From the Ground Up

S. Molloy MSDV 2022 Graduate thesis
Literature Review - WIP

Horticultural Variables Problem Sketch

1. Horticultural communities + data
   a. What will access to food look like in communities that do not have access to information to grow food?
   b. What does an educated and engaged gardening community look like?
   c. How to distribute complex information in a way that makes it usable for non-subject matter experts?
   d. Example communities + engagement
   
   • National Gardening Association
   • Growstuff
   • OpenFarm
2. Horticultural data for education
   a. What variables are shared across different communities?
   b. Which variables need a lot of expertise to understand? Which do not?
   c. Which variables need to be understood/explored/considered together?
   d. Reliable, accessible sources
   
   • Plants for a future
   • USDA Plants
   • National Gardening Association
3. Opportunities for horticultural data
   a. Machine learning
   
   • "Plants meet machines: Prospects in machine learning for plant biology" - National Center for Biotechnology Information
   • "Applications of deep-learning approaches in horticultural research: a review" - Nature Portfolio
     b. IoT
     
   • MIT OpenAg
   • "A Garden that Cares for Itself" - Google Developers