About RootyToot

Last updated: 14 June 2026

RootyToot is Aotearoa's green social network — a place for growers, food-forest builders, and kai-resilience communities to share progress, host events, list free courses, and connect beyond the scroll. Tagline: Cultivate the life you love.

RootyToot is operated by Vector Group Charitable Trust (registration CC45966) and built by Te Puke Digital. It sits in the wider VGCT network alongside learning, directory, and regional sites — each with its own job, linked so you can move from inspiration to action.

What you can do here

• Post photos, updates, and questions from your garden, orchard, or community kai project.
• Join groups and follow growers with similar interests.
• Create and discover events — workshops, working bees, and meet-ups.
• Browse and share free course listings that link to full lessons on the school platform.
• Find people and projects through the RootyToot directory.

RootyToot is community-first, not an ad feed. Read our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use before you post.

Learn and grow

• Food Resilience School NZ — free courses, workshops, cohorts, and certificates for kai resilience across Aotearoa. Public course and event listings from RootyToot can link back here for enrolment and RSVPs.
• Kai Resilience — national directory for growers, workshops, nurseries, and regional listings. Start at the school hub or grower tools hub.
• Food Forests NZ — gateway to food-forest knowledge and network links for growers building perennial systems.
• Troppo — tropical urban food forest, nursery, and education in the Bay of Plenty. Free calculators and planners live on Troppo subdomains linked from Kai Resilience tools.
• RegenOS — land planning and regenerative systems; apply what you learn on your whenua.
• Nursery Map — find NZ nurseries for rare edibles and subtropical stock.

Regional — Bay of Plenty and beyond

• Kiwifruit.Capital — Bay of Plenty regional gateway: harvest work, events, tourism, and community listings for kiwifruit country.
• Te Puke Today — local news and community stories for Te Puke and the wider BoP.
• Te Puke Online — authoritative Te Puke web gateway feeding the regional network.

Charity, memory, and infrastructure

• Vector Group Charitable Trust — umbrella charity for kai resilience, youth, and community programmes. News and project updates: Food Resilience School category.
• OSVector — organisational memory and knowledge ingest for VGCT programme work (transparency and grant reporting).
• Te Puke Digital — regional web design, SEO, and digital infrastructure; built RootyToot and the school platform.

Who RootyToot is for

Home growers, community gardens, schools, permaculture and food-forest groups, nursery people, and anyone building kai resilience in their neighbourhood — especially across Aotearoa New Zealand, with strong roots in Te Puke and the Bay of Plenty. You do not need to be a professional farmer. Share what you are learning, ask honest questions, and link out to courses and tools when you are ready to go deeper.

Join the community

Create a free account or sign in to post, join groups, and list events. Questions or partnership enquiries: [email protected] · VGCT contact page · RootyToot support.

RootyToot · Vector Group Charitable Trust CC45966 · Built by Te Puke Digital