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Some of our crops

Image of oyster mushroom

oyster mushroom

Pleurotus ostreatus
Image of red-twigged shadbush

red-twigged shadbush

Amelanchier sanguinea
Image of Bird's Eye Chili

Bird's Eye Chili

Capsicum annuum
Image of pomelo

pomelo

Citrus maxima
Image of snowy mespilus

snowy mespilus

Amelanchier ovalis
Image of avocado

avocado

Persea americana
Image of eggplant

eggplant

Solanum melongena
Image of brussels sprouts

brussels sprouts

Brassica oleracea
Image of salsify

salsify

Tragopogon porrifolius
Image of garlic

garlic

Allium sativum
Image of sweet pepper etiuda

sweet pepper etiuda

Capsicum annuum var annuum Etiuda
Image of za'atar

za'atar

Origanum syriacum
Image of grape

grape

Vitis spp.
Image of Munstead Lavendar

Munstead Lavendar

Lavandula angustifolia
Image of caraway thyme

caraway thyme

Thymus herba-barona
Image of black mustard

black mustard

Brassica nigra
Image of Jackfruit

Jackfruit

Artocarpus heterophyllus
Image of Mediterranean cabbage

Mediterranean cabbage

Brassica fruticulosa
Image of Potato Onion

Potato Onion

Allium cepa
Image of pumpkin

pumpkin

Cucurbita spp.
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Seeds available to trade

giant pumpkin

giant pumpkin

seeds saved by shiny
Wellington, NZ

fava bean

fava bean

seeds saved by shiny
Wellington, NZ

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

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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 …

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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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release95

2026-09-27

Features

Garden Layout

Add a garden layout page for mapping where plants sit in a bed by @Br3nda in #4835

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What's Changed

Full Changelog: release94...release95

release94

2026-09-22

What changed

Faster editing of your garden plantings

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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

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