In this release:​

Added:

• Support for accents and non-English characters in entity names.
• Security and reliability improvements (AppCheck, Shorebird).

Changed:

• Default Bed visibility changed to All Beds.
• Improvements to crop and variety name caching.
• Improvements to offsite backups.
• Improvements to database access code.

Fixed:

• Check for unique bed names fixed.
• Fixed BadgeProcessor to eliminate level 0 badges.
• Fixes to chapter-local crop name display.

To get the app, see the Getting Started page.

Jenna Deane will be hosting a workshop on ways that GeoGardenClub supports community and school gardens at the 2025 National GrowTogether Conference in New York City.

What: 2025 National GrowTogether Conference: Planting Seeds of Resilience
When: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Where: CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York

For more details and to register: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/greenthumb-growtogether

In this newsletter:​

• The power of names
• Hello Pumpkin and Zucchini crops
• Featured gardener: Margo
• How to... Create your first garden

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In this release:​

Added:

• Added in app review feature.
• New chapters for the 5 boroughs of NYC.
• Chapter-local crop names.

Fixed:

• Fixed Bed Chip background color.
• Migrated Winter Squash pumpkin varieties to Pumpkin crop varieties.
• Improved Retail Value calculations.
• Fixed chapter and garden images.

To get the app, see the Getting Started page.

Jenna Deane will be the featured speaker at the May "Innovation Social" of Innovate Bellingham.

What: Innovation Social
When: Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 5pm-7pm
Where: Amendment 21, Bellingham, WA

For more details and to register: https://lu.ma/4bv49spj

In this newsletter:​

• Gardener Spotlight: Erin & Shanna!
• Waste Prevention in the Garden

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Jenna Deane hosted a live webinar on April 11, 2025 for Food Waste Prevention Week.

The archived recording is now available online:

In this release:​

Added

• Added Family entity management.

Fixed

• Fix private observations to work correctly.
• Fixed share reply screen so that keyboard does not cover form.
• Improvements to instrumentation.
• Improve chapter index screen to only show chapters with members.
• Gold varieties are now chapter specific

To get the app, see the Getting Started page.

In this newsletter:​

• How to use the Tasks feature
• Featured Gardener: Jessie

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Edible Seattle’s editor Lindsay Kucera recently sat down with Jenna Deane to discuss GeoGardenClub.

Contents:

• What it is
• How it works
• Q&A with GeoGardenClub Founder Jenna Deane

Click here for the full article.