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Very nice! Next step: steer users to where they can get the produce. I would suggest teaming up with Community Supported Agriculture [1] where people can buy stuff right off the farm with subscription. [1] https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Next question: Is this public code?
I have a suggestion which would make it very useful for me: hints on when to plant. Since you have the timing for "peak season" and (I assume) the growing times to get there, hopefully it would be easy to work backwards to arrive at planting times.
As a new gardener in Southern California, I could use some help planning my planting schedule. I can get away with planting a lot of things whenever I feel like it, but sticking with the ideal times would help optimize my yields.
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Thanks for the feedback - this is very first version, and there are a lot of improvements to make. I think you're right about the wording, reading it with fresh eyes it is very confusing, and I'll change it ASAP. Right now, all the farm information data is pulled from aggregated USDA data so there is a ton of work left to do to get better, finer-grained results. My plan is to look at which zip codes get the most quer…
Have you come across [Local Harvest]( https://www.localharvest.org ) before? That might be a good data source, at least for what farms exist where. I don't know if they collect data on what farms actually grow. But I empathize a lot. I've pursued a number of side projects in this space. I've worked on an online farmer's market, a plant database, and a recipe database in the hope of solving a nexus of problems around…
Thank you for sharing your experience, it's really interesting to hear from other people interested in this space and I haven't had a chance to do so before, so I appreciate it.
The results are kind of confusing. If I put in zip code 22003 (not mine, but close, and the results are the same) it tells me "1 Result from Georgia" which is bell peppers from a place 611 miles away, then "10 Results from other states" including one place 14 miles away, and another 36 miles away. The wording seems to imply that it thinks 22003 is in Georgia and the top result is the best, but it's in Virginia and th…
I'll experiment with moving the email form to under the results, or putting it behind a button. I was trying to make it low friction, but I think I might have gone a bit far.
The results are kind of confusing. If I put in zip code 22003 (not mine, but close, and the results are the same) it tells me "1 Result from Georgia" which is bell peppers from a place 611 miles away, then "10 Results from other states" including one place 14 miles away, and another 36 miles away. The wording seems to imply that it thinks 22003 is in Georgia and the top result is the best, but it's in Virginia and th…
Ah yeah, the zip database I'm using is a bit out of date (as some other people have mentioned) and you're seeing this behaviour as it thinks 22003 is in Georgia. I had a hunch people might be more interested in results from their own state even if they were a bit further away, but clearly in this case that doesn't make sense. I'll experiment with moving the email form to under the results, or putting it behind a butt…
Couple of suggestions:
I signed up for the email, but I'd likely pay more attention to a monthly email as personally I get so many "weekly" email that I setup a filter consciously or not.
Second, `being` is misspelled in your post-signup message: "confirmation link to being receiving fresh produce notifications once a week." Might even be good to reword it a bit .:-)
Very cool. Not sure if your motivation is to "promote local eating" or if you're trying to build a cool product that would bring in some cash... but if you're looking to monetize, I'd pay a small amount (about the cost of a magazine) for a HIGH-QUALITY set of recipe suggestions that use 6 ingredients or less, and take ~1hr to cook. (because I cook for a family every day, I don't have all day to cook, and I don't want…
One correction: 'Cantaloups' should be spelled 'Cantaloupes'.
It would be really nice to have the tags clickable (for example 'Peak', so that we can figure out what produce would be cheaper).