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Crop Planning Software

Crop Planning Software for small farmers and serious gardeners. Plan for and manage the myriad crops, varieties and plantings required to keep a modern, intensive market garden producing throughout the growing season. This is a cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Unix, etc) desktop application that allows small farmers and gardeners to: Create, duplicate and delete crops and plantings; inherit data from other plantings and crops; key in a few data and let the program calculate the rest for you; sort and filter your plantings. These are all possible and new features are being added all the time. The software has been released as open source, free software and therefore is and will always be available free of charge. Those who donate, however, will have access to priority email support.

Download for Windows (and other platforms) Version: Beta2 Released: Nov 25, 2009	Download for Mac Version: Beta2 Released: Nov 25, 2009

Project Status

The Feb 2010 issue of Growing For Market features a one page write up of this software project!

Also, as of Feb 2010, we are still working on a new version full of performance enhancing bugs. Please get in touch if you like to help in any way. And please consider donating.

Start Here

Download the software.
See the program in action, including weekly planting lists.
Learn how to use the program, including it's advanced features.
Sign up for our email announcement service to keep track of the latest news about the program.
Contact us at cropplanning@gmail.com with questions, concerns, suggestions, and such.
Help us! Right now, the best way to help us is to try out the software and tell us what you think about it.

Features

familiar, spreadsheet-like interface
easily create and print weekly field planting and GH seeding lists
sort and filter your crop plans so you only see what you want to see
powerful database makes it easier to work with your plans and keep data linked together
easily keep track of whether something has been planted, transplanted and harvested
easily keep track of the actual and planned dates upon which something is planted, transplanted and harvested
data can be "linked" from crops ==> varieties ==> individual plantings
enter certain values and have others calculated automatically; for example:

enter a number of beds or row-feet to plant and the program can calculate how many transplants you'll need
enter a desired yield quantity and the program can tell you how many row-feet or beds you should plant
enter your desired date of harvest and the program can estimate when to plant

import & export data
bed and row lengths can be set for every field or even for every bed
New! Missed a planting? Don't delete it, just ignore it (ie, "skip" it) to get it out of the way.
New! Plantings can be explicitly marked as direct seeded or transplanted and can have different planting data accordingly.

What it Doesn't Do ... Yet

seed sourcing and estimation of amounts needed
fertilizer recommendations
estimation of labor needs across the season
tracking actual yields (though yield estimation IS supported)
"sanity checks": warnings about tender plantings around frost dates, too many plantings scheduled for land base and/or GH space, etc

Important Notice: For Testing Only

This software is currently under development and is changing rapidly. Please DO download it, try it out and let us know what you think; but please keep in mind that it's not finished.