Open Data
Growing, climate, producing countries, nutrition and pairing data for food plants — free to download and reuse under CC BY 4.0.
532 rows — every crop in both Korean and English. Rebuilt daily as the guide grows.
License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Use it for anything, including commercially. Please credit Homiclub (homiclub.com).
What is not here
The classical Chinese text of the Dongui Bogam is not included. It is distributed by the Korean Medicine Classics DB under CC BY-NC, and our permission covers use on this site — not redistribution. Read those entries on the site instead.
Fields
slug- Stable identifier used in Homiclub URLs
lang- ko or en — each crop appears once per language
name- Common name in that language
scientific_name- Botanical name
category- leaf, fruit, root, bulb, grain, herb, tree, mushroom, sea…
difficulty- 1 easy · 2 moderate · 3 hard
propagation- How it is started (seed, transplant, bulb, spawn…)
sow_months- Sowing months, 1–12, comma separated (Northern Hemisphere)
harvest_months- Harvest months, same format
temp_opt_c- Optimum growing temperature range in ℃
temp_range_c- Temperature range it tolerates in ℃
hardiness- Hardy · Half-hardy · Not hardy · Tropical
daylength- Short-day · Long-day · Day-neutral, where it applies
producers- Producing countries with their role (origin, main, major, wild, historic)
producer_iso- ISO 3166-1 numeric codes for those countries
korea_grade- Where in Korea it is grown, if at all
nutrients- Notable nutrients with a short note
components- Compounds and what they do
good_pairings- Foods it goes well with
bad_pairings- Cautions and poor combinations
source- Where the entry was compiled from
url- The page this row came from
Notes
- Months are Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, shift by six months.
- Nutrition and compound notes describe composition. They are not medical claims.
- Some fields are empty where the concept does not apply — day length for a mushroom, for instance.