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Produce Place Find your farm next door
A social network for map-based local growing

Grow food with the people next door.

Find nearby growers, offer or find yard space, start a local farm group, and coordinate the season through chat, prompts, guides, and AI planning.

Offer space List a sunny yard, side bed, patio, or containers without exposing an exact address.
Find space Bring labor, supplies, knowledge, or curiosity when you do not have enough room to grow.
Start a group Coordinate many private growing spaces as one local farm network.
Start a farm collective in your own neighborhood

A new way to feed your community and grow together

Produce Place gives home gardeners the ability to create a local food network and replace expensive grocery trips with locally-grown produce. Integrated tools for crop planning, tool gathering, and group management.

Here is how your community comes alive

Trade harvests, coordinate work, and organize the season together.

Produce Place helps neighbors turn separate yards, patios, and raised beds into a practical local network: people share what they grow, request what they need, lend tools, plan work days, and keep useful growing records.

Trade what you grow Offer extra herbs, seedlings, squash, starts, compost, or harvest shares to approved nearby members.
Coordinate the season Use group chat, prompts, requests, and standards to avoid duplicate crops and keep everyone aligned.
Share tools and support Let neighbors know who has seed trays, extra containers, watering backup, compost help, or weekend labor.
Build local growing memory Share bed records and harvest timing from your profile so the group learns without owning your private garden.
Bed PlannerExclusive to Master Grower

Your whole garden. Planned before you plant.

Lay out crops bed by bed, then keep planting dates, soil inputs, and harvest results attached to each plan. Milo can use that growing history to help plan what comes next—so every square foot gets smarter season after season.

01Build visuallyPlace crops inside each bed
02Track what happensSave inputs, planting dates, and harvests
03Plan the next seasonLet Milo learn from each bed's history
Garden Beds & Harvest LogBed A
Saved
Bed A8 × 4 ft · Full sun · Staked tomatoes ↔ East–West25 plants
NORTH 🍅Tomato 🍅 🍅 🌿Basil 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🌿 🧅Onion 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅
Milo's bed checkAssuming staked varieties: tomatoes are about 32 in. apart, basil has 14 in. of mature room, and onions are spaced 6 in. Confirm each variety label. Ask Milo →
Try the map

Preview nearby farm groups before joining

Visitors can search and view group profiles. Joining, messaging, and applications require a paid membership.

Baskets of backyard produce ready to trade Why it is different

Not a standard community garden

A typical community garden centers on one shared site. This app coordinates many private spaces that remain controlled by the people who own or use them.

Bees pollinating blossoms in a backyard garden Premium planning

Advanced garden planning, AI guidance, and real human support

Master Grower unlocks interactive bed layouts and whole-garden planning, an advanced Milo AI Master Gardener, and access to participating human Master Gardeners.

Meet MiloYour AI garden guide

Garden help that learns the way you grow

Ask Milo garden questions in everyday language. Master Grower adds saved records, personalized planning, and optional human expertise.

Example conversation
My tomatoes have curled leaves after three very hot days. What should I check first?
MiloCheck soil moisture two inches down, then inspect new leaves for mites or stippling. Water deeply if the soil is dry.
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Ask naturally

Describe a pest, planting, soil, or crop question in everyday language.

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Build on your garden

Use saved bed details and history for personalized planning in Master Grower.

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Add human perspective

Request guidance from participating Master Gardeners when you want another set of eyes.

Credits: Routine questions use fewer; advanced plans use more. Included credits refresh monthly.

Membership plans

Choose how you want to participate

Free

Explore Produce Place

$0forever

Create your profile and see what is growing in your community.

  • Create a public growing profile
  • Browse public farm groups
  • Post photos and updates to the public feed
  • Comment, react, and join public conversations
Grower

Grow and coordinate

$2.99/month

Move from public participation into coordinated neighborhood growing.

  • Everything in Free
  • Join, start, and manage a farm group
  • Offer or find garden space
  • Keep basic crop, planting, and harvest records
  • General Milo help with 25 monthly credits
Master GrowerBest value

Plan with confidence

$4.99/month

Design and manage your garden with advanced planning, AI guidance, and real human support.

