Purple Gold:
Engineering the Future
Building the world‘s first open-source, Agriculture 4.0 ecosystem for disease-free, rapid-growth Dioscorea Alata (Ube) in San Pablo, Laguna.
We are digitizing the 9-month harvest.
Join Passport Turtles in building the Philippines' first hyper-productive, AI-monitored Smart Ube Farm.
From soil to global superfood.
The Macro Thesis
Why Ube? Why Now?
The world is demanding natural, antioxidant-rich colorants.
Yet, traditional Ube farming suffers from a 13,000 MT supply gap due to disease and slow harvest cycles.
We are changing the math.
The Supply Gap
Local Philippine supply has faced deep deficits due to Anthracnose (fungal leaf blight), causing up to a 30% crop loss across traditional farms.
The 9-Month Protocol
Using biotech tissue culture instead of traditional tubers guarantees disease-free, identical clones that mature 25% faster with 95% yield rates.
Global "Next Matcha"
Rich in anthocyanins, Ube is transitioning from a dessert flavor to a global health superfood.
Our tech proves its antioxidant superiority.
The GitHub Readme & Open-Source Section
The Sandbox is Live.
We believe in radical operational transparency. The entire software architecture behind our automated Laguna greenhouse—from the ESP32 sensor ingestion pipelines to our predictive AI environmental models—is entirely open-source.
💡 Paid Members
Scan the live API, access raw telemetry streams, and run test optimizations remotely.
🧪 SME Stakeholders
Audit our structural codebase to track the exact climatic data validation of your reserved plantlets.
git clone https://github.com.git$ npm install @passportturtles/iot-core
✓ Operational parameters loaded successfully.
$ listening on port 8080 (Laguna_Node_01)...
Built by the Community,
For the Farmers.
Through Passport Turtles, we are crowd-sourcing the firmware and hardware protocols for our IoT nodes.
Transparent, forkable, and scalable.
🌱 Smart Ube Node Firmware
This repository contains the ESP32 firmware for the Passport Turtles Smart Ube Greenhouse Pilot in San Pablo, Laguna.
Features
- 7-in-1 Soil Sensor Data Polling
- LoRaWAN low-power transmission
- Automated Irrigation triggers
git clone https://github.com/passport-turtles/smart-ube-node.git
cd smart-ube-node
pio run -e esp32dev --target uploadA Letter from the Founder
When we founded Passport Turtles, we set out to build the world‘s largest community of AgTech builders.
We believed that Software Engineers and Data Scientists could fundamentally redesign how food is grown.
Today, we are putting our community‘s collective code to work on the ground.
Here in the Philippines, Ube is experiencing a massive global demand spike—yet local smallholders are facing devastating crop losses from field diseases.
We aren't waiting for massive venture capital firms to fix this.
We are bootstrapping a decentralized, open-source, Agriculture 4.0 sandbox right in San Pablo, Laguna.
By marrying sterile local biotechnology with open-source IoT automation designed by our global community, we are securing the future of 'Purple Gold.'
Whether you are a developer ready to push code, an SME securing your raw supply chain, or an early supporter backing our vision—welcome to the sandbox.
Let's build.
Gear Up.
Build Out.
Support the pilot by grabbing our exclusive "Violet & Volcanic Gold" Sandbox Merch.
100% of proceeds fund the tissue culture lab.
"The Builder" Tee
Deep Violet with Gold Code Snippets
"Node 01" Cap
Embroidered TuTu Mascot in Gold
The Capitalization Roadmap
Our path from bootstrap funding to the first data-driven harvest.
Phase 1: Lab & Node Setup (Current)
Fundraising ₱2.0M - ₱4.0M via F&F (Friends & Families) and SME (Small & Medium Enterprises) Stakeholders.
Establishing the tissue culture protocols at UPLB/San Pablo and building the first 10 open-source IoT nodes.
Phase 2: The Smart Greenhouse
Deploying the AI dashboard.
Agronomists translate sensor data into automated fertigation schedules.
Plantlets are transferred to soil.
Phase 3: "Ube Land" Harvest
Month 9.
The community event in Metro Manila.
Delivering the first batch of premium, disease-free Ube to our SME partners and crowdfunding backers.
Secure Your Stake
Join the ecosystem.
Whether you are a developer, a local business, or an angel investor,
there is a place for you in the pilot.
Founding Builder
For software engineers and tech enthusiasts.
- GitHub Repo Access
- Dev Governance Rights
- Data API Access
- Fractional Farm Investing
SME Partner
For cafes, bakeries, and local food businesses.
- 5% Pilot Equity
- Priority Harvest Contracts
- Farm Branding Rights
- Tech-Yield Reports
Guardian (F&F)
For angel investors and patient capital.
- Future Equity Conversion
- VIP "Ube Land" Invites
- Board Observer Status