For backyard food growers
Guides for every crop and zone, recipes from the garden, and real talk about the struggle of growing food at home. The app is coming. The community starts now.
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What's here right now
No app required. All of this is live today — just pick a crop and start reading.
900+ guides
Every crop, every zone. Vegetables, fruit trees, mushrooms — with planting windows, spacing, companion plants, and what to watch for season by season.
Browse guides18+ recipes
Simple, seasonal recipes built around what you actually grew. From cherry tomato pasta to herb oils — real food from a real backyard.
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"I just want to know when to plant my tomatoes and why my cucumbers keep dying."
— every first-season grower, everywhere
Not the master gardener who's been composting since childhood. The first-timer. The backyard hobbyist. The parent who wants to grow something with their kids.
If you've ever killed a tomato plant and felt personally offended by it, you're in the right place.
Coming in 2027
A zone-aware planting calendar, real-time weather alerts, and a traffic light for every crop. Free to start, on iOS.
Everything in the guides, distilled into a tool that knows your zone, watches your local weather, and tells you exactly what to do right now. Launching on Kickstarter in October 2027, App Store in February 2028.
Kickstarter · October 2027
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Videos, stories, and the occasional disaster — all of it, as it happens. Come watch us figure this out.
Trevor Rawson Lewis · Founder
"I'm a dad of three who researched food deserts, fell down a rabbit hole, and decided to do something about it."
I'm not a gardener. I didn't grow up with a vegetable patch. I started researching food deserts a few years ago and couldn't stop thinking about one thing: growing your own food should be accessible to everyone, not just people with the time and knowledge to figure it out on their own.
plant grew out of that frustration. The guides, the recipes, the app — all of it is built around one question: what would have helped me when I planted my first sad tomato seedling and had absolutely no idea what I was doing?
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