growfood.md

### [grow food] - working title

### Pitch

This app would allow folks who are given vegetable/herb starts or seeds a way to 
search/select a certain vegetableto see how it's grown and how to harvest it,
you can also search by vegetable get recipes that include it.

### Problem

One of my previous bosses runs an organization in Indianapolis 
where they give folks plant starts so that they canstart their own gardens.
Currently there is no resource out there where folks can simply search or select by vegetable
to see how to grow and harvest the plant.  There is also no open source 
data such as what is on the back of seed packets for any given vegetable
or herb and I have been to many forums where people are asking for something that fills this void.
I even talked to a national seed company on Friday that said they thought
this app was a great idea and they may able to get me their data by Tuesday.   

### Solution

I want to put together the data I need to make this happen, which shouldn't take longer than a
day and then I can serve up an api so that this data is available to all.  I then want to have a
mobile centric user interface where folks can look up how to grow vegetables and find recipes 
for a given vegetable simply by searching and/or selecting.  

### Target Audience

The target audience for this app is anyone who is trying to grow vegetables 
but has lost the seed packet or been given a seed start or seeds without proper growing instructions.  

### Integrations

I plan to put together vegetable growing data myself and serve up an API for it since 
there is definitely a need for it. 
I also plan on using the edamam recipe api or another recipe api to be able to search 
and return recipes by vegetable.
If everything goes really well I'd like to use google maps to see when to plant 
certain vegetables based on zip code.
I plan to use Facebook oauth for this project.