Independent by nature. Rooted in India.

Technology that
grows with the land.

Independent software for plant communities and Indian agriculture.

Plant communities / Agricultural toolsTake a closer look ↓

Small beginnings.
Meaningful possibilities.

Two projects, one intention: make technology useful to the people who grow.

Community / Native mobileIn development
PlantSpace development preview: a plant journal in the Canopy feed

PlantSpace

A calmer place to document your plants, share what you learn, and meet people who care about growing.

Explore PlantSpace
Agriculture / Decision supportIn planning
FIELD / OBSERVATIONROOTED IN RESEARCH

CropPulse

Research towards clearer farm input information, practical dosage calculations, and integrated pest management in India.

Explore the research

Building now.

A dated view of the work, from tangible website improvements to questions still open in the products.

Updated

01 / Completed here

Make the work inspectable.

  • Development previews for Canopy, Greenhouse, and Whisperings, with enlarged views.
  • Three project notes explaining an interface choice, a research example, and website behavior.
  • Static pages with self-hosted assets and an email draft composer.
Read the project notes
02 / Current experiments

Questions worth working through.

  • PlantSpace: exploring plant journal, discovery, and conversation interfaces in native mobile clients.
  • CropPulse: working through how a source note should preserve formulation, units, and missing information.

PlantSpace is in development. CropPulse is in planning; the research note is a worked example.

03 / Next steps

A small, useful next piece.

  • Review one Canopy screen for accessibility and clear language.
  • Review a sourced agronomy record before designing a calculator around it.
  • Document supported devices, saving behavior, and messaging boundaries before public testing.
Explore a contribution brief

This is a progress snapshot. Experiments and next steps may change as we learn; no release dates are promised.

A little closer
to what grows.

From the first sprout to a shared discovery. A look at the interface we are building.

PlantSpace Canopy development preview showing a rice seedling post

Canopy / A journal of your growing world

PlantSpace Greenhouse development preview showing plant topics and grower discovery

Greenhouse / Knowledge grows when shared

PlantSpace Whisperings messaging interface concept; security features remain in development

Whisperings / A conversation in the making

01 — DOCUMENT

Every plant
has a story.

Keep the small moments: a new leaf, a stubborn cutting, a first harvest. Sprouts are plant updates; Vines are the conversations that follow.

Canopy · Public posts and discussions
02 — DISCOVER

Find your
kind of grower.

Explore plant topics and learn from other gardeners. We are designing Greenhouse around shared interests and practical knowledge.

Greenhouse · Topics and community discovery
03 — CONNECT

Good things begin
with a conversation.

Whisperings is our planned private messaging space. End-to-end encryption for one-to-one conversations is a development goal; security details will be published before testing opens.

Development previews · Features may change

From a small seed.
Into your own.

A botanical profile concept that grows with your plant journey. Explore Seed, Bud, Leaf, and Bloom.

An interface demonstration, not a measure of gardening expertise. Progression rules are still being designed.

Seed

A beginning. Make a little space for something green.

Four shapes, one growing idea.

The decisions
behind the work.

One screen, one research example, and one engineering problem. A closer look at what we are building and what still needs checking.

Interface / PlantSpace

Keeping a plant update in context.

What the Canopy preview puts first, where botanical shapes help, and what an accessibility review should challenge.

Read the interface note
Research example / CropPulse

Units before answers.

An illustrative area conversion shows why formulation, source context, and unknowns belong beside a number.

Read the research note
Engineering / This website

When previews arrive out of order.

How the screenshot tabs handle slow image decoding, keyboard control, and a change of mind.

Read the engineering note

Deep roots.
Honest software.

A rhizome connects a plant beneath the surface. It is a useful starting point for how we build: grounded, connected, and patient.

  1. 01

    Useful in the real world

    Start with the questions growers ask. Let field conditions shape the software.

  2. 02

    Respect for people

    Collect less. Explain what happens to data. Keep advertising trackers out of this website.

  3. 03

    Progress you can see

    Share the work as it develops, with clear boundaries between a working feature and an idea.

Where agriculture
meets a line of code.

I’m Harsha, an agriculture student and software developer. Rhizent is where I bring those two parts of my work together: learning from the land and building tools with care.

Harsha VardhanFounder & developer · BHU, Varanasi
More about the story
Good work grows together

Bring your curiosity.
Let’s build something useful.

We welcome agronomy researchers, mobile engineers, and people who know plants. Start with a conversation about one small, useful contribution.