WIP: A graphical tool for designing and planning gardens, farms, and landscapes.

Currently do no have time to work on this, but created this repository as a "manifesto" for my intent to follow through with seeing this done in a few years.

• Stage 1 (Linux native GUI, because linux is what I use, and it's free and accessible to many)
  • Draw area
    • Grow beds, fields, trees, orchards, paths, lawns, fences, buildings, and other landscape features
  • Crop/Plant rotations
    • Recommended seeding/platning/harvesting schedules for gardens or farms
    • Input costs (fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, etc)
    • Project revenue (paid?)
    • Allow for user to adjust timelines
      • Hardeness zone as factor?
      • Microclimate adjustments
  • Build small database of commonly used plants
    • https://pfaf.org/ ? Not small, but external project
    • Allow users to input their own cultivars
• Stage 2
  • Windows Client (maybe paid)
  • MacOS Client? (maybe paid)
• Stage 3
  • Hosted Collaboration Service (paid)
    • Backup services
    • Allow for in-app collaboration with others or multiple devices

Unorganized list of "good ideas":

• Auto-collect weather data from location
  • Average rainfall (year or month)
  • Light hours + intensity
  • Temperature
  • First + Last frost date
• Allow input of height of objects + light permability + latitude to calculate hours of sunlight on land in a certain month
  • Render shaded and light micro-climates
• Pre-render from satelite photo
  • Dimension estimation
  • Satelite vs logical overlay
  • Contour lines?
• Permaculture/Earthwork Planning:
  • Allow for depth to be input to calculate water runoff, collection, capacity
    • Extreme drought or rain scenarios?
  • Potential keypoints
  • Recommended swale lines
  • Recommended keyline lines
• Future timelapses and extrapolation:
  • Projected havest amounts
  • Landscape renders in 1,2,3,4,5 years
• Water catchment calculator
  • Roof area + monthly rain averages -> amount of rain water availability
• Animal Husbandry
  • Inclusion of animals as part of input and revenue streams
    • Nutrient cylcing as ferilizer
• Cover crop interaction with fields and grow beds
• Alternative planting methods
  • Inteplanting (multi-species planting withing same growing area, e.g. three sisters)
  • Alley planting (planting between perennials)
• Succession planting schedules
• Order-based planner (for CSAs or contract farming, paid?)
  • Given an order volume, previous growth history and risk buffer -> calcuate how much to plant
    • For CSAs, allow for succession planning
• Plant recommendations
  • Similar to https://pfaf.org/user/Default.aspx, but we can automate most of the climate parameters
• Soil Health
  • Would like to somehow quantify soil health and allow introspection. :/