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field notes from the neighborhood nursery ↓
Guides for the garden, the harvest & the pantry shelf — plus news from the team and what to swap on your block right now.
start here if you've never snipped a stem →
the no-kill guide to your first cutting.
It is almost impossible to actually kill a cutting, because plants are built to do this. Where to cut, what to cut with, why it even works, and why your pothos will forgive you. Five minutes of reading, one glass of water, a whole new plant to swap.
rootr. is coming to iOS & android.
Native apps are on the way, same rootr. underneath. We'll be looking for pilot users before it's a wide release, and here's how to be one of them.
july on the block: what to swap right now.
Tomatoes are outpacing everyone, zucchini is a cry for help, and stone fruit will not wait a day. Your month, itemized, with the botany of why each one floods and how Portland and Brevard read July completely differently.
every entry so far.
grow slow. grow on purpose.
Our whole edict, in one line: we might be slow, but we are relentlessly on purpose. Why Portland and Brevard County came first, why harvest and pantry came next, and why the real power here is yours.
sharing food with neighbors, without the awkward.
Unopened, in date, honestly labeled. The three-word rule that dissolves the awkwardness, plus a plain-English take on cottage-food rules, allergens, and the danger zone, so a handoff stays easy and safe for both porches.
the pantry shelf audit.
The warehouse-store double-buy. The rice crackers you grabbed on a whim. Fifteen minutes with your shelves and a marker, plus the truth about "best by" dates that makes it guilt-free.
the backyard egg economy.
Four hens make more breakfast than one house can eat, and here at the summer solstice they are laying at their absolute peak. The biology of the surplus, the honest label, and why eggs are the best opening move on the block.
swap etiquette: the porch pickup, perfected.
Label the box, name a window, keep it out of the danger zone, and the whole thing runs itself. The unwritten rules, plus the small food-safety details that keep a summer handoff honest.
root anything in water: a windowsill field manual.
Pothos, basil, fig: most of the block roots in a jam jar. The full field manual, covering which nodes to submerge, what roots easy versus what needs coaxing, why water-roots differ from soil-roots, and exactly when to pot up.
satellite beach, from the start.
rootr. launched live in Satellite Beach and Portland on the same day. Why the subtropical zone-10a Space Coast came first in every sense but the calendar, and what growing on a barrier island actually looks like.
portland, you're growing.
rootr. launched live in Portland and Satellite Beach on the same day. Why the temperate zone-8b Rose City fits a swap network like a glove, and how the first hundred swappers found each other.
tomato season is a group project.
One yard cannot eat forty pounds of Sungolds, and the plant that grew them was never going to stop. The botany of the glut, and how three blocks turned surplus into a standing Saturday swap.
write a listing neighbors actually want.
One honest photo, one handwritten line, one pickup window. The ninety-second recipe, plus what to actually show, from a cutting's nodes to a fruit's real ripeness.
merchant hubs are coming.
The bakery at 4pm has surplus too. Corner shops will be able to list day-end extras with their own pickup windows, recovering margin and building regulars instead of racing prices to the floor.
the great fall bulb swap is coming.
Daffodils divide when they go dormant in late summer. Flag your fat clumps now, while they are still in bloom. Your street's spring depends on what you mark in May.