Market garden planning with Qrop/Brinjel

On a bio-intensive micro-farm, planning often makes the difference between a season you endure and a season you master. To structure our work, we use Brinjel (formerly Qrop), software designed for market gardeners that connects the crop plan, daily tasks and results tracking.

Brinjel features

• Plan your season. Design your crop plan: families, species, varieties, successions, bed lengths, spacings, densities, expected yields. Automatically generate seeding and planting tasks with required seed quantities and the number of trays to sow in the nursery. Visualize each season of your crop plan. Create, duplicate, delete, batch-edit, sort and filter your successions.
• Track your daily tasks. Manage your tasks week by week: seeding, planting, weeding, pruning, irrigation. Quickly filter overdue, pending or completed tasks. Track labor costs per task.
• Manage your plots, crop layout and rotations. Set up your crop layout by simply placing your successions on your plots. Use the cultivation history of each bed to respect crop rotation.
• Track your harvests and yields. Record harvested quantities per succession. Brinjel calculates yields per succession and per crop.
• Buy your seeds and plants. Automatic generation, from your crop plan, of seed and plant ordering lists.
• Use charts and statistics. Analyze your results (yields, working time, gap between forecast and actual) to refine planning for the following year.
• Take notes and photos. Link them to successions, tasks or locations to keep a fine-grained memory of the farm.
• Collaborate. Invite other people into your farm’s dedicated space. Manage each profile’s permissions (guest, head grower, team member, seasonal worker) and assign tasks.

The strength of Brinjel is that it centralizes in one place what would otherwise be scattered across notebooks, spreadsheets and individual memory. The crop plan becomes a living document, consulted and updated throughout the season.

Year after year, the accumulated data allows you to fine-tune densities, volumes and calendars with growing precision.