SAGE (Software for Agricultural Ecosystems) is a collection of software applications that supports the public pursuit of sustainable agriculture, in cooperation with the Southern California sustainable agriculture community. This project was completed in 2019 and has not been developed since, though code base has been updated to modern package standards as of 2022.

The SAGE Plant Database is a database of plants used for grassroots or amateur agroecology design, including ethnobotanical, cultivation, morphological, and phenological data.

The SAGE Composer is be a design tool for creating sustainable polycultures (i.e., assemblages of complementary and mutually beneficial plant species, typically composed primarily of perennials) for personal use.

This research was funded by the NSF under Grant #1442749 CyberSEES: Type 1: Fostering Non-Expert Creation of Sustainable Polycultures through Crowdsourced Data Synthesis.

This was the dissertation project of Juliet Norton. It was a collaborative effort between Juliet Norton and Bill Tomlinson at the University of California, Irvine, Don Patterson at Westmont College, and Sarah Lovell at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne.

For questions and details, contact Juliet at [email protected]

Supervising Team for SAGE:

• Juliet Norton - Project Manager, HCD Research, Design, Front-end and Back-end development
• Bill Tomlinson - Project Advisor, NSF CyberSEES PI
• Don Patterson - NSF CyberSEES PI
• Sarah Taylor Lovell - NSF CyberSEES PI

Research and Development Team for SAGE Plant Database:

• Moin Aminnaseri - Back-end developer
• Dinorah Carrion - Back-end developer
• Daniel McInnis - Front-end developer
• Sahand Nayabaziz - Front-end designer
• Krisen Segismundo - Front-end developer

Research and Development Team for SAGE Composer:

• Sean Burke - Front-end developer
• Daniel McInnis - Research assistant
• Sahand Nayabaziz - Front-end designer
• Boyang Jack Pan - Content developer
• Anna Slykhouse - Content developer