GrowGood

Rewilding the Field

GrowGood as a Digital Commons

There are paddocks in Western Australia’s wheatbelt — tens of thousands of hectares — where the soil crusts white in summer. Salt. The farmers who cleared the mallee scrub for “improved” pasture in the mid-20th century didn’t intend disaster. The short-term arithmetic made sense: clear the deep-rooted native vegetation, plant shallow-rooted annual crops, harvest, repeat. For a generation, it worked. Then the watertable rose. Without the native root systems drawing it down, the groundwater — laden with salt from ancient seabeds — climbed toward the surface. It poisoned paddocks. It killed trees. It sterilised soils that had grown native plants for millennia. Roughly two million hectares of Australian farmland carry this legacy. Not from malice. From simplification.

Logos & GrowGood: Community Owned Economies

Guest Podcast with Host Sterlin Lujan

Introduction What does a post-capitalist economy look like, and where does value actually live? In this deep-dive session from the Logos Thursday X Space, heterodox economist and monetary theorist Leanne Ussher joins host Sterlin Lujan to explore the frontier of community-owned economies. The conversation traces a fascinating lineage of economic experimentation—from the Wörgl “miracle” during the Great Depression and the Sardex network in Sardinia to modern-day implementations like Will Ruddick’s Sarafu currency in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. Moving beyond theoretical frameworks, this discussion focuses on practical applications: mapping material, ecological, and human flows to reclaim value that mainstream economics is built to ignore.

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.