Local Roots Ambassadors
Build a more resilient community - one gardener at a time.
Ambassadors inspire neighbors to grow food, help them share their harvest, and earn Roots Points as local food production flourishes. When our community grows more, we all become stronger.
The Mission: Community Food Resilience
What happens when supply chains break? When grocery stores can't stock shelves? Communities that grow their own food thrive.
Local Roots isn't just a marketplace - it's a movement to get more people growing food, sharing with neighbors, and building the local food networks that make communities resilient.
What Ambassadors Do
🔍 Find & Inspire Growers
- • Spot backyard gardens on walks around the neighborhood
- • Talk to folks at farmers markets and community gardens
- • "Extra produce" posts on Nextdoor? That's your cue!
- • Encourage non-gardeners: "You have a sunny yard..."
🚀 Get Them Started
- • Help them sign up with email or phone (easy!)
- • Help create their first listing together
- • Take good photos of their produce
- • Show them how $ROOTS becomes real value
📈 Help Them Grow More
- • Check in: "What are you planting next season?"
- • Connect them with other local growers
- • Suggest expanding: "Your neighbors love your tomatoes!"
- • Introduce the idea of homemade goods (jams, pickles...)
🍳 The Future: Homemade Foods
- • Help producers expand into prepared foods
- • Casseroles, baked goods, preserves, sauces
- • Guide them on local cottage food laws
- • More production = more community resilience
Ambassador Rewards
When a gardener you bring in starts sharing their harvest, you earn Roots Points, and you keep earning from their sales for their first full year on Local Roots. Ambassador rewards are Roots Points, not cash.
Example: Bring in 10 gardeners who each sell $100 a month. That's 25,000 Roots Points in welcome bonuses, plus 100,000 Roots Points a month from their sales (80% of the 125 per $1 — the other 20% goes to whoever brought you in). Keep bringing people in to keep your points growing!
The 1-year reward window means successful ambassadors are always recruiting:
- • Bring in 10 gardeners in Year 1 → earn from all 10
- • Bring in 10 more in Year 2 → earn from 20 gardeners
- • Year 1 gardeners “age out” → but you've added more!
- • Steady recruiting = steady Roots Points
Ambassadors are recognized leaders:
- • Special Ambassador badge on profile
- • Leaderboard ranking by sellers onboarded
- • Ambassador Discord for tips & coordination
- • Early access to new features
Ambassadors can recruit other ambassadors and earn from their success too. When someone you recruit brings in gardeners, a share of their Roots Points flows up to you.
How it works: You recruit Alice as an ambassador. Alice brings in 5 gardeners. When they sell, Alice keeps 80% of the Roots Points from their sales and 20% flows up to you. Build a team of ambassadors and multiply your impact on community food resilience.
🌳 Leadership share
Once 50 gardeners in your network are selling — the ones you brought in plus everyone your ambassadors brought in — you also earn 10% of all the Roots Points your whole network's sales produce. It's earned by building a team, never handed out, and it comes only from real sales — nobody earns anything just for signing people up.
Ambassadors join by invite. Ask an ambassador you know for their invite link — that's how every team grows. Sign up with your email or phone; no crypto experience needed.
Get an Invite
Open the invite link an ambassador shared with you
Sign Up
Use your email or phone and get your own invite link
Start Building
Recruit growers and other ambassadors