The pitch: Helping to connect local gardening clubs with new members. There are lots of gardening clubs in my community that give people a space to make their own garden to grow food and connect with their environment. With Bloom you can connect with your local community gardens

Growing up I saw lots of gardens in my community where people could get together and grow their own fresh foods. I always wanted to join one so that I could grow fresh food for my family and learn more about agriculture. The problem was that you usually needed to know somebody who organized a community garden in order to get your own farm plot. We wanted to make Bloom to help people connect to their local gardens and grow roots in their community.

Bloom helps people find local community gardens and connect with them by sharing pictures and posts. Users are able to find local gardens using their zip code to search their area for gardens. After users find a local garden they can read a description of the garden and use the address of the garden to see where the garden is located.

We used HTML and CSS to build the front end of our web page. The backend of our web page was built using the Python based web framework Flask.

Coming in to Rose Hack 2022 our team had a lot of experience in making the front end of websites with CSS and HTML but we did not know a lot about designing the backend of websites. With the advice of our mentor Ryan Yang we used the Python based web framework Flask to develop the backend of our website. Quickly learning how to use Flask and then integrating it into our website was difficult but we learned a lot from it and it was really exciting to learn a new framework.

Coming into Rose Hack 2022 most of our group had not ever made a website before and did not know a lot about working on a fast paced project. However after 24 hours we were all able to contribute to making a website.

Working on the Bloom website we were all able to learn new skills to help contribute to our goal of making a website. We had more knowledge working with front end than the back end of websites but we still needed to learn how to work in a face paced development environment. Working on the backend was almost entirely new to us so we needed to learn flask quickly in order to develop the backend of our website.

Connecting users to their community gardens is just the start for Bloom! In the future we hope to add more features to Bloom that will allow users to make posts in their community garden page and make pages for users to share their produce and equipment.

The file with our code is bloom.zip. :)