Four lines of work, one company
Tofte Ventures LLC operates four distinct lines of business. They don't share customers or supply chains, but they share the same operating philosophy: do the work ourselves, keep overhead low, and build things that last.
Land Restoration
Our land restoration work is ecological restoration and land care in the southwest Twin Cities metro, operated under the name Liatris Landscaping. The core of the work is invasive species management: buckthorn removal in particular, which is the single most common request we get from landowners trying to bring a wooded lot back into balance. From there it extends into wetland and shoreline restoration, stormwater and drainage correction, and native and pollinator plantings that hold soil, filter runoff, and actually support the local ecosystem instead of just looking green.
Clients range from individual homeowners to HOAs, municipalities, and watershed districts: anyone managing land that's degraded and needs a plan, not just a mow. This is hands-on, seasonal, outdoor work, and it's the most direct of the four: we go to the site, assess what's there, and do the restoration ourselves.
Liatris Landscaping has its own site with project details, service areas, and contact information. Visit liatrislandscaping.com.
Commerce
Our commerce business is sourcing and resale, run across eBay, Amazon, and Facebook Marketplace. It's built on finding value that other sellers miss or aren't equipped to handle: hardware, components, and equipment that's worth more once it's properly sourced, tested, and listed than it was sitting wherever we found it.
Alongside general resale, we carry a small sleep and wellness product line, a focused set of products rather than a sprawling catalog. We also rent equipment directly: a dump trailer and storage space, both useful to the same kind of customer who's doing property work, hauling, or needs somewhere secure to keep things for a while.
It's the most varied of the four by design. Markets shift, listings come and go, and the point isn't to specialize in one category; it's to be good at finding and moving value wherever it shows up. That means watching for pricing gaps between platforms, knowing what a piece of used equipment is actually worth once it's cleaned up and tested, and being willing to hold inventory for the right buyer instead of dumping it at the first offer.
Compute
Our compute business runs distributed GPU and ASIC infrastructure. The hardware behind it is sourced secondhand: cards and miners that have already done a first life somewhere else, then rebuilt, tuned, and returned to service rather than replaced with something new out of the box. Nothing here runs in a dedicated data center; it runs on existing space and existing power, scaled to what that space can actually support.
That sourcing choice isn't incidental. It's the whole point of how we think about compute: buy machines that already exist instead of manufacturing demand for new ones, run them at a power target instead of flat out, and put the heat they produce to use instead of venting it away. It's worth explaining in full rather than as a footnote here.
Software
Software development and web application building, both as products of our own and as work we do end to end. The pattern is the same one that runs through the rest of the portfolio: design it, build it, ship it, and then actually operate it, rather than handing something off at launch and walking away.
ResetKit is the furthest along. It's auth infrastructure: password reset codes, two-factor authentication, and the dashboard around them. Those flows are easy to get subtly wrong and tedious to maintain, so the case for something purpose-built is straightforward. It runs as a live service with its own subscription plans.
The web work sits alongside it. This site and liatrislandscaping.com are both designed, built, and run in house on Next.js and Vercel, which means the whole stack stays under one roof: domain, email, deployment, and the code itself. Running our own infrastructure is also how we learn what holds up, which is the part that carries over to anything we build for someone else.