About

Broadfork is a garden planner. It holds what you would otherwise have to keep in your head.

The name

A broadfork loosens ground without turning it over. It opens what is already there so air, water and roots can get in, and leaves the structure of the soil intact. A spade starts over. A broadfork works with the bed you have.

The app treats a season the same way: next year starts from what this year taught it, not from a blank page. A broadfork is also a tool that many of the gardeners Broadfork is for already own.

Who made it

Growing food well is old knowledge. It got handed down, and it goes when the people holding it go. Broadfork was built by someone who learned to grow food the old way, from grandparents who lived through the Depression, and who works in data now. Standing between those two is the point: the first is how you know what is worth keeping, and the second is how you build something that keeps it.

Broadfork has been used on a real garden every week since building began.

What it is today

Broadfork is a garden planner built for a computer screen first. A phone version that fits the screen is being built. What Broadfork does today is on Features, and what is being built and planned is on the roadmap.

How this was built

Broadfork was built with AI assistance. The person who built it works in data rather than in software, and gardens.

That is said here on purpose, because it matters. The AI got gardening wrong, repeatedly. It was caught every time, because the person building it grows the crops it was making claims about, and because nothing was allowed in on a model's say-so.

Every date and spacing in Broadfork traces back to published research rather than to a model, and when the app raises something with you it shows you the source. Showing the source is not a feature bolted on afterwards. It is the reason the tool is worth anything.

Write to support@broadfork.app.