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Plant Family App

A community hub for wellness, connection, trading, empowerment, and safety — all in one place.

The Plant Family App is being co-built by our community to weave together the relationships, plants, and stories that already sustain us. It is a living reclamation project — a place where human-to-earth knowledge, passed down through elders, herbalists, farmers, singers, and youth, comes back into daily practice. Every post, song, seed swap, and recipe is a thread in that fabric.

We believe wellness lives in relationship — with plants, land, ancestors, and each other. The app brings together a Community Hub, Marketplace, plant songs, plant tracking, cultural gathering spaces, and shared knowledge — so wellness, food, ceremony, work, and belonging all live in the same trusted place. Preview the growing app at plantfamily.app.

Our first physical Plant Family Books — sing-along coloring books co-created with Indigenous youth — are already in hand. They carry plant songs, plant names in original languages, and stories that reawaken relationship with the beings who feed and heal us. Sales fund the next book, the next cohort, and the next chapter of this reclamation.

Plant Family sing-along coloring book 1
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Five Support Systems, One App

Wellness

Community wellness circles, herbalism consultations, breathwork, tai chi, outdoor fitness, and traditional healing practices — surfaced right in your neighborhood.

Connection

Find and join local gatherings, ceremonies, song circles, cultural dance workshops, and intergenerational events that keep community tissue strong.

Trading

Trade seeds, seedlings, tools, produce, and handmade goods. A gift economy layer for free items sits alongside a marketplace for makers and farmers.

Empowerment

Post needs, wants, and services. List your skills, hire community members, and grow small businesses through visibility and cooperative support.

Safety

Safe overnight parking, culturally specific spaces, private events, and community-vetted lodging — designed for those most impacted by isolation.

Community Hub — What You Can Post

The Hub is a shared bulletin, tuned to your zip code and radius. Every post is tagged by type and audience so people find exactly the neighbors, events, and offerings they're looking for.

Events

Workshops, ceremonies, work parties, celebrations, and cultural gatherings.

Needs

Urgent asks — from compost for a school garden to support for a family.

Wants

Looking-for posts: seedlings, mentors, rides, materials, collaborators.

Lodging

Safe overnight parking, guest space, and community-vetted stays.

Free Items

Gift economy — cuttings, manure for gardens, extra harvest, tools.

Jobs

Farm hands, apprenticeships, part-time and seasonal work with local growers.

Services

Herbalists, CSA delivery, land clearing, garden prep, wellness offerings.

Marketplace — What You Can Buy, Sell & Trade

Shop from local stores and neighbors, or list your own goods. Free delivery for members on nearby orders, with a flat delivery fee beyond the radius. Trades and barter sit right next to cash listings, so nobody is priced out of the abundance.

Plants for Sale

Starts, perennials, medicinals, and houseplants from neighbors and local stores.

Seeds

Heirloom and regionally adapted seed collections, plus seed-saver swaps.

Soil & Compost

Organic potting soil, aged manure, and compost by the bucket or the yard.

Wood Chips & Mulch

Arborist chips and mulch from local tree services — often free or low cost.

Tools & Equipment

Buy, sell, borrow, or lend garden tools instead of everyone owning everything.

Trades & Barter

List an item as a trade — tools for seeds, harvest for help, skill for skill.

Bulk Buy Discounts

Group orders so families and small farms get wholesale pricing together.

Gift Boxes

Curated wellness kits — herbal teas, honey, elderberry syrup, handmade soap.

Local Delivery

Free delivery for members on nearby orders, with a flat fee beyond the radius.

Grow — Stay Organized, Help Your Plants Thrive

The Grow section is your garden's memory. Plan beds before you dig, log every plant, get care reminders that match the plant instead of a generic schedule, and track what you actually harvested. Over seasons it becomes a record of what thrives on your land — and anything you're growing extra of can become a Free Item, a trade, or a Marketplace listing in a couple of taps.

