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Join a Garden

A garden is a community doing regenerative work together, such as a solar team, a clean-up crew, a tree-planting group, or a class. Joining tells the app which community your work belongs to, so the right steward can review it.

A person holds a tray of seedlings beside growing beds and a wooden fence.

Every garden decides how people get in. Some are open to anyone. Others let a steward approve each person. This page covers both.

Before you start​

  • Install the app and create your account. See Install and Update.
  • Know which garden you are joining. Ask your steward for its exact name if you are not sure. Some gardens have similar names.
  • Be online. Joining needs a connection.
  • Use one account. Your membership belongs to the account that joined. If you sign in a different way later, the app treats you as someone new.

Steps​

1. Find the garden​

  1. Open Green Goods and go to Explore Gardens. It lists every garden. Until you pick a garden, it is on Home: the button under Find Your Garden, or the last row under Choose a Garden. Once Home shows a garden, tap that garden's name at the top of Home, then Explore Gardens.
  2. To see only gardens anyone can join, tap the filter button at the top of the list, then choose Open gardens in the Filter Gardens sheet.
  3. Tap the garden to open it. Check the name and location before you go on.
Filter Gardens with All gardens selected, My gardens and Open gardens below it, followed by domains and sorting choices.

Choose Open gardens to find gardens anyone can join.

If a steward sent you a link, open it and tap Open This Garden in the App.

2. Join it​

What you see on the garden's page tells you which path to take.

Using your own wallet

If you signed in with a passkey, Green Goods covers the network fee for joining an open garden. If you signed in with your own wallet, joining is a transaction you pay for, on the Arbitrum network, so keep a little ETH there. Sending a request to join has no fee.

If you see Join Garden. The garden is open.

  1. Tap Join Garden.
  2. Read the message: you will join as a gardener and can submit work right away.
  3. Tap Join, then confirm when your phone asks.
The Join Garden sheet: the message You'll join Green Goods Community Garden as a gardener and can submit work right away, above a Join button and a Cancel button

Check the garden’s name before choosing Join.

If you see Request to Join. A steward approves each person.

  1. Tap Request to Join.
  2. Add a short note saying who you are. It is optional, and it helps the steward recognize you.
  3. Tap Send Request, then confirm when your phone asks. There is no fee.

If you see neither. Ask a steward to add you.

  1. Open Profile and stay on the Account tab.
  2. Find Account ID and tap Copy.
  3. Send that ID to your steward, in the chat your garden already uses. Send the one from the app, not an address from another wallet you own.

How you know it worked​

  • Join Garden: a message says Successfully joined garden, and Home opens in the garden you joined.
  • Request to Join: your request reads Request waiting for approval. Tap Request to Join again at any time to see it.
  • Added by a steward: the garden appears under Profile, in My gardens.

In every case, a garden you belong to shows up in My gardens on your Profile, and in the list of gardens when you start to submit work.

What happens next​

  • You joined an open garden. Nobody else needs to act. You can submit work now.
  • You sent a request. A steward of that garden reviews it. Green Goods does not send you an alert, so come back to the garden's page and tap Check Request Status. It will read Welcome to the garden once you are in, or This request was declined with the steward's reason. You can Withdraw Request at any time and send a new one later.
  • You asked a steward to add you. The steward adds your Account ID from their side. Check My gardens after they tell you it is done.

If something goes wrong​

Joining fails​

Failed to join garden: check your connection and try again. This can also appear if you cancel your wallet or passkey confirmation. If it keeps failing, the garden may have closed open joining or reached its limit, so ask the steward.

You are already a member of this garden: nothing to fix. Go ahead and submit work.

There is no join button​

Check My gardens first. You may already be a member. If you are not, the garden may take members only through a steward. Send the steward your Account ID.

If you only see the public website, tap Open This Garden in the App, or open Green Goods from your home screen and find the garden in Explore Gardens.

Your membership is missing or in the wrong garden​

If the steward cannot find you, send the Account ID shown in the app again. It is easy to send a different address by mistake.

If you joined the wrong garden, tell that garden's steward, then join the right one. You can belong to more than one garden. Submit each piece of work to the garden that will review it.

If you joined but the garden is missing when you submit work, wait a few seconds, then leave the Garden tab and open it again. Your membership shows at once, and the list of gardens catches up shortly after.

Still stuck? Ask the community in Discord.

Next step​

You are in. Now document something you did so a steward can review it.