Open Source Grow Planning: GrowGood
For too long, farm management software has been designed for an industrial mindset. It’s often rigid, expensive, and forces growers into a generic mould that ignores the diverse, living reality of regenerative agriculture. These tools are built on a philosophy of extraction, not regeneration, making it impossible to capture the true story of your farm—the story of soil being built, biodiversity returning, and ecological health being restored.
Read More
Investing in Outcomes
We have journeyed from the personal story behind GrowGood to the way its Blueprints learn to speak the language of your farm. Now, we arrive at the most crucial part of our conversation: the future we can grow together. This is a vision that extends beyond the farm gate, connecting our individual efforts into a powerful, collective force for regeneration.
Read More
Speaking the Language of the Land
In our first conversation, we talked about the need to re-value farming—to move beyond tools of extraction and build something that honours the complexity of living systems. Now, let’s explore how we begin to do that. It starts by learning to speak the language of the land, one farm at a time.
Read More
Re-Valuing Our Roots
For most of my life, I’ve had one foot in the soil and the other in the digital world. It has been a journey of homecoming, a return to the values I learned growing up on a farm, looking after the land that sustained us. This journey has been guided by a single, persistent question: how can we build tools that honour nature’s complexity, instead of trying to conquer it?
Read More
The Things Network South Australia
In a world dominated by centralised, corporate-owned networks, what if we could build our own? What if the infrastructure for the Internet of Things (IoT)—the very network that connects our sensors to the digital world—was owned and operated by the community it serves?
Read More