My Garden

Every bed, pot, and plot in one place — what's planted where, how much space is left, and what's ready to rotate.

Plant Log

Log each plant with photos, planting date, source, and notes so you remember what actually worked.

Garden Planner

Map beds and companion plantings before you dig, and plan succession so nothing sits empty.

Planting Calendar

Regional frost dates, start-indoors and direct-sow windows, and transplant timing for your zip code.

Care Reminders

Watering, feeding, pruning, and repotting nudges tuned to each plant instead of a generic schedule.

Harvest Tracker

Record harvests over the season to see real yields — and what you gave away or traded.

Plant Health Notes

Track pests, disease, and weather stress with photos so patterns show up year over year.

Seed & Propagation

Seed inventory, germination results, and cuttings you've rooted or shared out.

Knowledge Library

Plant ID, care, harvest cycles, and traditional uses contributed by herbalists, elders, and growers.

Share Your Abundance

Turn any tracked plant into a Free Item, trade, or Marketplace listing in a couple of taps.

Emergency & Resources

If you or someone you love is in immediate danger, call 911. Everything in this section is free, confidential, and community-vetted — public to everyone, no account needed. If you're worried someone is monitoring your device, use a friend's phone or a library computer and open a private window.

Emergency Listings Map

Color-coded map of urgent needs — domestic violence escape, fire, flood, lost pets — with a one-tap "I will help" response.

ICE Sightings & Support

Dated sighting pins, reports of detained neighbors, and volunteers offering food, rides, and pet fostering.

Hotlines & 24/7 Support

StrongHearts Native Helpline, Ujima, the National DV Hotline, RAINN, Trans Lifeline, The Trevor Project, 988, and SAMHSA.

MMIW / MMIWG2S

MMIW USA, Sovereign Bodies Institute, NamUs, Not Our Native Daughters, and the Urban Indian Health Institute report.

Safety Planning Guides

Personal safety planning, tech safety, community accountability toolkits, and bystander intervention training.

Local Shelters & Services

DomesticShelters.org, 211, and VictimConnect for shelter, food, and crisis referrals near you.

Alerts Near You

Choose your radius for emergency alerts plus weekly or monthly local event notifications.

Safety Directory & Reports

The Safety Directory is members-only and private. Have you been directly impacted, or seen a pattern of harm? Verified members can file a report that goes to moderators — no public shaming. It exists so gatherings, ceremonies, lodging hosts, and youth spaces can be protected before harm spreads, and so survivors are met with support circles instead of silence.

Members-Only Reporting

Verified members can file a private report when they've been directly impacted or have seen a pattern of harm.

Moderator Review

Reports go to trained moderators — no public shaming, no pile-ons, no exposure of the person reporting.

Protecting Gatherings

Hosts of events, ceremonies, and lodging can be warned before harm reaches a circle.

Support Circles

Survivors are connected to accountability and healing circles rather than left alone with a report.

Privacy First

Guidance on private browsing, device safety, and reporting from a friend's phone or library computer.

More Features

Community Hub

Filter posts by type, zip code, and radius so what shows up is truly local.

Marketplace

Sell seeds, herbs, tinctures, salves, tools, and handmade goods with fair, community-first fees.

Plant Songs

Audio library of Plant Family songs created with our Indigenous youth cohorts — sing-along videos included.

Plant Tracking

Log what you grow, where, and what you've shared — building a personal + community record of abundance.

Knowledge Sharing

Plant ID, care, harvest cycles, and traditional uses — contributed by herbalists, elders, and growers.

Personal Profiles

Show your skills, needs, offerings, and interests — with privacy controls for youth and families.

Cultural Spaces

Indigenous, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and family spaces can be public or private — hosts choose who they gather.

Partnerships

Connect with farmers, herbalists, healers, and cooperatives across the region.

Youth-Safe by Design

Age-appropriate audiences, moderated private events, and protective defaults for young users.