Untangled Roots LLC
Land intelligence & forest-botanical stewardship · Southern Middle Tennessee
Good ground, kept in balance.
Restoration, conservation management, and shade-grown botanicals on woodland you already own — across the hills and mountains of the Highland Rim and Cumberland Plateau. The land stays yours.
Own woodland in Franklin, Moore, or Coffee County?
From outside the area? Get in touch anyway — we consider all reasonable requests.
“We leave more than we found.”
Ours is never a take-all approach. We believe in the balance of conservation, restoration, and cultivation — on every acre, in every agreement, every year we’re on the ground.
What we do
Three services. One arrangement that fits your land.
01
Land Intelligence
We study parcels, habitat, and history to find woodland with real botanical potential — before we ever write a letter.
02
Stewardship Partnerships
Written agreements shaped around your comfort and how you already use the land: lease, access, or profit-share.
03
Restoration & Cultivation
Our crew does the on-the-ground work: restoring the forest and cultivating American ginseng with its companion species.
How a partnership works
Four steps, in plain English.
01
We identify your land
Our analysis flags woodland with the right slopes, soils, and canopy. If we’ve written to you, your parcel stood out.
02
We walk it together
A boots-on visit, at your pace. We show you what we see; you tell us what the land means to you.
03
We agree terms in writing
Lease, access, or profit-share — plain-language agreements, insured work, and boundaries you set.
04
We steward it, you share the return
We restore, plant, and tend for the long term. You stay informed, and the land stays yours.
19,000+
Parcels analyzed, and growing
3
Counties in active outreach
1938
Aerial imagery reconstructed
The modeling reaches farther — outreach expands as the database is built.
Why us
The method is the difference.
We don’t knock on doors at random. Before any letter goes out, a parcel has passed through layers of analysis: ownership and parcel records, habitat-suitability modeling built on slope, aspect, soils, and canopy, and a reconstruction of how the land was used nearly a century ago.
The 1938 aerial record matters more than it sounds. Ground that was forest then — and is forest now — carries soil biology that younger woods don’t. That history is often the difference between a promising site and a poor one.
A note on privacy
We never publish or share the locations of plant populations, candidate sites, or partner properties — yours or anyone’s. Discretion is part of the service.
About
Started in conservation. Stayed in it.
Untangled Roots began as a conservation project in the hills and mountains of Southern Middle Tennessee — the Highland Rim and the Cumberland Plateau — modeling habitat, replanting natives, and learning what the last century did to this ground. It became a working company because the land kept asking for one: too much good woodland sitting idle, and too many owners who’d never been shown what it could quietly grow.
We’re founder-led and Tennessee-based. When you call, you talk to the person who walks the land.
Contact
Start with a conversation.
No pressure and no obligation. Tell us roughly where your woodland is — the county is plenty — and we’ll take it from there.
We partner with individuals, families, organizations, companies, and most entities — inside the outreach counties or well beyond.
You’ll hear back from Trent, the founder — usually within a couple of days.