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Organizations & communities 1

Resource Innovation Institute

organization

The nonprofit benchmarking energy and water efficiency in controlled environment agriculture: free best-practice guides on lighting, HVAC, and water plus PowerScore benchmarking.

Free engineering-grade guides to cut your grow's power and water bills.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Open source 5

AquaCrop (open source)

software-tool

The open Python implementation of FAO's crop-water productivity model.

Model yield against water before you commit either.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

FarmBot

hardware

The open-source CNC garden robot that seeds, waters, and weeds raised beds; hardware plans and software all free, used by five hundred schools.

A garden that tends itself, or the best robotics teaching platform agriculture has.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

GOAT (Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology)

community

The commons of open agricultural technology: a forum where the farmOS, OpenTEAM, and farm-hacker worlds meet, and a biennial gathering (next: December 2026, Seabrook Island, South Carolina).

The watering hole. If you build open tools for farms, these are your people.

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Verified Oct 13, 2026

NeverDry

software-tool

A new scientific water-balance irrigation integration for Home Assistant, releasing weekly since spring 2026.

The newest thinking in water-balance irrigation, free and moving fast.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Smart Irrigation for Home Assistant

software-tool

Evapotranspiration-based watering duration for Home Assistant: it does the FAO-56 math against real weather so you water what the plants actually used.

Irrigation that follows the weather instead of the calendar, free, in the platform you already run.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Data & APIs 3

Climate Smart Farming (Cornell)

software-tool

Cornell's suite of climate decision tools for Northeast farms: growing degree days, water deficit, freeze risk.

Run the water deficit calculator and know when to irrigate.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

CropManage

software-tool

A free web tool from UC Cooperative Extension that tells you when to irrigate and for how long, and how much nitrogen to put on, field by field. It works from CIMIS weather, your soil and the crop's stage. It covers vegetables, berries, tree nuts and field crops, and it also keeps your records. You need a free account, and it leans on California weather stations.

Field-specific irrigation schedules and nitrogen rates you can act on, plus records that help with California water-quality reporting.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

OpenET

data-api

Satellite-measured evapotranspiration at field scale across forty-eight states, with the FARMS tool for individual farmers and a REST API.

See how much water your fields actually consumed, monthly, free. This was thousands of dollars a field a decade ago.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Learning & media 4

BeardedTinker

publication-media

The one established maker channel running a sustained Home Assistant automate-my-land arc in 2026: vineyard, rain tanks, watering.

Watch HA meet actual land, weekly.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Bruce Bugbee / Apogee Instruments channel

publication-media

Measurement science for growers: PAR, soil moisture, and Bugbee's lighting lectures, rigorous and active.

University-grade instruction on measuring light and water, free from an instrument maker.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Smart Home Junkie

publication-media

Current, competent Home Assistant tutorials whose 2026 garden-watering guide took the top search slot in weeks.

The freshest HA irrigation walkthroughs going.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

UF/IFAS Greenhouse Training Online

university-program

Fifteen four-week online courses for commercial greenhouse and nursery growers, from Greenhouse 101 through nutrient management, irrigation, substrates, disease, growth regulators, weeds, climate, and water treatment. Also carries courses contributed by Ohio State, Texas A&M, and the Floriculture Alliance.

A structured greenhouse curriculum you can take one course at a time, each around $293, with certificates that count.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Inputs & safety 2

CleanWateR3 greenhouse water resources

university-program

The university alliance on greenhouse and nursery irrigation water: quality, treatment, recycling, and runoff.

Diagnose water-quality trouble in recirculating systems before it wrecks a crop.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Pesticide Properties DataBase

dataset

Free academic data on eighteen hundred active ingredients: environmental fate, bee toxicity, leaching potential. The numbers behind the label warnings. European regulatory fields differ from US status.

Compare two actives on bee toxicity or groundwater risk before choosing. Virtually unknown outside academia.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Suppliers & manufacturers 2

Monnit

distributor-manufacturer

The Salt Lake wireless sensor manufacturer: affordable temperature, humidity, and water sensors with cloud alerting.

Commercial-grade sensors for barns and coolers when DIY is not the mood.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Rain-Flo Irrigation

distributor-manufacturer

The Lancaster County manufacturer and dealer: drip supplies plus the vegetable plasticulture iron, mulch layers and water-wheel transplanters, at Plain-community prices.

The plasticulture standard for market growers, built where practicality is a virtue.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Universities & research 4

Auburn fisheries and aquaculture

university-program

AL

Auburn's School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences, the premier warm-water aquaculture program, with a 1,600-acre pond research station.

Extension programs and research from the school that trained much of the world's aquaculture industry.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Kentucky greenhouse and controlled environment horticulture

university-program

KY

The University of Kentucky's greenhouse and controlled-environment extension program.

Free grower resources organized by energy, growth, and water management.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Southern Regional Aquaculture Center

university-program

MS

The USDA regional center whose fact sheets are the standard free reference for warm-water aquaculture.

The SRAC fact sheet library: pond construction, species culture, water quality, one sheet per question.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Thad Cochran National Warmwater Aquaculture Center

university-program

MS

The Mississippi State-anchored national center at Stoneville: the research, extension, and diagnostic base of the US catfish industry.

Diagnostic services and the applied research behind commercial pond production.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

Our own tools & data 1

Calculators: Water, nutrients & feed (13)

software-tool

13 free tools for water, nutrients & feed, including Brix Refractometer Guide, Tank-Mix Compatibility Checker, Compound Lookup.

Pick the tool shaped like your question and run it in the browser.

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Verified Oct 14, 2026

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Places.

283 places matched; showing the closest 12. Add a town name or a state to narrow.

Waterberry Farm

Agritourism · Alabama

449 N. Morris Street, Slocomb, AL 36375

Locavore Farms

Agritourism · California

43 Water Street, Fort Bidwell, CA 96112

Colleges & universities.

9 institutions with agriculture programs matched.

Post University

Waterbury, CT

  • private for-profit
  • 4-year

1 field of study · Certificate to Bachelor's

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