A Django-powered plant database and design tool for gardeners, farmers, orchadists, and anyone else interested in planting something! 🌿
- Plant database with detailed information ℹ️
- Custom tagging 🏷️
- Image management with iNaturalist integration 📸
- LLM generated plant descriptions with user input ⌨️
- Create a user profile or authenticate with Google to leave comments 💬
- Filter and search to find plants 🔎
- Germination and growing information -- guides to start your own plants from seed!
- Wiki photos and descriptions -- allow users to upload their own photos and edit plant descriptions
- LLM summary of user comments -- like Amazon reviews, create short LLM summaries of user experience with plant. Switch to open source LLM.
- Emoji-based plant tags. Custom django-taggit implementation
- Add plants to lists -- Favorites, My_Garden, Native_Wetland_Wildflowers, Client_Prairie_Design
- Drag and drop UI using saved lists. 2-D overhead view.
- Mobile integration (iOS because it's what I know) to create maps of real field plantings. Mark plant locations and create map and data using mobile devices (iPhone and Apple Watch first)
- Dashboards visualizing crowd-sourced planting data. Growth rates, survival, nut/fruit production, etc.
- Crowd-sourced restoration data!
- Crowd-sourced restorative agricultural / permaculture data!
# Create virtual environment
python -m venv myenv
source myenv/bin/activate # or `myenv\Scripts\activate` on Windows
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Add openai api key if you want to generate plant descriptions
create .env file and add OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key to file
# Run migrations
python manage.py migrate
# Import plant data using just 8 example plants for now
python manage.py import_plants path/to/plants_8.json
# Run server
python manage.py runserverPlant images are sourced from iNaturalist's public API. See plants/utils/inaturalist_image_api.py
Plant descriptions are generated with openai's api. See plants/utils/gen_plant_info.py
Created by Nigel Wright
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