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.

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 DO NOT make your farm depend upon it. Not yet, at least.

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