Grow Together
Nobody needs a big garden to eat well. A few people nearby each grow something different, and swap what they have spare.
Your garden does not produce politely. It produces in gluts. Six lettuces in the same week, then nothing for a month. Meanwhile someone three streets over has forty tomatoes and no greens. Grow Together is the bit that fixes that.
How it works
What it costs, plainly
Joining a group
- Join any group you are invited to
- Choose which of your beds the group can see
- See what the others have spare, and what they are short of
- Post what you have going and take what you need
Starting a group
- Create the group and name it
- Invite people by email
- Remove members, and close the group when it has run its course
- Pro adds season coordination, so the group can split crops deliberately instead of all planting lettuce
One person needs a paid plan to open the group. Everyone else joins free and stays free. That is deliberate: a group of eight should not cost eight subscriptions.
So how do I actually join one?
Someone in the group sends you an invitation by email, and you open the link in it. That is the only way in, and it is on purpose. There is no public directory of groups and no way to browse or request to join a stranger’s group.
The reason is that this shares real information about your garden and roughly where you are. A swap only works with people you can drive to, and usually already know. Making groups searchable would turn that into something else entirely.
If nobody has invited you yet and you want to get one going, you need Starter or Pro to open the group, then you invite the others and they join for nothing. The full guide to starting a group, inviting neighbours and sharing beds is at Grow Together groups.
What the other members can and cannot see
Nothing of yours is visible until you turn it on. You share bed by bed, and you choose what each share exposes. You can turn any of it off again at any time and it disappears from their view.
Your exact address is never shared. Other members see a suburb, so they know whether you are close enough for a swap to be worth it.
What an invitation link does, and how long it lasts
An invitation is single use and tied to the email address it was sent to. Opening it joins you to that one group and then the link is spent. An unused invitation lasts 14 days; if yours has expired, ask whoever invited you for a fresh one.
If you do not have an account yet, the link walks you through creating a free one and then joins you. You do not need to pay to accept an invitation, now or later.
Grow Together
Nobody needs a big garden to grow real food. If a few people nearby each grow something different, and swap what they have spare, everyone eats better off the same patch of dirt.
Sign in to start a group or accept an invitation.