Welcome to Botany Buddy
Botany Buddy is a Growing Community.
There really is no better way to describe it. It all started with three people scattered between the Pacific Northwest, the Southern Appalachians, and the heart of Texas. All of them held crucial pieces of the puzzle, and held one main core value in common. That core value is that without communication, education, and interaction, information is worthless, but all together, they have the potential to change an industry, and change the world one garden at a time. Millions of people around the world are trying to live with nature, create their own spaces, and feed their families in the first industry known to man, and one of the largest in the world…growing.
In today’s changing world the sources of information are limitless. From Bloggers, to print, all kinds of media, and old fashioned garden clubs information is passed and absorbed in more forms than ever and at faster speeds. To stay on top of it all you have to be in more places and have more tools than one can possibly keep up with. By the time you do get information by buying a book or CD ROM, it is usually outdated when a new variety of plant has been released or a more effective method of caring for it has been found. Sometimes it seems as though the resources in our libraries change as often as the vegetable in our gardens.
When Botany Buddy first came about, I was approached to help design and build a mobile application for gardeners. That app was the Tree and Shrub Finder. Having been a gardener my whole life and designing landscapes for almost twenty years, I was fully aware of the needs and opportunities for home gardeners and professionals alike. I also new that the greatest gift of gardening besides being connected with nature was being connected with other gardeners. I have always been a book hound when it came to gardening, but the greatest lessons I have learned in gardening have come from the generations of gardeners before me. Sometimes those lessons came from mentors, some from my customers, and sometimes they were from the guy selling produce on the side of the road. No matter where those lessons came from the greatest impact on me has been from the gardening community as a whole.
That is why when Botany Buddy was created I wanted it to be more than a tool you kept in your pocket, but something that allowed people to connect to the gardening community as a whole. One of the greatest challenges we face as gardeners is not having enough time to share with each other, or the expense of trying to do so. As a designer nothing was more rewarding than the one on one time I could spend teaching and learning with my clients. Nothing was more frustrating than trying to get information to them when I left. In so many ways technology has brought the world closer together, but driven us apart as individuals. That is why Botany Buddy was designed not just to be something you keep in your pocket, but something to bring us all together.
Welcome to our Growing Community
