Permapeople's plant data is open and crowdsourced by the community, with a developer API and an open license. The garden planner is free to use with no lock-in. If you care about open data — not being trapped behind a proprietary database — this is the planner for you.
The plant database behind the planner is maintained by the community and shared under an open license. Thousands of plant profiles — growing conditions, edibility, companions — that anyone can use and improve.
Developers can build on Permapeople through our API and developer docs. Query plants, integrate the data into your own projects, and treat the database as open infrastructure rather than a walled garden.
Your plans are yours. Keep them private or share them publicly — there's no paywall gating your own work, and the open data means you're never trapped. Prefer the plain "free" angle? See the free garden planner.
Yes. The plant database is crowdsourced and shared under an open license, and there's a public developer API to build on it.
Yes. You can access plant data through our developer API — see the API and developer docs for details.
No. The planner is free to use, with no paywall and no ads.