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Some of our crops

Image of New Zealand spinach

New Zealand spinach

Tetragonia tetragonioides
Image of dates

dates

Phoenix dactylifera
Image of Mediterranean cabbage

Mediterranean cabbage

Brassica fruticulosa
Image of seven year melon

seven year melon

Cucurbita ficifolia
Image of land cress

land cress

Barbarea verna
Image of lime

lime

Citrus spp.
Image of chia

chia

Salvia hispanica
Image of chamomile

chamomile

Matricaria chamomila
Image of coconut

coconut

Cocos nucifera
Image of tromboncino

tromboncino

Cucurbita moschata
Image of Japanese cherry

Japanese cherry

Prunus serrulata
Image of Scotch bonnet pepper

Scotch bonnet pepper

Capsicum chinense
Image of wild mint

wild mint

Mentha arvensis
Image of black mint

black mint

Tagetes minuta
Image of tomato

tomato

Solanum lycopersicum
Image of sprouting broccoli summer purple

sprouting broccoli summer purple

Brassica oleracea italica
Image of cardoon

cardoon

Cynara cardunculus
Image of Beale's barberry

Beale's barberry

Mahonia bealei
Image of shiso

shiso

Perilla frutescens var. crispa
Image of Canadian serviceberry

Canadian serviceberry

Amelanchier canadensis
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Seeds available to trade

cantaloupe

cantaloupe

seeds saved by dewanto
Yogyakarta

tomato

tomato

seeds saved by why

1 seeds
  • certified organic
  • heirloom

habanero pepper

habanero pepper

seeds saved by CloCkWeRX
Rosewater,...

20 seeds

cucumber

cucumber

seeds saved by peterstoops
Brooseinde...

sunflower

sunflower

seeds saved by lejun
Besançon

50 seeds
  • non-certified organic
  • hybrid

coriander

coriander

seeds saved by Storm
Portland,...

  • non-certified organic
  • non-certified GMO-free
  • heirloom

pumpkin

pumpkin

seeds saved by Storm
Portland,...

  • non-certified organic
  • non-certified GMO-free
  • heirloom

smallage

smallage

seeds saved by Storm
Portland,...

  • certified organic
  • certified GMO-free
  • heirloom

Island Bay tomato

Island Bay tomato

seeds saved by shiny
Wellington, NZ

500 seeds
  • heirloom

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Recent posts

What's in the larder

by shiny,

A whole year of growing, digging, fermenting, and canning eventually comes down to a shelf. Here's what was actually on it, as of early July:

Pantry - 2× pasta sauce - 14× tomato sauce - 4× tomato paste - 3× (huge) jars of pears with cardamom - 4× beef bone broth - 2× rendered lard - About 1…

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Pumpkins, kumara, and pressing this year's cider

by shiny,

Autumn is when the garden hands over the last of what it's got, and the cider press comes back out.

The last of the harvest

  • Mar 26 — still harvesting.
  • Apr 6 — some whataroa harvested.
  • Apr 19 — risotto for dinner, made with pumpkin that grew straight out of the compost, p…
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The tomato glut

by shiny,

If this year's harvest had a main character, it was tomatoes. Here's how it went, roughly day by day.

Waiting

Early January was all impatience. The tomatoes just needed consistent days over 22°C to actually ripen, and Wellington — as Wellington does — wasn't cooperating. "Come on #Wellingt…

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Strawberries, barley, and the first Christmas spud

by shiny,

By November the garden stopped being a promise and started being an actual source of food again.

Strawberry wine ambitions

I saw a strawberry wine idea online somewhere and decided it was now a mission. It went straight onto the to-do list alongside dress rehearsals and concerts: harvest b…

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Video guides for your favourite crops

by CloCkWeRX,

In a recent release, we've added links to youtube videos covering the core aspects of growing a number of crops; as well as displaying the parent attributes of a variety when no more specific information is known.

If you are a creator or know someone who provides clear, useful content; submit a …

Read more

Spring Prep

by shiny,

Spring prep and last season's ferments

It's spring again, which means it's time to look back at what an entire year of "grow it, ferment it, preserve it" actually looked like — starting last August, when none of this year's harvest existed yet, just seedlings, hail, and a lot of hope.

Hail…

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2. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen'.

For Android

1. Tap the three dots in the top right corner of Chrome.
2. Tap Install app or Add to Home screen.

release94

2026-09-22

What changed

Faster editing of your garden plantings

image

Give crops icons from Fluent Emoji

by @Br3nda #4837

Let plantings use a crop's alternate name

by @Br3nda in #4828

Dependencies and maintenance
  • release93 (Memory optimisation, misc fixes round 2) by @CloCkWeRX in #4804
  • Make memcached opt-in, default to a capped in-process cache by @Br3nda in #4814
  • Throttle /activities and /api/v1/activities per IP by @Br3nda in #4815
  • Stop the crop wrangler spec racing a live GBIF request by @CloCkWeRX in #4819
  • Bump aws-sdk-s3 from 1.232.0 to 1.232.1 by @dependabot[bot] in #4818
  • Remove a stray Delete link from the garden page by @CloCkWeRX in #4820
  • Chore/bootstrap 5 by @Br3nda in #4813
  • Improving usability of the plantings editor by @Br3nda in #4816
  • Take Leaflet.markercluster from npm instead of rails-assets.org by @Br3nda in #4836
  • Filter harvest reminders in SQL instead of Ruby memory by @CloCkWeRX in #4831
  • Paginate garden photos and limit plantings in garden show/index views by @CloCkWeRX in #4830
  • Release 94 by @Br3nda in #4825

Full Changelog: release93...release94

release93

2026-09-20

What's Changed

Quick planting addition form

image by @Br3nda in https://github.com//pull/4808
Dependencies and Maintenance
  • Add rake tasks to pull crops and a member's data from production by @Br3nda in #4803
  • Fix new harvest from planting not prefilling crop and add regression specs by @CloCkWeRX in #4786
  • Optimize markdownify allocations with in-place gsub! and combined regex by @CloCkWeRX in #4805
  • Optimize SearchCrops#search_data planter IDs and photo counter by @CloCkWeRX in #4806
  • Fix: Add pagination to crops#data_improvement by @CloCkWeRX in #4807
  • Cap RSS feeds iterate unbounded associations with limit(50) by @CloCkWeRX in #4809
  • Optimize Wikidata rake task with find_each and preloading by @CloCkWeRX in #4812
  • Require specific Rails frameworks instead of rails/all by @CloCkWeRX in #4811
  • Use :info log level in production by default by @CloCkWeRX in #4810

Full Changelog: release92...release93

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