Today, on April 21st, 2025, we shut down the OpenFarm servers after being online for a little more than 10 years. The codebase was no longer being maintained and the server infrastructure it was running on was set to no...
Yesterday we released a new version of the FarmBot web app. Here’s what’s new: New crop search The FarmBot web app no longer uses OpenFarm to power it’s crop search. While OpenFarm has served us well since the early days of FarmBot,...
So what can you grow with these machines anyways? FarmBot is best suited to growing a polycrop of many common garden veggies at the same time. Think: carrots, onions, leafy greens, fresh herbs, squash, tomatoes, peppers, and more. But you're not limited...
This post was originally written on the OpenFarm Blog. In this post I'm going review the entire process of creating and running the successful OpenFarm Kickstarter campaign. I'll cover what worked, what didn't, and what we would do different if we could...
We just launched a Kickstarter campaign for OpenFarm, a free an open database for farming and gardening knowledge! OpenFarm came out of the need for FarmBot to access structured, detailed data for how to grow a plant in a specific environment with specific growing practices....
