Roger Doiron is the founder of SeedMoney, a Maine-based nonprofit that helps public food gardens thrive through grants, training, and crowdfunding. Since 2015, SeedMoney has enabled more than 3,000 gardens to launch or expand, reaching over 980,000 people across the United States and around the world.
A longtime advocate for gardening and food sovereignty, Roger led the “Eat the View” campaign that helped convince the Obamas to plant the first White House vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. His work has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR, and he is the speaker behind the TEDx talk “My Subversive (Garden) Plot.”
Roger brings an international perspective to his local efforts. In the 1990s he directed the Brussels office of Friends of the Earth during Europe’s mad cow crisis, and in 2002 he served on the U.S. NGO delegation to the United Nations World Food Summit in Rome. His advocacy career was launched in part by his selection as a Food and Society Fellow through the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Holy Cross College, Roger holds a master’s degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He continues to write about the intersection of food, sustainability, and philanthropy—most recently in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Today, Roger finds joy in tending a smaller home garden and spending time outdoors with his wife, sons, and grandson. Both his personal life and nonprofit work reflect a growing interest in helping others discover abundance through simplicity, sustainability, and authentic connection.
