Purpose
Cultivating resilience, community, equity, ecosystem regeneration, and connection to the living world.
Vision
A world where the ways we meet our needs strengthen the relationships, ecosystems, and shared resources that sustain us.
Roots
2023: Rooting Resilience takes root
Rooting Resilience was founded around an ambitious first project: creating Columbus's first food forest on public land.
Fall 2023–Spring 2024: Working toward a public food forest
We began working with Columbus Recreation and Parks to explore bringing the project to public land.
Summer 2024: A change in direction
After months of navigating institutional barriers, the food forest project came to an end. The experience raised bigger questions about what makes community resilience projects possible, and what gets in their way.
Fall 2025: Columbus Neighbor Grocery Match
During the 2025 SNAP crisis, Rooting Resilience launched the Columbus Neighbor Grocery Match, connecting neighbors to directly support one another with grocery costs.
Summer 2026: A food forest finds us
Rooting Resilience was invited to help develop a food forest at Mid-Ohio Food Collective in partnership with the Franklin County Local Food Council.
