FrostSprout: I Built a Local AI Garden Assistant That Gets You Outside, Not Staring at a Dashboard

FrostSprout and Good Ground are local AI garden assistants created for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge. FrostSprout focuses on providing immediate physical actions to protect crops from frost without relying on dashboards. Similarly, Good Ground transforms frost dates, sunlight, and crop choices into weekly task lists. Both tools prioritize getting users outside. Good Ground runs locally via Ollama using the qwen2.5:1.5b model, requiring no gardening accounts or location sharing to function effectively.