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"Growing your own food is like printing your own money." - Ron Finley

I love to cook, and I love to eat. I'm concerned about pesticides, transport emissions, and fair trade. I also happen to have a background in Lean Manufacturing (how to do anything as efficiently as possible). Over the years, I found that growing my own food brings all of my passions together and gives me an outlet for experimentation and learning.

Every season, I use my backyard garden as a testing ground for different varieties of fruits & veggies that I grow from seed. My goal is to see how well they perform against each other, with the ultimate goal of finding a handful of crops that will produce reliably in my specific hardiness zone. When I first started, I created a spreadsheet to track everything. However, it quickly became a mess due to my love for variety. I couldn't maintain a live map with so many things changing at once. There was no tidy way to log all of my harvests. I also tend to purchase more seeds than I can reasonably use in a single season, or forget that I already have a certain variety on hand- whoops!

I started building plannt.ca (an interactive garden planning tool) in June 2022, mainly just for myself. It has come a long way since then, so I decided to put it out there in case others need this solution as well.

I am excited to announce that I have now launched plannt.ca just in time for the North American growing season! Take a look at our demo video if you're interested to see what plannt.ca can do for you.

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