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Season 2027

Grow faster, grow smarter

Know when the low block is drying out or the canopy is staying wet, days before the vines show it. Each week you get one short, plain page with the call to make.

The Persephone's Basket sensor node with its leaf wetness sensor, antenna and canopy sensor
Leaves wet for 9 hours

Example alerts

The problem

The field is telling you something. Nobody is listening.

38%

Water overapplied

Typical extra water on a first season block before anyone changes a valve.

1 in 4

Beds underperforming

A rocky rise or a compacted low corner, quietly giving up fruit.

11 days

Late to notice

How long root zone stress runs before the canopy shows it.

$0

Spent on sensing

What most 20 acre family vineyards spend knowing what their soil is doing.

How it works

Three simple parts, working all season

The sensor node

01 · Sense

Nodes in your rows

Solar nodes read leaf wetness, canopy temperature and humidity, and soil moisture. Hung on the trellis wire or a pole.

The gateway at the barn

02 · Send

One box at the barn

Nodes pass readings by long range radio to one gateway on the barn's wifi. No wiring, no monthly fee per node.

An alert from the Persephone's Basket app: black rot infection likely, with what to check and what to do

03 · Decide

The call, on your phone

What happened, what to look for, and what to do next, in plain words.

The Persephone's Basket app showing a vineyard map with two nodes, node A8 at moderate risk, its air temperature and humidity, and a black rot alert

The app

Every block, at a glance

Your vineyard on a map

Each node sits on its block, colored by how much risk it sees right now.

Your rows, not the airport

Readings from the sensor in your canopy, side by side with local weather.

A plain call to act on

What is likely happening, what to check, and what to do before the next rain.

In the ground

Already working in New England rows

See the hardware
A Persephone's Basket node mounted on a trellis post among grape clusters
A node at fruit zone height in a working vineyard.

We've stood in 250+ of these rows. This is the tool we wished we'd had.

Charles

Co-founder and CEO, the person growers actually reach

“The advice it gives is super helpful.”
From one of our farms

Put nodes in your rows this season