Roadmap

This page lists what is being built now, what is planned next, and what comes later.

There are no dates here. A line goes on this page when the work is actually planned, and it moves to Features when you can use it in the sample garden. Later is further out, and a line there may change shape before it is built.

Being built

• A phone held upright. A view built for the garden in your hand: what needs doing today, your beds, one bed, and logging a pick or a note.

Planned

• Planting from your inventory. Seeds and plants you hold go straight into a bed, and the count is kept.
• Splitting a planting on a date. Take up part of a planting to free its ground, and keep the record of both halves.

Later

• A main plan for each bed. The one plan you mean to plant there each year. A crop set to follow another then says when the first is out and warns you if it goes in too soon, and the plan raises its own tasks.
• A planting calendar. What is due to go in and when, from each bed's main plan and from plantings dated ahead on the map.
• Planting on a cue. Date one planting from another's progress, such as beans a week after the corn shows its first true leaves.
• A crop's name starts a planting. Click a crop's name and Add planting opens with that crop already chosen.
• A ring planting. One line of plants set a distance in from every edge of a bed, such as onions around a bed of melons.
• Sun and shade, and more structures. How much sun each bed gets and the shade a structure throws, said while you place a crop; a high tunnel; and compost bins and rain barrels on the map.
• Real weather. Broadfork plans from your area's long-run climate averages today. Real weather and forecasts would come in beside them, for everything that should follow the weather.
• Timing by warmth. Growing degree days, so a crop's pace is counted in warmth as well as in daylight.
• Notes on a whole bed, and photos. An observation about a bed or the whole garden, not only about one planting, and photos kept with your notes.
• Naming a volunteer. When a plant comes up on its own, the crops and varieties that grew on that ground in earlier years are offered to pick from, with "I don't know" still a choice.
• Help from a photo. Send a picture of a plant or a pest and get help naming it, and an assistant you can ask about your garden.
• Tools and supplies. Fertilizers and tools in your inventory, beside the beds, plants and pests it already holds.
• Works with no internet. Broadfork installed as an app that opens and runs with no connection at all.

What Broadfork does today is on Features, and the sample garden is open to click through, with no sign-in. To hear when Broadfork opens, leave your email.