The operations platform built for nonprofit urban farms.
The kind that grow on rooftops, in vacant lots, and inside community campuses — and that answer to grant funders, volunteer coordinators, and a dozen partner organizations all at once.
One source of truth, for the way urban farms actually work.
RootOps is a web and mobile-friendly platform that replaces the tangle of spreadsheets, paper logs, and shared Google Docs that most urban farm teams live in today. It centralizes crop planning, daily field operations, harvest tracking, volunteer and apprentice coordination, and grant reporting into a single source of truth — one your whole team, your board, and your funders can trust.
It is multi-tenant from day one: each organization that uses RootOps gets its own private, isolated workspace with its own branding, users, and data.
Mission-driven growers with many destinations and many stakeholders.
Nonprofit urban farms, community gardens, food-justice operations, and educational growing programs that share produce across multiple destinations — restaurants, food pantries, CSA members, partner schools, on-site cafes, farmers markets — and that need to report back to grantors on what was grown, where it went, and who it served.
Built for many crops, many destinations, many stakeholders.
Harvest Log The differentiator
Bring in 40 lbs of tomatoes and split them across a partner restaurant, an apprentice training program, a community pantry, and a CSA box — logged in seconds, by weight, percentage, or count. The math stays clean for downstream reporting. No other small-farm tool handles this well, because most assume a single buyer.
Crop Plan Builder
Plan your full growing season in a fast, spreadsheet-style table — every crop, variety, bed, planting date, and projected harvest window. Sort, filter, and edit inline. Built for the way growers actually plan, not the way databases want you to.
Master Calendar
Plant, transplant, harvest, and maintenance tasks generate automatically from your crop plan and roll up into a single team calendar. The crew sees what's due today; managers see the season at a glance.
Greenhouse & Tray Tracker
Mobile-first interface for tracking seedling trays, germination, and transplant readiness — designed to be used with one hand while you're standing in the greenhouse.
Visual Bed Map
See your beds laid out visually with what's planted where, planting dates, and harvest readiness. Click a bed to drill into its history.
Volunteers & Apprentices
Track hours, assignments, and program participation tied to the actual work being done — so program reporting writes itself.
Grant Impact Reports
Pull harvest data, distribution data, and program participation into funder-ready reports without rebuilding them from scratch each quarter.
Public Availability Calendar
Let partner restaurants, food hubs, and chefs see what's coming off the field this week without a phone call or email.
Urban nonprofit farms have a different shape. The software should too.
The small-farm software market is crowded — Tend, Farmbrite, AgSquared, FarmOS, Local Line — but every existing tool assumes a commercial grower with one channel and one type of buyer.
Urban nonprofit farms have a fundamentally different shape: smaller acreage, more crop diversity, more destinations per harvest, more stakeholders per dollar of produce, and reporting obligations to funders rather than wholesale buyers.
Commercial farm software
- One buyer per harvest
- Wholesale invoicing
- Yield-per-acre as the core metric
- "Nonprofit mode" as an afterthought
RootOps
- Many destinations per harvest, by design
- Volunteer hours as a first-class entity
- Grant impact as the core metric
- Multi-tenant nonprofit-first from day one
"It is not a generic farm tool with a nonprofit mode bolted on. The data model assumes multi-destination splits, volunteer hours, and grant reporting from the ground up."
Modern, secure, and built to work with muddy hands.
Next.js, Postgres, hosted on enterprise-grade infrastructure with row-level security so each organization's data stays private and isolated. Mobile-friendly throughout — designed to work in a greenhouse with muddy hands as well as on a laptop in a planning meeting.
Want a workspace for your farm?
RootOps is in early access. If you run a nonprofit urban farm, community garden, or educational growing program and want to see how it fits, drop a line.