The Story
You didn't start growing to babysit a thermometer.
You started because there is something quietly extraordinary about coaxing life from a seed.
The first green shoot breaking through dark soil. The smell of a greenhouse in full growth.
The satisfaction of a harvest you raised with your own hands.
But greenhouses are unforgiving. A warm afternoon that tips into a scorching afternoon.
A vent left closed on a humid night. A crop that looked fine on Tuesday and was lost by Thursday.
Every grower knows that feeling. The one that arrives too late.
"What if your greenhouse could think for itself — so you never had to worry about it again?"
That question is exactly why Lichen exists.
What Is Lichen
The intelligent system that never sleeps.
Lichen is a complete greenhouse intelligence platform. It lives on your network, connects
wirelessly to sensor nodes placed throughout your growing spaces, and monitors everything —
temperature, humidity, ventilation, light levels, soil moisture — around the clock,
in real time.
And it doesn't just watch. It acts.
When temperatures climb too high, Lichen opens your vents — automatically, precisely, without you
needing to be there. When conditions return to the right range, it closes them again.
It adapts to your greenhouse, learns its rhythms, and keeps your plants in the environment
they need to thrive.
All of it visible, at a glance, on any phone, tablet, or computer. Wherever you are.
Beyond the Sensors
A complete growing companion — from seed to harvest.
Lichen isn't only about keeping your greenhouse at the right temperature. It's about giving
you a single, intelligent home for everything that goes into growing well.
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Seed Vault
Your complete seed library, always at hand. Log every variety you grow — family, sowing windows, days to maturity, germination time, cost per pack, and notes. Import your existing collection from a spreadsheet in seconds.
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Crop Logging
Track every crop through its full lifecycle — from the day you sow, through germination and planting out, all the way to harvest. A living record of everything you've grown, season by season.
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Harvest Records
Record harvest weights and cumulative yields across multiple picks. See your most productive varieties at a glance. Over time, Lichen helps you make smarter decisions about what to grow.
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Seed Cost Tracking
Know exactly what each crop costs you to grow. Lichen captures the seed cost at the moment you sow, so your records stay accurate even if prices change later.
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Sow Planner
See at a glance what's ready to sow each month, drawn directly from your Seed Vault. Plan your growing calendar with confidence.
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Multiple Growing Spaces
Running a greenhouse, a coldframe, and a seedbed? Lichen handles them all as separate farms — each with their own sensors, crops, and controls.
Everything in one place. Your crops, your seeds, your costs, your climate —
all connected, all telling the same story. The story of how you grow.
The Experience
Picture a Tuesday morning.
You're not in the greenhouse. You're at work, or having breakfast, or still in bed.
It doesn't matter — because Lichen is already there.
It noticed the overnight temperature dropped. It closed the vents at 2 AM to hold the warmth in.
By 7 AM, the sun had returned and temperatures were climbing. The vents opened, precisely on cue.
Your seedlings slept soundly. Your tomatoes are perfectly comfortable.
You didn't have to do a thing.
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You open the Lichen app with your morning coffee. The dashboard shows a clean green status —
everything nominal. A gauge confirms 22°C inside. Humidity sitting at 68%. Three crops
are coming up on their expected germination dates this week. A reminder, quietly, to check them.
You close the app. You go about your day. Lichen keeps watch.
Who It's For
Built for growers who take it seriously.
Whether you tend a single hobby greenhouse or manage multiple growing spaces,
Lichen is built to grow with you. It suits the passionate home grower who wants
to stop losing crops to a hot afternoon — and the dedicated smallholder who needs
to know their seedbeds are safe, even when they can't be there.
Lichen doesn't require an engineering degree to set up. It doesn't demand subscriptions,
cloud fees, or a data plan. It runs on your network, on your terms, under your roof.
Your data stays yours.
"The growers who care most about what they grow deserve a system that cares just as much."
That's the promise Lichen is built on. Every feature, every sensor reading, every automated
decision — in service of one simple goal: helping you grow better, with less worry,
and more joy.
The Close
Your greenhouse deserves more than guesswork.
Every plant you've ever lost to a closed vent, a hot afternoon, or a cold night you didn't
catch in time — that's the problem Lichen was made to solve.
Not by making growing more complicated. By making it effortless.
By putting intelligent, always-on control within reach of every grower — not just those
with the time or the tools to monitor everything manually.
The seeds you've chosen. The seasons you've planned. The harvests you're working towards.
Lichen is there, every hour of every day, making sure nothing stands in their way.
LICHEN
Intelligent Greenhouse Control · Always Watching · Always Growing
lichen.local — your greenhouse, intelligently controlled
