A fictional pod with a real season behind it
Pick a pair of boots
Everybody here belongs to Lynden House — a third of an acre behind a house in Boulder, with goats, a well and a greenhouse. Work days have been held, hours confirmed, shares earned, and the season goal is part-funded. Step in as any of them; nothing you do here is real.
It's your land
Who's on the roster, who's asking to join, and what the season costs.
Owns Lynden House and the third of an acre behind it, and wants help with the beds without handing over her keys.
You run the day
Open up, teach the well, sign off the hours, get paid for it.
Runs the Saturday work day at Lynden House: opens up, teaches the well, and signs off everyone's hours.
You do the work
Come on your own inside the hours, earn shares, take home a glut.
Comes most Saturdays, has her own key hours now, and takes home a bag of whatever got away from the beds.
Turns up for the heavy jobs, keeps the mower running, and never leaves before the tools are back on their hooks.
Master gardener four decades deep, who would rather teach a canning day than be thanked for one.
Has the truck, the trailer and the chipper, and shows up the morning the hedge pile finally gets dealt with.
You're new to this
Turn up to a class or a work day and find out what a well pump is.
Lives in an apartment with no balcony, knows nothing yet, and mostly wants her hands in some dirt.
Signed up late for the garlic planting and is first on the waiting list if somebody drops out.
Widowed last spring and looking for a table to sit at on a Sunday as much as a row to weed.
You teach
Publish a course, book a class at somebody's place, sell a ticket.
Teaches around the network rather than at one place, and wrote the Relational Gardening course.
You chipped in
You don't have time, but you have $500 and a neighbourhood.
Lives three streets over, has never picked up a fork here, and put five hundred dollars into the season anyway.
Every address here ends in @demo.backyardfarm.network, which this app refuses to send real mail to. Back to the story