Ecological Resistance
Who We Are
Plantriarchy is a grassroots collective in the Great Lakes region. Most of us live on fixed incomes. The nearest full grocery store is a drive. The soil is complicated and the infrastructure isn't there yet.
So we're building it ourselves. Community gardens, container growing, seed sharing, and herbal education — funded entirely by what we sell, taxed like everything else, and accountable to no one except the people eating the food.
We don't have a grant. We don't have a board of directors. We have dirt and the internet.
The Garden Initiative
Our community has the space and the people. What it doesn't have is the startup money for containers, clean soil, and seeds — the things that turn an empty yard into food.
We're not waiting for a government program to figure that out. Every mug, every t-shirt sold through our shop goes directly into materials. Containers. Soil. Seed. Tools. That's it. There's no overhead because there's no office. There's just us.
This isn't philanthropy. This is neighbors feeding neighbors with their own money and their own hands.
Free Resources
Garden planning guides, planting schedules, seed starting resources, herbal education — all of it is free to download. No paywall. No email capture. No strings.
The people who need this information the most are the people who can least afford to pay for it. So we don't charge for it.
The merch funds the free resources. The free resources fund the community. That's the whole model.
Transparency
We sell shirts, mugs, and other merch on Etsy. Etsy takes their fees. We pay taxes on what we earn. What's left buys physical materials for community garden builds in the Great Lakes region.
We're not a 501(c)(3). We don't want to be. Nonprofit status means government paperwork, reporting requirements, and strings that always come attached to "free" money. We'd rather sell you a t-shirt and buy seed packets with the profit.
→ Seed packets for community plots
→ Container garden supplies for fixed-income households
→ Clean soil and compost for raised bed builds
→ Printed growing guides for folks without internet access
→ Free downloadable resources for everyone
Support & Connect
Every purchase funds community garden materials and free resources. Every subscription supports the research and writing.