The Pipling Project
Pipling helps you discover your own way into gardening, or care for the plants and spaces you already have, with guidance that meets you where you are.
iPhone app coming soon
Android app coming soon
Pip exploring a tomato garden
Maybe this sounds familiar
Interest can hide behind old assumptions, limited space, pests, time, or the feeling that gardening belongs to someone else.
What might be getting in the way?
“I don’t have a green thumb.”
“I don’t have the space.”
“Gardening isn’t for me.”
“I’ll probably kill it.”
“I don’t have the time.”
You do not have to argue with those thoughts today. Pipling can begin by understanding where they came from and what, if anything, already makes you curious.
Pip meets you where you are
Begin with what you enjoy, notice, or wonder about. Pip can help you explore flowers, food, wildlife, public gardens, family activities, or your own yard without pushing you to plant before you are ready.
See how Pip helps you begin →Go straight to practical support. Organize plants and spaces, understand what needs attention, track supplies such as fertilizers, treatments, and soil amendments, and get guidance grounded in your actual garden.
See practical garden support →Meet Pip
Pip pays attention to your plants and spaces, weather, light, season, changes, preferences, and readiness. Then Pip helps you decide what matters now and what can wait.
The real product
Real screens from the redesigned Pipling app, shown with Mo’s own garden and yard.
Beyond the iPhone
See today’s useful garden actions, check off what you did, and hear when nothing needs you.
Watch Pip’s films and short stories from the garden on the biggest screen in the house.
Why it matters
A connection with the living world can support wellbeing, movement, learning, relationships, and biodiversity. We present the research with context and without miracle claims.
Time with plants can offer calm, attention, and room to recover from stress.
Gardening can create useful movement, sensory engagement, and reasons to spend time outside.
Many small gardens can add up to habitat, food, shade, and healthier shared landscapes.
Our story
I studied agronomy, then spent twenty-five years in software and let most of that knowledge disappear. When I returned to gardening, I did not return as an expert. I returned with depression, anxiety, ADHD, an unfinished yard, and a rose garden that somehow took two months.
The garden did not keep score. Plants waited, changed, recovered, and sometimes surprised me. Pipling grew from the companion I needed: patient, attentive, and able to help me choose one useful next step.
Read Mo’s story →Your way in can begin wherever you are
Pipling is also available on the web.
iPhone app coming soon
Android app coming soon
