GardenKnowm

Seventieth & Smith

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About this app

GardenKnowm is a local-first homestead management app for gardeners, beekeepers, poultry keepers, and small-scale livestock owners. Everything you record — plants, hives, flocks, animals, soil tests, journal entries, photos — stays in a database on your own device. No account to create, no cloud backend, no subscription.

WHY LOCAL-FIRST
Most homestead apps are subscription clouds that lock your data behind their servers and charge you monthly. GardenKnowm is the opposite: your records live on your phone, in a standard SQLite database you can export any time. There's no server to breach, no account to hack, no subscription to forget you're paying for.

WHAT YOU CAN TRACK
• Plants — annual planning with frost-relative scheduling, spring and fall planting windows, variety-level tracking, year-over-year performance ratings, photo-based plant ID
• Bees — multi-hive tracking, structured inspections, queen lineage, honey harvests with brix/moisture/color, treatment history
• Poultry — per-flock or per-bird egg logging, bulk-add for hatchery batches, adaptive feed reminders
• Livestock — goats, sheep, pigs, cattle, rabbits, and more, with kind-specific vocabulary and USDA-aware tag fields
• Compost — per-method reminder cadence, hot-pile temperature tracking
• Soil tests — lab-agnostic quick or advanced mode, drives fertilizer recommendations

SMART GUIDANCE, REAL AGRONOMY
• Irrigation advisor factoring in evapotranspiration, soil type, and mulch depth — not just "more or less water," but specific frequency and duration
• Heat, freeze, and frost alerts tied to your local forecast, with push notifications for time-critical events
• Pest alerts cross-referencing iNaturalist observations against the crops you're growing
• Yard biodiversity scoring that folds in both what you've planted and what wildlife iNaturalist users have observed nearby
• Recommendations cite real sources — NC State Extension, FAO-56 Penman-Monteith ET₀, USDA hardiness zones, NCDA&CS soil-test frameworks

YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE
Export your full database to a JSON backup any time, or sync directly between your own devices over your local network — no cloud in the middle. Optional integrations (AI assistant, weather stations, plant identification) use API keys you provide and pay for directly; if you don't add a key, the feature is simply invisible.

FREE, WITH AN HONEST UPGRADE
The free version includes every core feature and shows ads. GardenKnowm Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription, ever — that removes ads and usage tracking entirely, and unlocks breeding-stock comparison, genetics analysis, and PDF inspection reports.

WHAT IT'S NOT
GardenKnowm isn't a commercial farm platform (no sales/inventory/labor tracking), isn't a social network, and isn't a plant-identification camera app on its own (it integrates with Pl@ntNet and iNaturalist for that). It's built for home gardeners and homesteaders alike — whether you're growing your first tomato bed or already running a working homestead with bees, poultry, and livestock.