I don't know if you've ever heard me say the word heirloom but it's the name of a software that the
market Garder Institute has just launched it's epic it's 3 years in the making it's a really
robust and complete crop planting software and today I want to show you what it [Music] is so
heirloom is now alive wow my God this is It's 3 years in the works to create this uh project but
it's amazing it's amazing and it's going to get even better with time but just quickly to have a
first glance at it if you open uh your heirloom software the first thing that you'll see is your
dashboard and I'm not going to go over everything today but I just want to show you the quick things
and you'll see some of the insights that are built in that is really helpful already so this is uh
crop planning that I'm about 3/4 done with the Old Mill and the market Garden that we have here
for the restaurant so there's a lot of crops that are selected a lot of crops that are already uh
placed in the garden and the first thing that you see is the number of planting and the estimated
revenue and the tasks that go with that so just seeing that what's great is that every time you
plan something it comes with a trail a trail of other chores and tasks that are there and then
eventually you can have an overview of everything that's going on first thing that I see is that my
there's a spike in Revenue in August September and October which isn't that extraordinary in itself
but it's a pretty steep Spike that's my first indicator that perhaps I could kind of lower the
curve you see all my bed occupancy by month okay which is really great and then that's all the crop
distribution you see to the right so that's kind of the the first dashboard that you'll see when
you open it okay uh when you're actually doing the planting the first thing that you'll do is select
all your crops and when you select a crop let's say I'm selecting asparagus uh you'll also have
in many instances you'll have different cultivars that you can choose from okay and we're going to
be adding a lot of cultivars with time this is the beta version so we're kind of just launching it so
that people can use it and get give us feedback but that's where you'll select your crops and
eventually and then the next step is that for each crop you'll determine your sequence do I want
this crop to be planted once twice every second week every third week you know spring and fall
you decide that but then you have a visual that allows you to see when the crop is planted when
it's transplanted when it's harvested this is all kind of pre-programmed with numbers that you can
can change if you have a different different specs for your crops but that gives you a program for
all of your crops so the reason why we have this here is to make sure that everything just falls in
the right order so that you have Harvest continual harvests and that you're never having holes in the
garden so that allows you to make sure that you have again continuous supplies of many crops okay
and it's a really neat visual so let's say I click here okay so again we're with artichokes then you
have your planting dates and you can edit it you can you you you can change the cultivar you can
change the spacing uh but it's all prepopulated with the information that we have from the master
class so that's really cool uh you can decide to put it uh in in the caterpillar in the high
tunnel in the greenhouse so there's a lot of neat features with the plan then there's obviously the
row spacing just talked about it if you change the row spacing let's say change it here and I decide
to grow it on two rows which is possible with ar chokes so two rows let's say two rows every 24
um every 20 every 18 so you see the spacing here okay spacing between the rows oh that's why it did
that so that would be 10 and then I go let's say two every 20 every 28 it just changes the spacing
and then it's going to change a lot of the data that you'll have with regards to yield it's going
to automatically change you know let's say your transplant numbers according to how many beds you
want to make because you change the spacing so the fact that it's all synced really is helpful
in that way so you don't need to be looking at numbers making any mistakes and again that's
that's something that we take for granted but it's really cool that it's all integrated then you know
once you have your game plan you've selected your crop you have your program of what you're going
to be growing in sequence then you have your map and the crop map is in my opinion the best tool
here and I haven't done I haven't finished mine but what it is is that you'll have all your beds
and you see them from an narial view uh with uh space and time and space space and time space and
time so that allows you to move your crop around and decide that this planting will go there this
planting oh I'll put it here so all your crops are groups in number of beds and they all have
a start n and a finished n that you can adjust but it's it's again it's prepopulated with the
information that we have from the master class and now the work is to make sure that all the crops
that you have uh need fit in okay so you have all your plantings to the right here archs basil beads
whatever and then what you're doing is that you're putting these plantings into the garden and what
that does that's really the game Cher is that it allows you to optimize all your plantings to
find them The Sweet Spot in the garden make sure that you can grow everything and that there's a
timely fashion to everything that happens in the garden the beta version doesn't have this but the
next one coming up we'll have ai uh helping you figure out the best puzzle to maximize space in
your garden considering different uh assignments that you'll give him I want to have three years
between this crop because it's in the alium family I want to have you know before car I
want to have four weeks of uh you know tarping you can add all these variables and then it's
going to figure out uh for you what's the best configuration for your season that's going to be
really epic I'm really looking forward to that but quickly if I if I scroll down uh you know once you
have all your plantings and you've determined how many beds you'll be growing of what then the next
that automatically calculates the number of seeds that you'll be needing which saves you a lot of
time and then you can shop around with specific numbers um eventually you'll be able to order
seeds directly from it but we're not there yet but it's a great way to just make sure that you
have exactly the seeds you need not more not less and then you'll save on orders and if you're with
the Master Class A lot of the seed companies we have discounts so if you have a big volume of a
seed order you have 10 15% discount that's a great way to save money so that's exciting and then the
last uh the last part is the tasks so for all of your crops let's say you're planting basil then
it needs to be started in the nursery it needs to be it needs to be there for a certain amount
of time then it needs to be transplanted then it's going to be Harvest you might want to put
an insect net over it at one point um let's say you're growing broccolis you might want to apply
Boron every 3 weeks after the planting so all of these things they're pre-populated for each
of the crops that you grow and that gives you a weekly task lists of everything that needs to be
uh seated in the nursery everything that needs to be direct seated in the garden everything
that needs to be transplanted you have a list of to-dos for that week and that really is the
game Cher also because it allows you to just take something that's super complex breaks it down into
to-do list for the week for the day for the month and we've also added the feature that anything
that you want to uh addition to a crop let's say Boron on your broccolis it's going to go
in your to-do list okay so there's uh you have the visual for the whole list then you have a
visual of the week list and then you can move your chores around in your weekly list to to organize
your week according to weather according to you know if it's a harvest day so that's really how
to do it and that's how I've been doing it for all these years that to that feature the task
list again that's another big part of heirloom uh and then lastly you'll have a workload graph and
the workload graph is really really really handy that's something that I developed over the years
because I was always finding myself in situation where there's just too many things to do in a
given week and sometimes this can be just kind of declined either before or after and and just
that's that's a visual of I have a few weeks in in that my year that there's too many things going
on so you can change some of these plantings or you could decide to prepare in advance and hire
people for these weeks but at least you know everything that's going on according to your
plan in a weekly workload graph so that's for me that's something that's really really useful so
that's there uh in the beta version then you know what we seeing here is the map uh the
Farm map is taken from Google Map that's that's that's your farm you draw your field blocks you
draw your beds here you can create locations you can add blocks change blocks put green houses you
can really design your farm uh on on this part of the software so that's really great and then you
have your charts you have all your direct seating charts they're all there transplant charts they're
all there you know it's good that you take your numbers and put them in but you also have those
of the master class that are built in that you can you know write over if needs be Nursery
chart it's there there's a lot of information in this for all of the crops and uh there's also
crop yields so so you know obviously crop eel is very important because that's how you plan
your season so all in all it's just a complete uh it's the most complete uh software for crop
planning and we're really excited about it and I hope you'll be excited about it [Music] too
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