  • Everything in Grower
  • Interactive bed layouts, advanced tracking, and whole-garden planning
  • Advanced Milo AI Master Gardener with 150 monthly credits
  • Participating human Master Gardeners, guides, and local savings

Paid plans autorenew monthly or annually and can be cancelled at any time.

Community Builder

Resident access for associations, HOAs, nonprofits, and municipalities

Associations, HOAs, nonprofits, and municipalities can sponsor access so residents begin with useful local density. It is a secondary path, but a powerful one for community outreach.

Grow the community

Help more neighborhoods grow food together.

Support Produce Place as we reach more growers, strengthen local connections, and expand community-scale food generation—one neighborhood at a time.

One-time contribution · Not tax-deductible
Meet Milo, the Produce Place AI garden guide

Ask a garden question. Build a plan. Keep learning all season.

Milo turns everyday questions and your saved garden details into practical next steps. Start with straightforward help in Grower, then unlock personalized bed and whole-garden planning in Master Grower.

Hi, I’m Milo.Tell me what you are growing—or what is going wrong—and we will work through it together.
Can you help me decide what belongs in my sunny 4 × 8 bed?
Absolutely. I’ll start with your goals, timing, and saved garden details, then help you build a focused plan.
Five ways to use Milo

More than a generic gardening chatbot

Each example below shows the kind of conversation Milo can support. The conversations are illustrations, but the features and tier differences reflect how Milo is designed to work inside Produce Place.

MiloAI garden guide

My basil keeps flowering before I get much to harvest. What should I do?

Pinch flower buds as they appear and harvest just above a leaf pair. Frequent picking encourages bushier growth.

Grower + Master Grower

Get a useful answer without translating your question

Ask naturally about planting, soil, watering, pests, timing, harvests, or crop choices. Milo gives clear actions and can handle follow-up questions.

MiloAI garden guide

My kale has small holes, but I don’t see bugs. How do I narrow it down?

Check leaf undersides and center growth early in the morning. Caterpillars suggest cabbage worms; pin-sized holes may point to flea beetles.

Grower + Master Grower

Troubleshoot one observation at a time

Milo helps narrow likely causes, identify useful evidence, and choose a sensible next step without jumping to the strongest treatment.

MiloAI garden guide

What can I plant now in Denver if I want something to harvest soon?

For a quick cool-season harvest, try radishes, baby greens, arugula, or leaf lettuce. Let’s also check your forecast and sunlight.

Grower + Master Grower

Turn broad timing questions into a short planting list

Milo considers season, climate, sunlight, available time, and harvest goals so the advice fits the decision you are making.

MiloPlanning with saved records

Use my saved 4 × 8 bed to build a tomato-focused plan for trading with my group.

Your bed is full sun with north on the long edge. Put tomatoes on the north side, basil along the front, and leave room for airflow.

Master Grower

Plan from the garden details you already saved

Master Grower lets Milo build on bed dimensions, sunlight, orientation, crops, and growing records instead of starting from a blank slate.

MiloWhole-garden planning

Compare all three beds and help me avoid planting too much zucchini again.

One zucchini plant should meet your goal. Use the extra sunny space for your group’s missing peppers—or request a local Master Gardener’s perspective.

Master Grower

See the whole garden—and add a human perspective

Milo compares saved beds and growing goals. Master Grower can also connect you with participating real Master Gardeners for local context.

Ready to grow with Milo?

Choose the level of garden help that fits you.

Grower includes practical AI-assisted help and 25 monthly Milo credits. Master Grower includes 150 monthly credits plus personalized bed and whole-garden planning.

About Produce Place

Food tastes different when you know where it came from.

Produce Place grew from a simple belief: neighborhoods already have the land, talent, curiosity, and goodwill to grow more food together. They just need a better way to find one another and coordinate.

Family roots Paige + family
About Paige

Growing food is also about staying connected.

Paige is building Produce Place from a family belief that gardens are good for people across generations. The heart of this idea is not just produce. It is children learning where food comes from, parents and grandparents passing down practical knowledge, and neighbors feeling less isolated in a modern world that often keeps everyone indoors and apart.

Hands harvesting vegetables from a raised garden bed
The roots

A family garden idea, scaled to a neighborhood

The idea comes from years of seeing how gardening changes daily life. My mother has always been deeply into gardening, and I learned early that growing food does more than fill a basket. It pulls people outside, slows them down, connects them to the season, and makes dinner feel earned.

