Good Soil Society

Tools

Every tool. One principle: start with the soil.

Here's what you get free, what you get as a Grower ($9/mo), and what's coming in the Steward tier.
Person tending raised vegetable beds with notebook nearby

The tools are built to be used outside, with dirt on your hands.

Every screen is designed for one-handed use, intermittent connectivity, and the messy reality of a real garden. Photos work offline, sync when you're back inside.

What's inside

Eight tools. Built to work together.

Garden Architect

Grower

Plan a regenerative garden tailored to your zone, your soil, and the plants you actually want to grow.

A canvas where you sketch your beds, drag plants in from the library, and let the AI review your layout for companion planting, soil amendments, and the seasonal timing window for your zone.

Example: a 4×8 raised bed in Zone 8b returns a planting plan with three sister-planting groupings, a recommended cover crop rotation, and a phased purchase list of seeds, amendments, and tools.

Pest Vision

Grower

Photograph what's wrong with your plant. Get a diagnosis and a remedy.

Snap up to three photos of an affected plant. The diagnosis returns a confidence level, the affected plant area, and a ranked remedy flow. The free holistic remedy is always rank one — never a synthetic chemical.

Example: a photo of aphids on a kale leaf returns a garlic-spray recipe (rank 1, free), a bio-insecticide option from a Good Soil Approved partner (rank 2), and an organic alternative with the tradeoff noted (rank 3).

Soil Scout (AI)

Free

Ask anything about regenerative growing. Answers grounded in real sources.

The Scout is an AI chat trained on the GSS knowledge vault — Gabe Brown, Will Harris, Allan Nation, USDA research, prenatal nutrition literature, the founder journal — and it knows your zone, your soil type, and your active garden plans.

Free tier: 3 questions/day. Grower tier: unlimited. Every answer cites its sources so you can verify the reasoning.

Companion Engine

Grower

Search any plant. See who it grows well with — and who it doesn't.

Ranked companion + conflict relationships for every plant in the library, with the biological reason behind each one. Powers real-time hints inside Garden Architect.

Example: search 'tomato' — basil and borage rank as strong companions (with explanations); fennel and brassicas show as conflicts.

Find a Regen Farm

Free

Source clean food from vetted local producers.

Searchable directory of producers who meet the Good Soil Standard. Seeded with the founders' personal network — White Oak, Polyface, Brown's Ranch — and growing weekly as new producers earn the Verified or Certified tier.

Public, free, no signup. Filter by category, sort by distance.

Prenatal Garden Planner

Grower

Plan the garden whose harvest hits when postpartum begins.

Built specifically for expecting and new mothers. The 9 nutrients pregnancy depletes most aggressively, mapped to the plants that restore them, sequenced so the harvest hits when you need it most.

Trimester 1 plantings → second-trimester harvests. T2 plantings → late pregnancy / early postpartum. T3 → 90-day postpartum window.

Mineral Density Library

Grower

Search foods by what they actually contain — not what the label claims.

A searchable database of foods ranked by mineral density. Connects 'I want more iron' to specific foods and the regenerative growing practices that produce them.

Cross-references USDA composition data with regen-grown samples to highlight where the gap is largest.

Soil Lab Interpreter

Steward

Send your Mehlich-3 soil test, get a regen-aligned amendment plan.

Upload a soil-lab PDF (Logan Labs, Waypoint Analytical, Ward Labs). The interpreter translates the numbers into a season-by-season amendment plan tuned for the plants you're growing — without commission-driven product recommendations.

Phase-2 feature, lands in the Steward tier.

Side by side

What you get at each tier.

FeatureFreeGrowerSteward
Plant libraryBasicFullFull
Planting calendarBasicFull + zone-awareFull + 5-yr planner
Soil Scout AI3/dayUnlimitedPriority queue
Garden Architect
Pest Vision
Companion Engine
Phased Purchase List
Mineral Density Library
Prenatal Planner
Find a Regen Farm
Soil Lab Interpreter
5-Year Rotational Planner
Founder Q&A access

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