About GroundGuide

GroundGuide is a free, open knowledge commons for documenting place-based land observations — plants and practices, recorded by people on the ground.

All contributions are released to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No ads, no paywalls, no data selling. Just knowledge, shared freely.

Modern systems of food production, land management, and infrastructure are built on assumptions that are already breaking down. Supply chains stretch thin. Soil degrades. Local knowledge gets replaced by generic advice written for somewhere else.

Meanwhile, people everywhere are quietly figuring out what actually works where they are — what grows in their soil, what survives their climate, what their grandparents knew and never wrote down.

That knowledge is irreplaceable. Indigenous communities have refined it over thousands of years. Smallholders, gardeners, and land workers add to it every season. But most of it lives in memory, in conversation, in practice — and when it isn't passed on, it disappears.

GroundGuide exists to make sure it doesn't. A place to document what you observe on your land, so that anyone working similar ground anywhere in the world can learn from it. Not theory. Not product recommendations. Just direct observation, tied to a real place, shared openly.

The most useful knowledge about land has always come from the people standing on it.