VeggieCropper is a quiet, anti complexity tool for market gardeners who want a solid structure for crop planning, mapping, and task execution, without turning farming into software work.
I built VeggieCropper because I was tired of holding the entire farm in my head.
For years, I tried to solve that with spreadsheets. They got more and more complex, more clever, more fragile. One wrong edit and things broke. They were slow to use, hard to maintain, and impossible to trust during the busiest parts of the season.
Most farm software did not feel better. It replaced spreadsheets with dashboards, complexity with different complexity, and added a constant demand for attention.
I did not want smarter software. I wanted less noise.
VeggieCropper is intentionally quiet.
The interface is clean and uncrowded because it has to be. During the season, there is already enough going on. If the software asks you to think harder, click more, or manage the system itself, it has failed.
The goal is not to optimise everything. The goal is to make the next obvious thing easy to see.
The core idea is simple, build enough structure ahead of time that you do not have to improvise under pressure.
VeggieCropper gives you a place to organise crop data, build and visualise successions, and map plantings to real beds. Not as an abstract plan, but as something grounded in the physical layout of the farm.
That structure does not exist so you can stare at it. It exists so you can stop thinking about it.
Once the structure is in place, the day to day work becomes obvious.
Tasks are not there to micromanage labour. They are there to get the details out of your head so nothing gets missed when things are busy, weather shifts, or plans change.
Instead of constantly remembering what is coming next, you can see it, adjust it, and move on. The system holds the complexity so you do not have to.
Farming does not offer redos.
It is time based, seasonal, and biological. A missed step, a forgotten succession, or a misjudged week does not just cost time, it can cost an entire crop, a market window, or a chunk of the season. At a certain level, small mistakes are expensive.
That is what pushed me past spreadsheets. I even wrote custom Google Apps Script to pipe task lists out of Google Sheets and into a todo app, just to keep things from slipping through the cracks. It worked, until it did not.
VeggieCropper exists so the system remembers what matters when I do not have the bandwidth to.
Every season teaches you something. What worked, what did not, what was too much effort for too little return.
VeggieCropper is built around that reality. It makes it easier to carry lessons forward from one season to the next, simplify instead of accumulate, and become more efficient without losing the parts of farming that make it meaningful.
Efficiency only matters if it creates space. Space to notice things, space to enjoy the work, space to keep farming human.
VeggieCropper is not about controlling the farm. It is about supporting a way of farming that has rhythm, clarity, and room to breathe.
I built it to run my own farm. I still use it every day. That is the only benchmark that matters.
-Evan Quigley