening conundrums.
Already drowning in zucchini? We'll help you plan your surplus and get it to the neighbors, school gardens and food pantries that want it.
Pick a topic. Every post is written for your USDA zone and sourced to university extension pages.
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Every guide covers zones 3 through 11, so the advice fits your frost date, not somebody else's.
When the zucchini wins, we point you to a pantry that wants it and tell you what they can actually take.
A garden that feeds your table, and the neighbors when it overflows.
Another season of generic advice, plants that die from fussing, and a zucchini bag on somebody's porch.
Garden Hero exists so food grown in a backyard ends up on a table, including tables that aren't yours. Fresh produce is what pantries most need and don't always get (Feeding America).
When your harvest outruns your kitchen, we'll point you to a pantry near you and tell you what it can take. Our pantry finder is on its way. Until then, Rooted points the way.
This fall, Rooted is visiting public gardens and bringing their best tricks home to you. Run a garden that would offer Rooted readers a deal? Tell us who to call.
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Rooted shares the stories of gardeners who grow more than they eat and pass the extra along. Know one near you? Tell us about them.
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