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Steward Guide

A steward looks after a garden. You bring people in, make sure the right kinds of work can be recorded, review what gardeners submit, and look after the garden's shared funds. Your review is what turns a gardener's photos into a record other people can trust.

An open community workshop with shared tools, a task board and an empty planning table.

What you get:

  • One place to run the garden. Members, submissions, assessments, and funds sit together in the steward dashboard.
  • A clear queue. Work waits for you in one list, and nothing is approved without a person deciding.
  • A record that outlasts you. Every decision is saved with your reason, so the next steward can see what happened and why.

Where you work​

  • The steward dashboard, at admin.greengoods.app. It is best on a computer. The bar at the bottom holds its workspaces: Hub for reviews and records, Garden for the garden's profile and health, and Community for members and funds.
  • The Green Goods app, on your phone. You can review work there too, which helps when you are at the garden.

Before you change anything, look at the garden name at the top left of the dashboard. Everything you do applies to that garden.

The steward dashboard on the Hub workspace: the garden's name at the top left, the buttons Create Assessment, Create Hypercert, and Submit Work, the tabs Work, Confirm, Assessments, and Hypercerts, an empty review queue reading All caught up, and a bar at the bottom with Hub, Garden, and Community
Use the bottom bar to move between Hub, Garden and Community.

Get steward access​

You need access to at least one garden before the dashboard opens. There are two ways in: ask from inside the dashboard, or have someone who already runs the garden add you.

Before you start​

  • Use the account you use in the app. Access belongs to an account. A passkey account and a wallet are two different accounts.
  • Know the garden's name, or have a link to it.

Steps​

  1. Open admin.greengoods.app.
  2. Sign in. To use your passkey, tap Already have an account?, enter your account name, and tap Sign in with Passkey. To use a wallet, tap Connect Wallet. If you are new, tap Create Account.
  3. On the No garden access yet screen, tap Request Steward Access.
  4. Search for the garden by name, or paste its link or address, and pick it.
  5. Under Review Your Request, add a short note about how you plan to help. It is optional, and it helps the person deciding.
  6. Tap Send Request and sign the message. This is a signature, not a payment.
The Request Steward Access dialog for a garden named Comunidad Verde: under Review Your Request, the account that will receive access, an optional note box, a line saying access is granted only after a garden owner or steward assigns the role, a Check Status link, and the buttons Change Garden and Send Request
Your request waits until an owner or steward grants access.

Prefer to be added directly? Open your profile in the dashboard, copy your account address, and send it to a garden owner or steward. They can add you from Manage Members.

How you know it worked​

The request shows Pending review. Tap View Steward Request at any time to see it, Check Status to refresh it, or Withdraw to cancel it.

What happens next​

A garden owner or steward reviews your request in their dashboard and assigns the role. When they do, the request reads Steward access confirmed and the garden opens for you. Sending a request does not give access by itself.

If something goes wrong​

What you seeWhat to do
Steward requests are unavailable right nowRequests are switched off for the moment. Copy your account address from the same screen and send it to a garden owner or steward
Wallet requiredYou signed in with an email or social login, which the dashboard does not accept. Tap Sign Out & Connect Wallet, then use a passkey or a wallet
No steward request was found for this account and gardenYou are signed in to a different account than the one you asked with. Sign in with that one
Request declinedRead the reason shown beside it. You can ask again when the garden allows a new request
The request may have been savedTap Check Status before you send another one
Can't load garden accessA temporary problem reading the gardens. Tap Try Again in a moment

For what each role can do, see Roles in a garden.

Choose your next task​

Setting up a new garden​

Create a Garden and maintaining the shared action list require deployer access. These setup guides are under Builders → Reference. Ordinary stewards can choose their garden's areas of work without maintaining that list.

Using your own wallet

If you signed in with a passkey, Green Goods covers the network fees. If you connected your own wallet, each change is a transaction you pay for on the Arbitrum network, so keep a little ETH there.

Promises​

A garden starts with its people. Add your gardeners and fellow stewards, and decide who can join.