GrowGood

GrowGood Mycelium

Part 1: Economics of the Digital Commons

GrowGood is an ambitious open-source digital platform built to empower farmers to reorient their practice towards regenerative agriculture. We are part of a movement and a broader shift toward planetary civics grounded in what Zehra Zaidi & Indy Johar (2024) describe as two defining realities: Firstly, there is an awakening of planetary consciousness regarding the scale of planetary challenges. Groups of stakeholders have recognised that there is finite time to correct destructive pathways and have begun to experiment and generate new propositions. Secondly, in computational advancements we may finally have the tools to match the scale of planetary challenges and build bold, ambitious models of care to repair and sustain our planet which can provide new insights and ways of thinking, being, learning and self-learning.1

Funding Freedom: An Operating System for the People Growing

Building a Regenerative Economic Model for Open Source AgTech

Part 2: Building a Regenerative Economic Model for Open Source AgTech In Part 1, we painted a picture of a different kind of Agricultural Operating System—one built on trust, transparency, and technological sovereignty. A system where growers own their data, connect their own hardware, and use “glass-box” AI to gain insights, not receive orders. It’s a compelling vision. But it prompts the elephant in the paddock: if we reject the growth-at-all-costs venture capital model, how do we keep the lights on?

Breaking the Digital Fenceline: A Smarter Foundation for Farm Operations

How Open Standards and Trust are Reshaping AgTech

Part 1 - How Open Standards and Trust are Reshaping AgTech There’s a buzz in the air, a hum of servers mingling with the smell of rain on dry earth. The conversation, happening everywhere from investment boardrooms to the local pub, is about the “Agricultural Operating System”—the Ag OS. It’s a slick vision, often painted by venture capital, of an AI-driven, seamlessly integrated technological revolution that will finally “solve” the farm.

Doughnut Economics and GrowGood

Aligning Farm Management with a Thriving Planet

Introduction Kate Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics” presents a compelling model for 21st-century prosperity, one that rejects the endless pursuit of GDP growth in favour of a more balanced goal. The “Doughnut” itself is a visual framework representing a safe and just space for humanity. It consists of two concentric rings: The Social Foundation (Inner Ring): This outlines the basic standards of living—such as food, water, housing, and political voice—that no one should fall below. The Ecological Ceiling (Outer Ring): This represents the nine planetary boundaries, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, that humanity must not overshoot to protect Earth’s life-support systems. The goal is to operate within the Doughnut’s green ring: the space where we can meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet.

A New Future for Farming: How GrowGood Measures What Matters

How open data and ValueFlows are cultivating collaboration, sustainability, and fair economies

The sun is rising over Barb’s market garden as she plans the day’s work. With a cup of coffee in hand, she knows today’s harvest is more than just fresh produce. It’s about getting good food to local families, improving the soil for next year’s crops, and building a business that will last. This isn’t just a romantic ideal; it’s the future GrowGood is being designed to help build, one where every action on the farm contributes to a verifiable, transparent, and fair economic and ecological story.

GrowGood's Greenprint - Our Technical Journey with Valueflows and REA Accounting

From Jupyter sketches to Flutter dreams: Navigating the complexities of building a regenerative AgTech platform

G’day! Ever wonder what it takes to build software that truly understands a farm? Not just the profits and losses, but the health of the soil, the value of shared work, and the intricate dance of a regenerative ecosystem? That’s the challenge we’re tackling at GrowGood. Our journey to build a transparent, open-source AgTech platform has led us down a fascinating technical path, guided by the robust principles of Valueflows and Resource-Event-Agent (REA) accounting.