RegenOS & Troppo grower tools — digital food-forest craft
Digital case study: free Troppo planning tools and RegenOS land intelligence — built so lessons from Te Puke’s urban food forest can travel further than a single plot.
Comprehensive information
From canopy to code
When you walk Troppo’s urban forest, the questions arrive fast: What spacing? What accompanies avocado? When does anything fruit? How do layers stack in three dimensions? Answering those once on a whiteboard does not scale. The Troppo grower-tool suite and RegenOS are the digital continuation of that teaching — so a grower in Nelson or Northland can plan without inventing the wheel.
Free Troppo grower tools
Canonical hub (always link here for the collective map): kairesilience.food/tools
| Tool | Role |
|---|---|
| Orchard & Food Forest Planner | 285+ edible species, rootstock spacings, climate suitability, harvest timelines, syntropic / agroecology guides |
| Companion Planting Matrix | Who supports whom in guild thinking |
| Continuous Harvests | Calendar view of harvest continuity |
| Canopy Layer Visualiser | See layers in space, not only on a list |
| Food Forest Quiz / Troppo Games | Learning by play |
| Nursery Map | Find nurseries across Aotearoa |
These tools are free public goods in the charity’s kai resilience work — born from nursery and forest practice, not from a SaaS pitch deck.
RegenOS — land plans from observation
RegenOS is the regenerative land-planning and plant-intelligence platform in the same network. Where the Troppo tools help you choose and schedule, RegenOS helps turn site observation into a plan — the “apply” step after school courses and before (or alongside) community connection on the Kai Resilience directory.
Design principles behind the digital layer
- Practice first — tools encode questions raised in a real Te Puke food forest and nursery
- NZ climate honesty — regional suitability and frost reality beat generic northern-hemisphere plant lists
- Open doors — free tools hub on Kai Resilience; deep links on
*.troppo.nzwhere useful - One pathway — School → tools / RegenOS → directory / living sites (Troppo, Grow Te Puke, Food Forests NZ)
Community engagement online
Quizzes, games, shared planners and nursery maps are engagement surfaces for people who may never attend a Te Puke workshop. They lower the intimidation of “starting a food forest” and send serious growers toward patterns, guilds and living demos.
How this knowledge site fits
foodforest.org.nz is the quotable guide layer (layers, plants, guilds, patterns). The tools are for calculation and visualisation. RegenOS is for planning. Troppo is for standing under a real canopy. Use them together.
Open the toolkit
- Tools hub: kairesilience.food/tools
- RegenOS: regenos.app
- Living reference: troppo.nz
References
- Kai Resilience tools hub — Canonical free-tools map
- Orchard & Food Forest Planner — Species, spacings, climate, syntropic guides
- RegenOS — Regenerative land planning
- VGCT — RegenOS project — Charity project framing