Backyard harvest baskets arranged on a table for trading
Why now

Produce has become painfully expensive

Fresh produce prices keep climbing, and too much of what reaches the store has traveled hundreds or even thousands of miles. A few coordinated yards cannot replace the food system, but they can give neighbors better food, useful savings, and a local backup for everyday staples.

Bees pollinating flowers in a vegetable garden
Local impact

Better for bodies, minds, communities, and pollinators

Growing locally means more people know what went into their food, with less dependence on waxed, heavily transported, pesticide-treated produce. It supports mental health, neighborhood connection, healthier soil, fewer long-distance supply chains, and more habitat for bees and other pollinators.

Neighbors using a phone together to coordinate a garden group
The app

A social network for distributed yard farms

This is not a traditional community garden. It is a framework for many private spaces to work together: one person grows tomatoes and peppers, another grows squash, another offers herbs, another shares space, tools, or watering help. The app gives that network a map, profiles, group coordination, and trust.

Account access

Sign in to Produce Place

Return to your member profile, garden records, groups, Milo conversations, or account settings.

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Check your email to finish signing up

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Email confirmed

Thank you—your email is confirmed

Your Produce Place account is ready. Log in with the email address and password you created during signup.

Account security

Create a new password

Choose a new password for your Produce Place account. It must contain at least eight characters.

Your growing identity

Show neighbors how you grow, what you need, and what you can share.

Profiles combine social connection with practical growing details so group organizers can understand fit before anyone shares private yard information.

Profile

Growing profile

Add the social and growing details neighbors need before requesting groups, trades, or shared space.

Community profile

Add a banner that represents your garden or growing style
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC · 8 MB max

Garden Photos

Use this for garden beds, crops, seedlings, harvests, compost setup, tool storage, or available growing space.

Growing and trade interests

Growing preferences
Experience level

Space access

Grower and Master Grower members can offer space or look for a place to grow. Members make arrangements directly with each other.

Grower feature: Upgrade to list or pursue garden-space arrangements.

Members arrange yard access, rental terms, schedules, safety expectations, and payment directly with each other.

Garden Beds & Harvest Log

Track each bed like a growing record, not just a sketch.

Keep bed layout, soil inputs, watering, planting outcomes, and harvest notes attached to your profile so the records travel with you between groups.

My records

Bed records

At a glance

Saved bed summary

Garden Bed Record

Add New Bed

Draw the bed to scale, place each plant where it belongs, and keep its growing history attached to your account.

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Save the bedName it and enter its dimensions first.
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Add plantsAfter the bed is saved, choose crops from the list.
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Arrange the bedPress and drag each crop circle to the desired location.
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Save changesYour plant details and positions stay with this bed.
Orientation
Drag-and-drop designer

Place each plant in your bed

Click a crop to add it. Then press and drag its circle anywhere inside the bed. Click a circle without moving it to edit its details.

0 plants
North
8 ft 4 ft

Move plants: press and hold a crop circle, drag it to the desired location, then release. Circle size represents the plant's mature spacing diameter.

Plant details

Add a plant
Sun timing
Sun exposure
Master Grower · cutting-edge AI planning

Customized planning for this bed—and your whole garden

Master Grower lets Milo use your dimensions and saved records for bed-aware recommendations and whole-garden tracking. Grower provides simplified AI-assisted help for general gardening questions.

Milo's spacing and crop-fit guidance is a planning aid. Always check the variety label or seed packet before planting.

Community Feed

Share progress, ask questions, and learn from nearby growers.

A lightweight social layer for garden tips, harvest photos, pest questions, space updates, and farm group coordination.

Create a postShare something with your growing community
Recent postsNewest first
Start a group

New farm group criteria

Create the operating profile for a distributed yard farm group. After saving, share its invitation link so neighbors can open the group on the map and request to join.

Special requirements
West Highlands Yard Farm Within 1 mile · Organic Only · Beginner-friendly

Needs herbs, compost help, squash interest, watering backup.

Group details

Highlands Garden Group

Review the group before applying. Members can belong to one farm group at a time.

