Libre Grow

Grow Better, Together

Your garden remembers everything — every activity, every seed, every harvest. Libre Grow builds a provenance chain from soil to plate, so you can see what actually works, season after season, and share what you learn with growers around you.

Open source. Free to use. Your data stays yours.

Every Action Recorded

Planting, composting, watering, harvesting — log what you do and when, so you never rely on memory alone.

Learn What Actually Works

Compare varieties, soil amendments, and techniques across seasons — yours and the community's — to find what thrives in your conditions.

Share and Grow Together

Contribute your observations to a shared knowledge commons. The more gardens that record, the smarter the whole community gets.

What You Can Do

Record Your Growing Journey

Keep a structured garden journal — what you planted, what you did, what happened. Track every bed, every crop, every season in one place.

Follow Proven Methods

Browse step-by-step protocols for composting, soil testing, seed saving, and more. Adapt them for your site and share improvements back.

Save and Share Seeds

Track seed lots from harvest to next season. Record germination rates, provenance, and growing notes. Share seeds with your community.

Track Soil Health

Log pH tests, amendments, compost applications, and organic matter over time. Watch your soil improve season by season with real data.

Learn From Every Garden

See how varieties and methods perform across different climates, soils, and conditions. Collective intelligence from real growers, not just textbooks.

Join a Growing Community

Ask questions, share harvests, discuss methods, and learn from experienced growers. Permaculture is better when we do it together.

How It Works

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Record

Log what you plant, what you do, and what happens. Soil tests, planting dates, harvests, observations — all in one place.

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Compare

See how your varieties and methods perform over time. Compare across seasons, beds, and growing conditions.

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Learn

Discover what works in your climate, soil, and conditions — from your own records and the wider community's experience.

This Is Not Another Online Course

Do, Don't Just Watch

Our free 4-week course doesn't ask you to watch videos. Each week has a hands-on assignment that creates real data in your real garden — a site assessment, a soil test, a planting. You finish with a garden record, not just a certificate.

Your Context, Not Theirs

Globalised courses teach techniques from someone else's climate. Libre Grow records what works in your soil, your conditions, your microclimate. Over time, you and your neighbours build local knowledge that no textbook can provide.

Proof Is in the Provenance

Every seed traces back to its source. Every harvest links to the soil test, the compost, the planting. Your garden's full story is visible, shareable, and comparable — not locked in a paper notebook or lost in a Facebook feed.

Your Garden, Your Records, Your Improvement

  • Free garden journal — log planting, composting, watering, and harvesting
  • Track what's in each bed across seasons — no more forgetting what you planted where
  • Step-by-step protocols for soil testing, composting, seed saving, and more
  • Soil health records — watch your pH, organic matter, and amendments over time
  • Compare how different varieties perform in your conditions across seasons
  • Free video courses to improve your growing skills

Community at a Glance

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Every Garden Is a Research Site

For too long, growing knowledge has lived in individual gardens, individual memories, and individual conversations. When an experienced grower leaves a community garden, their knowledge leaves too. When a beginner makes a mistake, they're repeating what a thousand others have already learned.

Libre Grow turns private learning into shared knowledge — without losing the site-specific, hands-on character that makes regenerative growing powerful. The platform is digital, but every activity happens in your actual garden, with your actual soil, in your actual climate.

Together, we're building collective intelligence from real observations — place by place, season by season. Your garden contributes to something bigger.