A community for backyard farmers
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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900+ guides
Every crop, every zone. Vegetables, fruit trees, mushrooms. 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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Trevor Rawson Lewis
Co-Founder, plant
"Growing your own food used to be something everyone knew how to do. We're bringing that back."
At the peak of World War II Victory Gardens, nearly half of American households grew their own food. Today that number has fallen to under 4%. We think it's time to change that. plant is built around a simple goal: get back to 50%.
I started with a failed tomato plant and a rabbit hole about food deserts. The guides, the recipes, the app — all of it grew from one question: what would have helped me when I had absolutely no idea what I was doing?
Read the full storyComing in 2027
Everything in the guides, in your pocket. Knows your zone, watches your weather, and tells you exactly what to plant — and when to stop. Free to start, on iOS.
Open the app. See every crop you're growing. Know immediately if you should be planting, waiting, or harvesting — for your exact location, right now. No charts to decode, no dates to calculate. Just a clear answer.
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.
Who this is for
"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.
