Permapeople

Permapeople treats a garden plan and its plant knowledge as shared data. Its profiles collect edible uses, growth form, hardiness, light and soil preferences, propagation details and reported companion relationships. Those records can be assembled into permaculture guilds and placed in a scaled plan, helping a designer think about layers and interactions rather than isolated rows. More unusually, the project offers open data and an API, so a researcher or developer can examine, download and reuse information instead of being restricted to the site's interface.

Openness does not make every field equally authoritative. Community contributions may be incomplete, regional names can collide, and companion-planting claims often have weaker evidence than temperature or size data. A careful user should trace important assertions and compare them with local extension advice before designing a permanent planting. The planner also lacks some of the task reminders and polished scheduling found in subscription products. Permapeople earns its place through portability and collaborative structure: it is a useful working commons for plant research and ecological layouts, provided uncertainty remains visible.