# openfarmcc/OpenFarm

A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. You can grow anything!

Repository: https://github.com/openfarmcc/OpenFarm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openfarm
Homepage: https://OpenFarm.cc
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gardening, farming, plants, open-source, rails
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-04-22T04:31:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 17, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4693, "days_push": 498, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1731, forks 278 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:28.709052+00:00)

## What it is
OpenFarm is a free, open-source web application and database of crowd-sourced Growing Guides for farming and gardening, structured like a recipes site for plants. Its servers were shut down in April 2025 and the repository is archived and read-only.

## Use cases
- find out how to grow tomatoes or other crops
- browse crowd-sourced gardening guides with spacing, watering, and soil details
- self-host a plant knowledge database
- contribute structured growing guides for plants
- query an open API of farming knowledge

## When to choose
- you want to fork or study the codebase of a community-driven plant knowledge platform
- you need seed data or content structure for building your own gardening database
- you want a historical reference for a similar 'Wikipedia for plants' project

## When to avoid
- you need a live service or maintained API - the servers were shut down in April 2025
- you need security updates or bug fixes - the project is archived and unmaintained
- you want a production-ready gardening app without investing in revival work

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: database, search-engine, web-framework
- domain: agriculture, education, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: gardening, farming, growing-guides, crowdsourced-knowledge, rails, shut-down, archived, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- openfarmcc/OpenFarm (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.709052+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:31:43.476422+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/openfarmcc/OpenFarm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:28.709052+00:00, sha 3b93b9006065)
  - homepage: https://OpenFarm.cc (fetched 2026-08-29T11:08:30.540184+00:00, sha 666e0e801fea)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.