What you can do with Grow Food Together

Grow Food Together helps you get better at growing food. Keep track of what you plant, try, and harvest, learn from other gardeners, and get help with your next step. You can use it for a garden you tend alone or one you share with others.

#The four things it’s good at

Learning from your growing. Record your plants and the work you do, from watering and feeding to trying a new way of supporting tomatoes. Add notes and photos so you can look back at what happened. A record helps you remember what you want to repeat or change; it does not require an entry every day.

Learning from other growers. Follow public gardens to see their activity in your feed. Ask questions about a harvest or a method someone tried. You can also visit a private garden by invitation. If you tend a garden together, people with editing access can contribute to the same record.

Techniques are growing methods people have written up. Read one, ask a question, and add it to your garden. When a technique includes an activity action, you can select it when logging work. Share your observations in its comments so others can learn from your experience.

Understanding your harvests. Record what you pick by weight, count, or bunch. Look back at which plants produced what, and compare estimated harvest value with recorded costs. You can set crop prices that reflect what that food is worth to you. The value is an estimate, not income from selling produce.

Getting help with your next step. The AI assistant uses the details and history available in the garden you are discussing. Ask about a plant, think through what to grow next, or tell it about work you want to record. You can start a conversation from a plant’s page and include photos. Its suggestions help you investigate and decide; they are not a guarantee of a result.

#Planning

Use seed starting to track trays through germination and transplanting. The sowing calendar uses frost dates to suggest when to start crops. You can ask the assistant about plans for your beds too. There is no visual drag-and-drop bed designer.

#What it deliberately doesn’t do

The plant diagnosis feature is intended to help with a problem on a plant you have recorded. It is not an identification tool for an unknown plant.

The assistant works within the garden you are asking about. It does not read someone else’s garden or compare all the gardens you follow.

You can use the records, sharing, photos, and analytics without using AI.

#What costs money

An account is free. You can browse published techniques, follow public gardens, comment, and accept invitations without a subscription of your own. A garden you create has a subscription, with a free trial. See pricing for current launch terms, prices, and allowances.

If a garden’s subscription ends, its existing records stay readable and shareable. Owners and managers can export its records and photos from settings. A subscription is needed to resume adding and editing records. See account and plans for details.

#Where to go next

Start with getting started to create a garden, or you were invited to a garden to join someone else’s. For a closer look at beds and plant records, read how gardens are organized.