Members MayaGrows, AndreP, LenaB
Growing Tomatoes, peppers, herbs
Looking for Compost help, squash
Requirements Organic Only, Beginner-friendly

Trade standards

Members agree to label organic inputs, share harvest quantities honestly, and discuss barter expectations before exchanges.

Secure checkout

Complete membership payment

Paid memberships unlock group requests, chat, and premium access before profile setup.

Grower $2.99 monthly

Payment details are entered on Stripe's secure checkout page and are never stored by Produce Place.
Map-based discovery

Find nearby growers and open farm groups without exposing exact yards.

Search by address area, distance, group status, space availability, and growing preferences.

Map search

Find growers, groups, and space

Space
Growing preferences
Approximate result locations Blue: farm groups · Red: space for rent · Yellow: visible individual members.

Best matches

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Farm Groups

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Space for Rent

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Shared farm group account

Coordinate many private spaces as one neighborhood-scale farm.

Members can manage chat, tools, shared harvest snapshots, photos, standards, and membership decisions in one shared workspace.

Highlands Garden Group

Group chat

Notifications

Track group applications, organizer decisions, and member requests.

Applicants can see where their request stands. Organizers can see what needs review before a new member joins.

Inbox

Recent notifications

Milo gardening desk

Get practical answers now—and unlock a complete garden-planning partner when you are ready.

Grower includes Milo for general gardening questions. Master Grower adds saved-bed guidance, interactive layouts, advanced tracking and whole-garden planning, plus access to participating human Master Gardeners.

Milo gardening advisor

Milo, your dedicated growing advisor

Grower: general advice Master: advanced AI Master: saved-bed aware Master: human experts
Milo Ask me for practical growing advice, pest triage, soil ideas, crop timing, or harvest questions. Master Grower also lets me use your saved bed records for layouts and whole-garden planning—and lets you request a participating human Master Gardener.
Try asking:
Typical Milo credit costs
Milo helpCreditsExample
Routine answer1Plant timing, soil, pest, watering, or crop question
Follow-up answer1Clarify or adjust Milo's previous recommendation
Advanced bed plan5Crop quantities, spacing, placement, and bed allocation
Whole-garden plan5Production focus, crop rotation, or coordinated bed strategy
Keep planning with Milo

Buy additional credits

Use them for extra questions or advanced garden plans after your monthly credits run out. Added credits do not expire.

Secure credit purchasing will appear here when available.

Sponsor directory

Businesses and organizations helping neighborhoods grow.

Public sponsor profiles are broad-market advertising placements for nurseries, soil suppliers, educators, tool shops, and community-aligned brands.

Sponsor signup

Choose how your business shows up for local growers.

Select a directory profile, local advertising package, or market-level sponsorship. All advertiser levels require a minimum 6 month commitment.

Advertising packages

Sponsor and advertising options

Each advertising package includes a minimum 6 month commitment. Choose a package, create an advertiser account, and pay to open the advertiser dashboard.

Advertiser dashboard

Manage your sponsor profile, offers, and ad creative.

After payment, advertisers can complete their public profile, upload logos, manage Local Offers, and submit banner creative for rotating placements.

Directory Sponsor

Advertiser account

Local offer

Member promotion

Local Advertiser and Market Sponsor accounts can create a member offer that appears in Local Offers.

Banner advertising

Ad creative uploads

Upload one image for each standard size. Approved ads rotate through the site on a random timeline based on monthly impression allocation.

Creative uploads save to the advertiser account and enter review. Approved ads rotate only while billing is active.
Wide banner ad 1200 × 260 px recommended

Appears in home, search, sponsor pages, and email banner placements.

Side-column rectangle ad 300 × 250 px recommended

Appears inside result lists, dashboard side areas, and compact content placements.

Wide banner sample Upload your 1200 × 260 ad

This placement links to your chosen web address.

Side-column sample Upload your 300 × 250 ad

Compact sponsored placement.

Placement zones

Where your ads can appear

Each package unlocks a different set of site placements. Ads rotate automatically after approval.

Monthly delivery

Impressions and clicks

Track monthly delivery, remaining impressions, click-throughs, package status, and billing timing for this advertiser account.

Admin moderation

Creative review queue

Ad images, logos, coupons, and public offers should be approved before entering live rotation.

Community Coordinator

Your community program

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Master Admin

Manage the pilot and assign trusted admin access.

