Sharing Your Journey
Your garden records aren't just for you. When you share them, you contribute to a collective understanding of what works — where, when, and how.
Visibility Settings
Every activity and journal entry has a visibility setting:
- Workspace — only people in your workspace see it (default)
- Community — everyone in your Hub sees it
- Everyone — all Libre Grow users can see it
For this course's final assignment, we'll ask you to share at least one activity with the community. This is how the platform grows — real data from real growers.
Forking Methods
See a method that another grower created? You can fork it — create your own copy and adapt it for your conditions. Changed the composting ratio? Modified the no-dig layers? Fork the method, update the steps, and your version links back to the original. This is how knowledge evolves.
The Journal as Conversation
Journal entries aren't just notes — they're conversation starters. When you write about your planting, other growers can comment, ask questions, and share their experience. This is where Facebook-style social connection meets structured data.
The key difference: your journal entries are linked to activities and elements. When someone reads your journal entry about planting tomatoes, they can click through to see the seed lot, the bed, the soil test, the full provenance chain. That context makes the conversation richer.
What You've Built
Over 4 weeks, you've created:
- 8+ activities spanning design, soil testing, building, and planting
- 6+ elements — your site, beds, soil samples, compost/bed, seed lots, plants
- 20+ structured observations — pH, soil texture, temperatures, depths, areas
- A complete provenance chain from assessment through design through building to planting
- Journal entries documenting your thinking and decisions
This is data that no other platform gives you. Not Facebook, not Instagram, not a paper notebook. It's structured, connected, searchable, and comparable.
Next season, repeat the soil tests. Compare the results. See what changed. That's regenerative growing — observe, record, learn, improve. Season after season.
Welcome to Libre Grow.
Put It Into Practice
This is the final assignment. Plant something — anything — and connect it to everything you've built:
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Create a seed lot element (or use an existing one if you've already started tracking seeds)
- Type: Seed Lot
- Label: Include variety and year
- Description: Where you got the seeds
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Create a "Planting" activity
- Link the seed lot as input
- Link the bed as input
- Create a new plant element as output
- Add notes about spacing, depth, conditions
- Add a photo
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Write a journal entry
- What did you plant and why?
- What are your hopes for this season?
- Set visibility to Community or Everyone
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View the lineage of your new plant
- Click the Lineage button on the plant's element page
- You should see the full chain back to your site assessment in Week 1
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Explore the community
- Check the Explore page — can you find methods or activities from other growers?
- Star a method you'd like to try
- Comment on another grower's journal entry