I’ve been gardening for years and every app I tried felt like it was made by someone who's never pulled a weed. So I built my own.
PatternBase is a garden design tool for permaculture people — guild planting, climate matching, multi-year planning. The stuff nobody else bothers with because it's not sexy enough for Silicon Valley.
No investors. No ads. I don't sell your data. Accepts bitcoin through BTCPay because I'm not going to preach sovereignty and then make Stripe the only option.
25% of what the platform earns goes into an Earth Care Fund — land projects, open research, community grants. Public ledger. Bitcoin treasury. It's not a campaign, it's how the business runs.
Turns out food sovereignty and financial sovereignty are the same fight.
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Building Patternbase to connect my greatest passions - regenerative agriculture, sovereignty, technology and Bitcoin ⚡️🌀 check it out!
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really interesting, bookmarked
This is amazing!
Thank! Love what you are doing too! Sending you a DM :)
Increfibly interesting. Please enable Monero in BTCPayserver as well!
Bitcoin only 🫡
Is that part of permaculture philosophy?
Cool
Awesome! Looks like a great resource. Can't wait to start planting soon
Thanks for the kind words 🌀
I highly suggest researching the work on "Pattern Language" done by Christopher Alexander. Combining his work on design of built structures, with Permaculture provides a powerful way to organize the pattern templates into a 'library'. I've come to view the combination of the home and gardens into a 'macro-biome' as the best framework for designing 'livingry systems', as Bucky Fuller envisioned as a replacement for the weaponry industrial complex.
These frameworks and ideas from our predecessors may make what you're building even more useful and easier to transmit to others.
Myself, I'm been called to work more on the home, than our gardens, but, have learned to integrate the two as much as possible. Here's my blog post on the section of the residential construction field that I've been contributing to, what I refer to as 'Bio-dome Igloos'. Decentralizing manufacturing and vocational tech training helps us achieve sovereignty over our shelters, avoiding the need for mortgages and often 'permission.
These Biodomes make great agricultural buildings, short/mid/long term ADUs, and/or green houses. This pattern has near infinite variations and allows us to 'grow' our built infrastructure over time, quite literally 'printing' customized joints as need calls for it. I'm about to enclose my 5th iteration on these patterns and will have more pics and details to share soon.
As you are, I will be operating on a strict 'Satoshi Standard', accepting only sats for payment, as savings, and preferring vendors/labor that does the same. I will link from my resources to yours, as I make them live, and look forward to seeing how yours develops. Reach out anytime to collaborate and sync up our operations, as we build out the Livingry Industrial Complex that Bucky and Bill Mollison planted seeds for half a century ago.

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Thanks for the thorough message. I will look into pattern language today. I’ve seen it in my studies but will dive deeper later and see what resonates. Appreciate your contribution ❤️
I’ll try it out when I get my permanent piece of land!
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As a pleb trapped in an HDB flat in Singapore, is this something that could be useful if I want to get my hands dirty with growing plants indoors and with limited space?
Absolutely! It can still be useful even in a spot with limited space. It works well for small scale setups like windowsills, balcony planters or indoor grow light shelves. The value is planning with intention and not guessing.
Start with one anchor plant, choose a few compatible companions and track what actually works in your exact light and humidity conditions over time. The more you input the more you get out! Also I’m hoping that all the urban growers out there use it and we build more and more knowledge as to what the best things to plant indoors actually are! If you want I can suggest a simple apartment/flat friendly starter setup (like 3-5 plants) that you can run in containers that will complement each other and help you get your hands dirty like tomorrow haha
Dude please recommend away :)
I'm all ears...
Alright here goes: start simple and learn as you go, observe and document. So a small space setup in Singapore id go for something like:
1 chili plant (main pot)
1 Thai basil
1 spring onion/chives pot
1 tray of kangkong which is basically asian spinach you should be able to find
Quick rules - 4-6 hour of sun on a window or balcony, if low light get a 20-40W grow light and have it on 12 hours/day. Water when the top soil is dry and then add an organic liquid fertilizer every 2 weeks.
You’ll be able to harvest the spring onions after 3 to 4 weeks, basil 4 to 6 weeks and chili 8 to 12 weeks.
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