The Master Admin can review operations, support members, manage community activity, and assign Content Moderator or Full Admin access to trusted users.

New requests — Community Builder, sponsor, and support requests needing review
Pending reviews — Ad creative, coupons, and public sponsor changes
Active members — Free, Grower, Master Grower, and advertiser accounts
Email notices — New lead notifications route to the site manager inbox
Admin command center

Site manager tools

Use these tabs to review incoming leads, advertiser changes, member issues, content moderation, email notification rules, and admin permissions.

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Community Builder leads

Requests that need follow-up

Community Builder operations

Create and manage organization-sponsored access

Set the seats, funding arrangement, eligibility method, and billing terms. Produce Place creates controlled invitations instead of public discount codes.

Sponsor and advertiser review

Approve public-facing sponsor content

Master Admin only

Create a complimentary Master Grower

Create a real, permanent premium account that does not require payment. It receives no admin or moderation privileges.

No payment

The account is confirmed immediately and appears below after creation. Share the login privately and ask the member to change the temporary password.

Accounts

Member and account oversight

Master Admin only

Administrative access

Grant Content Moderator or Full Admin authority to a trusted member profile.

Master Admin
Role levels Content Moderators can moderate community content and finalize Knowledgebase articles. Full Admins can also manage operational areas. Only the Master Admin can grant or remove these roles.
Community safety

Posts, comments, and photos to review

This queue is for keeping the community feed constructive: approve normal posts, hide inappropriate content, and flag items that need follow-up.

Member flags

Final editorial review

Knowledgebase Submissions

Review community-endorsed articles, unresolved revision requests, categories, and peer comments before publishing or returning an article to its author.

Admin or Moderator
Email notifications

Route important site activity to the right inbox

Notification routing
These addresses receive the operational notifications selected above after the settings are saved.
AI cost controls

Milo usage and estimated monthly cost

Review question volume, advanced plans, model routing, and the members using the most allowance.

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Admin controls

Account type, data review, and launch settings

Read-only public profile preview
No member selected. Return to Members and choose a name or View Profile.
Dashboard offers

Local discounts matched to your verified growing area.

After signup, partner offers are prioritized by map area, membership tier, and the stores closest to your farm group.

Member offers

Local offers near your growing area

Master Grower members can unlock discounts from nearby nurseries, soil suppliers, tool shops, educators, and food partners.

Community Builder

Help your neighborhood grow food together.

Community Builder is for HOAs, neighborhood associations, schools, employers, nonprofits, and city programs that want to give residents a practical way to find growers, share space, and organize local food production.

Program overview

A launch path for a whole community, not one household at a time.

Produce Place works best when enough people in the same area can see one another, offer space, form farm groups, coordinate crops, and share what they grow.

Community Builder packages help an organization sponsor that first wave of participation. Together, we define the neighborhood or service area, choose how residents will access Produce Place, and create a practical local invitation and launch plan. We also help your team understand participation, new growing groups, shared spaces, harvest activity, and community stories as the network takes shape.

The result is a program that can strengthen neighborhood relationships, put more local space to productive use, and give residents a meaningful way to participate in the health and resilience of their community—without requiring your organization to operate the growing network by hand.

Neighborhood associations HOAs and resident groups Municipal outreach teams Food resilience nonprofits Public health programs Local employers
Choose a starting point

Three practical ways to build a stronger local growing community.

Choose the approach closest to your goal. These are flexible starting points for a custom estimate based on the number of residents, the access level, and the amount of launch support you need.

Neighborhood Activation

Best for a neighborhood, HOA, or association that wants residents to discover one another and begin forming growing groups.

  • Defined map area or member list
  • Resident invite code
  • Launch copy for email, flyers, and newsletters
Sponsored Access

Best for an organization that wants to pay for or subsidize Grower or Master Grower access for its people.

  • Sponsored member access
  • Resident discount or full-access codes
  • Basic participation reporting
Civic / Employer Launch

Best for city programs, employers, schools, nonprofits, or public health teams working across a larger population.

  • Multi-area launch planning
  • Local partner and sponsor coordination
  • Impact stories and participation review
Request an estimate

Tell us what kind of community you want to activate.

You do not need to know the perfect package yet. Share the basics and we will follow up with practical options, estimated cost, and a recommended launch path.