crop rotation? intercropping?

[milahu]

hey there

im looking for an app that can produce a full garden design
including crop rotation (four years cycle, strong-middle-weak-zero)
and intercropping (mixed cultivation, plant symbiosis)
based on my usda hardiness zone and/or my climate profile
(annual trends of temperature and rainfall)

at first sight, this projects only can tell me how to grow one crop
("1. Choose a Crop 2. Find a Guide 3. Grow!") ... right?

i guess that "real farmers" do this with knowledge+pen+paper
but this could be a learning game for novice farmers to learn about plants

related

• ROTOR: organic crop rotation planner (closed source) (only for large scale?)
• https://exnil.github.io/crop_planner/ (too simple?)
• Crop planning and management in organic agriculture
• Planning & Plotting Your Market (or Backyard) Garden

commercial

• Micro-Farm Planner for 20 eur/month
• Crop and Seed Planning component for 1.80 eur/month

[jonahtabb]

Did you ever find a tool that does this? 🤔I am long-time organic farmer, turned software developer. Sounds like an interesting idea. My favorite tool for crop planning is tend.ag, but it still requires you to know a large amount of information yourself. It sounds like you are talking about a tool that takes some inputs and just spits out a suggested rotation and plan.

[milahu]

Did you ever find a tool that does this?

nope, sorry.

i guess that some commercial tools have this feature,
but i think its a bad idea to depend on such centralized providers...

but then, in the worst case,
we will anyway go back to knowledge+pen+paper ("amish style")