Questions
These are the questions people ask, each answered once.
When does it open?
Not yet. It opens later this year or early next. Leave your email on the front page and you will hear the day it does.
What does it cost?
That is decided at launch, and it will be on this site before anyone is asked for anything. The sample garden is open to click through now, with no sign-in.
Where is my garden kept?
In your browser, on your computer. If the browser clears its data, the garden goes with it, so save a backup file from Settings and keep it somewhere safe. A backup file restores on any computer.
Does it work on a phone?
It is built for a computer screen for now. It opens on a phone, and a phone version that fits the screen is being built.
Does it work outside the US?
Frost dates and summer temperatures are looked up by US ZIP code, so that part works in the US only for now. Anywhere else, type your own frost dates under Settings and yours are used instead.
Where do the numbers come from?
From published research rather than from anybody's opinion, and when the app raises something with you it names the source rather than asking you to take its word for it. The app lists its sources by name under Settings.
Why no reminders?
The whole point is to carry things for you. An app that nags you about what you have not done is just one more thing to keep up with. It is quiet until it has something you need to know.
Is it only for vegetable beds?
Beds and rows of anything you plant, and the perennials that stand for years: herbs, strawberries, berries, garlic, asparagus. Orchard trees are not in it.
What is coming next?
The roadmap lists what is being built now and what is planned, without dates. What Broadfork does today is on Features.
How was it built?
With AI assistance, checked by someone who grows the crops it makes claims about. The whole answer is at the foot of the About page.
Something is wrong, or I have a question
Press Report a problem on the left of any screen in the app, or write to support@broadfork.app.