Our Goal
Helping People Feed Themselves
Support in Growing Your Own Food
Rational Gardening gives you the support necessary to plan, plant, and maintain productive food gardens. We create apps that form an integrated system catered to your individual goals and garden space.
We assist you every step of the way, from planting your first tomato to making dinner with what you’ve grown. Garden Advisor lets you know how local conditions impact your garden, while our upcoming My Garden app will help users with detailed planning and management support.
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The Struggles are Real
Conflicting Information
Fragmented and inconsistent gardening advice exists everywhere. It can be difficult to piece together relevant information.
Planning
Planning your garden can spiral into a complicated mess. It’s hard to set it all up by yourself if you’ve never done this before.
Finding Connection
It’s hard to know what resources are in your area. How do you know if there’s a canning class nearby, or an arborist to help trim your trees?
Detail Overload
So many things to take into account. Do you have the right kind of soil? How much to water? It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the details.
Preventative Care
Treating issues when they appear might be too late. Unless you’re an expert, preventative care can be a guessing game.
Knowing What to Know
Every garden is different. Your care routine should be catered for your situation and needs.
Garden Support in One Place
Meet the Garden Advisor
The Garden Advisor is our debut app for gardening help. Garden advisor provides daily conditions, assistance, and weather forecast specific to your garden.
Select your garden’s location and the plants you currently have. The app will pull meteorological, soil, planting zone, and other data to provide notices specific to you. Unsure what to do with your plants? The Ask feature provides details on your notices and can help answer other gardening concerns, all specific to your situation.
Why Rational Gardening
Rational Gardening is about empowering individuals, families, and communities to grow their own food. We believe everyone deserves the joy of growing their own meals, no matter where they live.
We started with the wild idea of having a gardener in your pocket who could give evidence-based advice relevant to each individual. We are creating a suite of tools to make getting started, growing, and harvesting easier and more successful.
Members: Try Out our Beta Garden Advisor App
Paid RG members can try out our beta Garden Advisor app now. It provides your local forecast, soil conditions, and gardening advice catered to your selected plants and location.
Not a member?
Join a Trial Membership to get 30 days free access to Garden Advisor. No credit card needed.
Stay Connected with a Membership
Rational Gardening is building a suite of tools, including a garden planner and manager, to help with every step of the gardening process. Create an account to stay connected and try our latest products. Free and paid memberships available.
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