A hobby farm is a long conversation with the land. PLOT is built for the kind of planning that happens over a cup of tea on a Saturday morning . laying out the chicken coop, marking next year's orchard rows, deciding where the herb spiral goes, and changing your mind cheaply when you do. Free, runs in your browser.
Apply for beta accessWe call this the hobby-farm tier because the planning rhythm is different on three acres than it is on three hundred. You probably have a vegetable garden, a fruit-tree orchard or two, chickens, maybe a few goats or alpacas, a shed that's gradually turning into a workshop, a polytunnel you've been meaning to build, and a fence that needs replacing in sections rather than redoing the lot.
The decisions are smaller and more frequent than on commercial acreage, and the consequences of getting one wrong are usually a lost season of growth or a weekend re-doing what you just did. PLOT's free tier (no card needed) means you can sketch a layout, walk away, sleep on it, come back tomorrow and adjust without sunk-cost anxiety.
Vegetable beds with rotation labels, polytunnels, fruit trees and berry rows, herb spirals, comfrey patches, perennial guilds. Track what's where so next year's rotation isn't a forensic-archaeology exercise.
Coop placement (think about predator sightlines, prevailing wind, and morning sun), paddock rotation for laying flocks, runs and fencing, feed stores.
The shed-that-is-becoming-a-workshop, the polytunnel, the chicken feed store, the hayshed if you have stock. Mark the things you have; draw the things you're planning.
Header tanks, rain catchment, drip-line routes, greywater systems, bog gardens. The water plan deserves its own drawing layer because it's usually the constraint everything else bends around.
Layered planting plans with canopy / understorey / shrub / herb / ground-cover / root / vine layers. Sketch the canopy first; everything else follows the shade map.
Small-scale rotational paddocks for a few sheep, alpacas, or a house cow. The polygon tool with live area makes "how many days per cell" arithmetic a one-look exercise.
Every tier gets the same Maxar Vivid 30cm satellite imagery, so you're not making decisions against a downgraded basemap. The view that shows your chicken coop, your shed, your orchard rows, and your driveway is the same on Free as on Pro.
Where Pro pays back on a hobby farm is version history, being able to see what last year's rotation looked like while you're planning this year's.
Pro also unlocks sharing. Want your partner, a permaculture mentor, or the fencer to look at your plan? Pro accounts can invite anyone via a private link. If your collaborator is on Pro they can edit alongside you; on Free they view the plan in read-only mode. You can revoke the share whenever you like.
Find your place.
Free, runs in your browser. Start with the address you already know.
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