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Some of our crops

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bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
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Jerusalem artichoke

Helianthus tuberosus
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bay laurel

Laurus nobilis
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peanut

Arachis hypogaea
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chickpea

Cicer arietinum
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murnong

Microseris lanceolata
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kaffir lime

Citrus x hystrix
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lemon verbena

Aloysia citrodora
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sprouting broccoli summer purple

Brassica oleracea italica
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shiso

Perilla frutescens var. crispa
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Adirondack Blue

Solanum tuberosum var atom
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yellow bean

phaseolus vulgaris
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alexanders

Smyrnium olusatrum
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cicely

Myrrhis odorata
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dates

Phoenix dactylifera
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bhut jolokia chilli pepper

Capsicum chinense
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piri-piri pepper

Capsicum frutescens
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naranjilla

Solanum quitoense
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popcorn

Zea mays everta
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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 …

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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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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

release92

2026-09-20

What's Changed

  • Remove Unicorn dependency and update Gemfile.lock, enable Puma clustered workers with preloading
  • Add require: false to aws-sdk-s3 in Gemfile
  • Bump msgpack from 1.8.4 to 1.8.5
  • Bump adm-zip from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1

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