Greenworks Farm Manager

I am a software engineer living in Kenya. On the side, I also love growing plants and raising animals for profit. I run a 2 acre farm with my bae in Western Kenya where we grow Black Nightshade for commercial purposes. I have been struggling with record keeping for a while and thought, why not just write software to make my life easier? So the journey began. I would like to track all expenses, sales, farm inspection notes, pesticides and weather. I have decided to open-source this application to give other budding farmers tested tools they need to succeed in commercial agriculture. The problems I face are a small subset to what other farmers may face, so I cannot promise an end to end solution that fits all agriculture operations... but, you are free to fork and add features to increase the richness of the application.

Running migrations

python manage.py makemigrations && python manage.py migrate

Loading seed data

python manage.py loaddata [fixture_name]

Run background queue

python manage.py qcluster

Run production server (Gunicorn)

gunicorn greenworks.wsgi:application --bind=0.0.0.0:9000

Activate venv

source ../python_venvs/greenworks/bin/activate

Fetching weather data periodically

This application pulls hourly weather data from Accuweather. Automatic data fetching has been implemented with django-crontab package with the following settings:-

CRONJOBS = [
    ('0 * * * *', 'weather.cron.fetch_latest_weather')
]

You can review the defined cronjob at weather/cron.py to understand more about how this feature works.

To insert this cronjob in the crontab utiliy on UNIX, please run the following command once:-

python manage.py crontab add

To see all active cron jobs, please run the following command:-

python manage.py crontab show