Technology that serves farms around the world.
Heirloom democratizes AI for greener, more profitable farms.
Organic and regenerative farms do the hardest work in agriculture.
They keep the soil alive, grow forty crops in one season and sell through six channels at once, on margins most businesses would never accept. One missed planting date is a lost market week. And the tools they were given for all of this: a spreadsheet, a notebook and a good memory.
Mental load
Forty crops, hundreds of plantings and every date in your head. Nobody should have to carry the whole season.
Thin margins
A date slips, a market week is gone. Every week has to pay.
Few days off
The season does not pause. A week away is a luxury when the whole plan lives in one head.
At Heirloom, we want to show the world that small-scale farming is the answer to today's challenges.
We stopped waiting for someone else to build it.
For years we watched growers we admire wrestle with spreadsheets, lose their cool under pressure in the field and miss the margin that was right there. In 2021 we decided the crop planning tool of our dreams was not coming from anyone else. So we built it, on a farm outside Montreal, Canada, with the growers it was for.
What's in a name
Our roots are in the era when small market gardens fed every town in Europe. Heirloom carries those methods forward with technology, to replace mass agriculture with agriculture by the masses.
Built by growers, for growers
Our team comes from farming, education, technology and digital entrepreneurship. Our headquarters sit on a farm outside Montreal, Canada, in the middle of a community of growers.
Jean-Martin Fortier
Co-founder · Pioneering farmer, best-selling author
Fifteen years of bio-intensive market gardening, The Market Gardener translated into twelve languages, and the institute that trains growers in more than 90 countries.
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Jean-Philippe Bond
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
The engineer behind Heirloom: the farm graph, the crop map optimizer and the mobile app the crew carries into the field.
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Alexandre Limoges
CEO
Twenty years of building and running software companies, now leading Heirloom from the farm with one job: keep it simple.
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Built on a Canadian farm. Used in 55+ countries.
Boots on the ground: the team works from a real market garden, building for growers, by growers.
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