CONNECTING PLANTING-RELATED APPS WITH NURSERIES THAT CARRY NATIVE PLANTS

Native plants are essential to preserving biodiversity.

Native plant websites assist selection of native plants, though don’t connect their uses to local retail outlets supplying the respective plants.

Native Plant Retail Catalog (“NPRC”) provides this needed nursery catalog data in a massive, API accessible database.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLANT VENDORS

Retail Plant Catalog (RPC) enables nurseries to easily share their native plant availability data with many more retail buyers. The nursery simply registers the URL (Internet address) where their availability data is published. This can be as simple as a link to a PDF file. RPC scans and processes the data weekly, and automatically shares it with other websites that serve it to buyers searching their sites. It’s a simple, completely FREE process that can significantly expand a nursery’s exposure to the retail market.

ABOUT PLANT AGENTS COLLECTIVE

Plant Agents Collective is a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Our mission is to support the development and use of open-source, data-driven technology that makes it easier to select, find and nurture native plants in gardens and landscapes.

We are part of a broad community of individuals and organizations working to preserve and restore biodiversity by facilitating the widespread use of native plants in gardens and landscapes. Plant Agents Collective contributes by bringing together interdisciplinary scientists, horticulture and landscape professionals, and software experts who identify new, collaborative technological solutions to advance the use of native plants.

How It Works

Data Exposed Via API

Volunteers register nurseries

NPRC scans and maps native plant data

Apps and homeowners use the database

How to Become a Vendor

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VOLUNTEER DRIVEN NURSERY CURATION

The RPC database relies on automated scanning of nursery websites to determine the native plants they carry.

The initial registration of nursery data is driven by volunteers who curate the nursery level data (name, address, phone number, email, website URLs).

ANGEL SPONSORS

Plant Agents Collective greatly appreciates the significant, early funding provided by EBSCO Industries and the Mike & Gillian Goodrich Foundation, without which this website and the Retail Plant Catalog would not be available.

           

Apps Leveraging with NPRC Data:

          

SPECIAL THANKS

The Retail Plant Catalog was made possible by key contributions from Zach Leahan’s Choose Native Plants team and their Code for Philly volunteers. Also special thanks to Stephanie Frischie (Xerces Society) for expanding the catalog’s reach to other states and ecoregions.