About U-Pick Manager

Bill Lensmire

Bill Lensmire is the creator of U-Pick Manager. Bill grew up on a farm in northeast Wisconsin (South of Luxemburg in Kewaunee County) and has a degree in Computer Science/Mathematics from Carroll College. (This was in the days of mainframe computers and 8086/8088 computers :) Like many of you, Bill spent many years working in a Dilbert cubical. He has worked for companies like GE Medical Systems and Agfa Healthcare along with other startups. Bill, along with his wife, have a small farm in southern Wisconsin (zone 5b) in the Town of Ixonia where they are developing a U Pick Market Garden growing vegetables, flowers, herbs and fruit trees for their local community. All of their food will be grown in a regenerative manner without using any pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides.

Bill has a passion for growing food and helping others grow food in a sustainable and regenerative way that helps to have a long and healthy life. He is a Christian and follows the teachings of Jesus, the Son of God, and tries his best to live by the Words of Christ: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these."

History of U-Pick Manager

Bill is starting his U Pick Market Garden from scratch. U-Pick Manager was written during the winter of 2025 because he needed a better way to plan his U Pick Market Garden. He started out using excel to plan and manage his garden, but it became brittle and error-prone when he had a lot of data and complex relationships. U-Pick Manager is a Django web application that allows you to plan and manage your U Pick Market Garden in a easy, efficient and error-free way.

Available Features:
  • ToDo Lists and Tasks
  • Plant & Variety Management
  • Garden Bed Management
  • Annual Produce Harvest Planning
  • Indoor Seed Planting and Transplanting date management
  • Calendar with PDF Export
  • Garden Log with Photo and PDF upload
Future Features:
  • Online Help
  • Perennial Plant Management (fruit trees, berry bushes, etc.)
  • Activity Tracking (i.e. logging by date when you planted, weeded, harvested, etc.)
  • Cover Crop Management
  • Foliar Spray Management
  • Soil & Plant Mineral Management
  • Comprehensive reporting