Tools and network sites

Last updated: 14 June 2026

Free grower tools, learning sites, and regional hubs across the Vector Group Charitable Trust (CC45966) network. RootyToot is the social layer — use this page as a map when you want to plan, learn, list, or go deeper. Everything below opens in a new tab on its home domain.

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Free grower tools (Troppo)

Browser-based calculators and planners — no install, free to use.

• Orchard & Food Forest Planner — design food forests and orchards with species, spacings, NZ climate zones, and harvest timelines.
• Companion Planting Matrix — which plants grow well together; guilds including Three Sisters and rongoā Māori.
• Continuous Harvests Calendar — succession planting for year-round kai across NZ regional climate zones.
• Food Forest Layer Visualiser — canopy, sub-canopy, shrub, ground cover, root, vine, and fungi layers.
• Food Forest Quiz — permaculture, syntropic agroforestry, and regenerative growing in Aotearoa.
• Nursery Map — find NZ nurseries for rare edibles and subtropical stock.

Learn

• Food Resilience School NZ — free courses, workshops, cohorts, and certificates for kai resilience nationwide.
• Kai Resilience — school hub — funnel into the school from the national directory.
• Troppo — tropical urban food forest, nursery, and education in the Bay of Plenty.
• Food Forests NZ — grower gateway: tools, FAQ, and network links from Kaitaia to Invercargill.

Plan your land

• RegenOS — regenerative land planning, site analysis, and food-forest workflows on your whenua.
• 90-Day Health Tracker — private phone-first wellness journal (symptoms, food, labs on your device; no account).

Directories and listings

• Kai Resilience — national directory: growers, workshops, nurseries, and regional listings.
• RootyToot directory — people, groups, and projects on this network.
• Kiwifruit.Capital — Bay of Plenty regional gateway: harvest work, events, tourism, and community listings.

Regional — Te Puke and Bay of Plenty

• Te Puke Today — local news and community stories.
• Te Puke Online — authoritative Te Puke web gateway.
• Te Puke Digital — regional web design, SEO, and digital infrastructure (built RootyToot and the school platform).

Charity and programme hub

• Vector Group Charitable Trust — youth, kai resilience, and community programmes across Aotearoa.
• VGCT — Food Resilience School news — workshops and programme updates.
• OSVector — organisational memory and knowledge ingest for trust transparency and reporting.

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