Welcome to Libre Grow

Every garden is a living experiment. Every season teaches something. But without records, those lessons fade — you forget which variety thrived, when you planted, what the soil was like before you started composting.

Libre Grow turns your garden into a knowledge system. Not a chore, not a spreadsheet — a connected story where every activity links to what came before and what comes after. We call this provenance tracking, and it's the same approach used in scientific research to trace the complete history of any result.

What You'll Build in 4 Weeks

By the end of this course, you'll have:

• A site assessment documenting your garden's conditions
• A soil baseline with pH and texture data for each bed
• A built element (a no-dig bed or compost pile) with full records
• A planting linked back through the complete chain

Every piece connects. Your tomato plant links to the seed lot it came from. The bed links to the design activity that conceived it. The soil test links to the amendment that improved it. This is your garden's provenance — and it's data you can't get from Facebook, Instagram, or a paper notebook.

Getting Started

If you haven't already:

1. Create an account at the signup page
2. Create or join a Hub — this is your community (a household, garden club, or just you)
3. Create a Workspace — this is your project space where activities and journal entries live

Once you're logged in, you'll see your dashboard with tabs for your Hub and Workspace.

The Core Model

Everything in Libre Grow is either:

• An Element — a thing in your garden (a bed, a plant, a seed lot, soil, compost)
• An Activity — something you do (planting, testing, composting, harvesting, designing)

Activities take input elements and produce output elements. Observations are recorded along the way. The chain of Activity → Element → Activity → Element is your garden's history.

This is simpler than it sounds. You'll see in the next lesson.