Show me the money (Growstuff’s finances for the last few months)
A month or so back, we launched paid accounts on Growstuff. The plan with Growstuff has always been to have paid memberships supporting the operation of the site and, in the not-too-distant future,...
View ArticleTell us what you want Growstuff to be: take our roadmap survey
Well, we launched, and that is a wonderful thing… but be don’t intend to rest on our laurels. No, we want to keep working on new features for Growstuff, and make it even better. We’re conducting a...
View ArticleGrowstuff’s roadmap for the rest of the year
As you probably know, Growstuff is an open source project and we work closely in collaboration with our members, making sure that everyone’s involved at every stage of development. Over the last few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing seed tracking and trading
We don’t waste time! Working on our roadmap for 2013, it became clear that seed tracking and trading was important to lots of people. It’s certainly important to me — it turns out I already have four...
View ArticleIt’s time to start building apps with Growstuff data
Since the beginning, one of Growstuff’s main goals has been to provide open data about crops, planting times, and how to grow stuff. The term “open data” refers to data that’s free to share and re-use,...
View ArticleWant to be a crop wrangler?
“What’s a crop wrangler?” I hear you ask. Well, a crop wrangler is a Growstuff member who volunteers a little bit of time (we’d estimate an hour a month, averaged over time) to keep Growstuff’s crop...
View ArticleWe’ve dropped the price of our paid accounts
From the start, we wanted to make our paid accounts “pay what you want”, so that people could support Growstuff at whatever level fitted their budget and level of enthusiasm. Somehow, along the way, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grower profile: Andrea, the Goat Lady
Last week I had the great good fortune to interview Andrea, who goes by GoatLady on Growstuff and blogs at The Manor of Mixed Blessings. Andrea lives on a small farm in the Virginia Piedmont with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harvest Benchmarking: a collaboration with Permaculture Melbourne
How much food can you produce in a home garden? How efficient is small-scale food production compared to mainstream farming? Can you live off what you grow in an ordinary suburban block? I’m very...
View ArticleWe’re officially awesome!
Last night I checked my voicemail and heard a message that started with garbled static and ended with “… we’d like to give you one thousand dollars!” Of course I called them straight back. “Hi, I have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Track your harvests with Growstuff
How much does your garden produce? You can now track your harvests, as well as your plantings, with Growstuff. We’ve just rolled out the first set of harvest features, including: Track your harvests —...
View ArticleHappy New Year from Growstuff
For those who use the Gregorian calendar, happy new year! And for those who celebrate holidays around this time, I hope you had good ones. After a slow December, we’re back in top form for 2014, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Growstuff features for September 3rd, 2014
Today we updated the Growstuff website and have a bunch of great new features, including: A crop “suggest” widget, instead of an unwieldy dropdown, when you are planting, harvesting, or saving seeds We...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Growstuff’s finances, 2013-2014
Another financial year has passed since I posted Show me the money in July 2013, and I thought it might be good to post about our financial situation over the last 12 months. The original goal, as that...
View ArticleSupport Growstuff’s crowdfunding campaign for open food data
Hey everyone! I’m very excited to have just launched our first crowdfunding campaign. Check out this video, where I talk about the importance of open data for food growers: We’re raising money for an...
View Article10 reasons to support Growstuff’s funding campaign
We’re two weeks from the end of our crowdfunding campaign and I don’t mind telling you it’s incredibly hard work — especially when you manage to sprain your wrist and can’t spend too long at the...
View ArticleResults of our API crowdfunding, and project plans for December/January
Here’s an update on the outcomes of our crowdfunding campaign that finished a few weeks back. Since then, Alex has been travelling and running conferences, so apologies for the slow turnaround on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This week in Growstuff (January 24th, 2015)
A roundup of what’s interesting in the world of Growstuff (and growing stuff), over the last week. Two new crops for the Growstuff’s crop database, suggested by danielneis in Brazil: jabuticaba (Plinia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Announcing Growstuff’s New Advisory Board
We’re very excited to announce that Growstuff has recently gained an Advisory Board. We’ve brought together an international team of people who are passionate about innovation, community, and helping...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This week in Growstuff (February 8th, 2015)
Here’s a roundup of what’s been happening in the world of Growstuff over the last week or so. Our new advisory board In case you missed it, the other day we announced Growstuff’s new advisory board,...
View Article
