Pipling at the San Diego AgTech Hackathon
The Pipling Project is a California nonprofit working to reduce inequality through plants.
Pipling is a gardening platform with a friendly guide named Pip. Today we're showing how a nursery's own knowledge can go home with every plant it grows.
Every plant from the nursery carries a label with a QR code and an NFC tag. Tap it with any phone and the plant's own page opens. No app and no account needed.
Hold your phone to the tag, or point the camera at the QR code on the pot.
How it was grown, written by the people who grew it, plus plant facts and one thing worth knowing.
Sun, water, soil and the nursery's own tips, so the plant keeps thriving after it leaves.
A real plant page, live on pipling.app
Five plants from the nursery, with photos and plant notes by Anna Lauer. Tap one to open its live page.
The plant page is where it starts. Inside Pipling, Pip helps people choose well and keep their plants alive.
Thinking of taking a plant home? Pip gives a clear yes or no for your own space, and says why.
Live in Pipling
Pip answers from the nursery's own records and shows where each answer came from. With no verified source, Pip says so instead of guessing.
For the first time, a nursery learns what happens after the sale: which plants people tap and read about. Counts only, never who the visitor is.
Explore
Choose a question and open a tool that can help. The same Explore you'll find inside Pipling.
Start with a plant or a photo.
Soil and local weather can shape what to do next.
Compare sand, silt, and clay percentages and see what the texture class means.
Open Soil Texture Lab
See current conditions for your location and use them to plan outdoor work.
View local weatherFrom a weekly harvest share back to seeds and beds.
A few practical ideas, whenever you're curious.
Want to learn with your community?Step into the MiraCosta College campus gardenExplore campus plants, events, and hands-on horticulture learning.
Everything in Explore is live in Pipling. The tools open there, and the field guides open right here, the same guides you'll find in the app.
A concept we're testing: field notes about California native plants, by the people who grow and study them.
A concept for paid, local work with plants: find an ambassador near you who studies plants in college, see their profile and portfolio, or partner your yard with one and grow together.
The bigger mission
Paths into real, paid work in gardens, farms, nurseries and the organization itself.
Students share field notes and the cultural roots of the plants they grow.
The same platform for other colleges, nurseries and farms with programs like this one.
