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Create a Garden

A garden is the home for one community's work: its people, its records, and its funds. This page is for the person who sets a new one up.

The Create Garden form in the steward dashboard, with the Garden details section showing fields for the name, location, ENS subdomain, description, and optional banner image

Not everyone can create a garden. It needs deployer access, which the Green Goods team gives out. If you want a garden for your community and do not have that access, ask in the Green Goods community on Discord. If your garden already exists, skip to Manage Members.

Before you start​

Have these ready so you can finish in one sitting:

  • Deployer access on the account you sign in with.
  • A name for the garden, and where it is.
  • A short description of the community and its work.
  • The areas of work the garden covers: Solar, Agroforestry, Education, or Waste. Pick only the ones it really does. They decide which actions its gardeners can record.
  • A banner image, if you have one. It is optional.
  • Your first stewards and gardeners, as account addresses or names ending in .eth. This is optional too. You can add people later.
  • A connection. The form saves your progress as you type, and creating the garden needs you online.

Steps​

1. Open the form​

  1. Sign in to the steward dashboard at admin.greengoods.app.
  2. Tap the search button at the top, or press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac), and choose Create Garden.

If you do not have a garden yet, the No garden access yet screen has its own Create Garden button.

The form is one page with three numbered sections.

2. Fill in Garden details​

  1. Enter the Garden name.
  2. Enter the Location.
  3. Check the ENS subdomain. The form suggests one from the name. It becomes the garden's short web name, ending in .greengoods.eth, so keep it simple.
  4. Write the Description.
  5. Add a Banner image if you have one.
  6. Under Action domains, choose the areas of work.

3. Add your first team​

  1. Under Stewards, paste an address or name and tap Add. Repeat for each steward.
  2. Do the same under Gardeners.

Stewards can already do everything a gardener can, so you do not need to add them to both lists. You can leave both lists empty.

Planned team members contains one steward and two gardeners and explains that grants must be verified after creation.
Verify these planned members’ roles in Garden Members after creation.

4. Review and create​

  1. Read Review & deploy. It shows everything you entered.
  2. Fix anything that looks wrong. A new garden starts as Invite only. You can open it up afterwards.
  3. Tap Deploy Garden and confirm.
  4. Keep the page open until it finishes.
Riverside Commons Garden review shows Invite only and its planned gardeners and steward.
Check Invite only and the planned team before deploying.

How you know it worked​

  • A message says Garden created.
  • The dashboard takes you to the Garden workspace.
  • If you added people, a second message asks you to Verify planned members.

You are the garden's first owner.

What happens next​

You act next. The garden exists, and it is empty and closed.

  1. Check the team. Open Community and confirm the people you added are listed with the right roles. See Manage Members.
  2. Decide who can join. The same page shows how to turn on open joining.
  3. Check the garden's funds. A new garden normally comes with a shared fund and an endowment already in place. If Community shows that either is missing, ask the Green Goods team.

If something goes wrong​

What you seeWhat to do
Unauthorized when you open the formYour account does not have deployer access. Ask the Green Goods team
A field is marked as requiredFill it in. The garden name, location, ENS subdomain, description, and at least one domain are all needed
This name is already takenChange the ENS subdomain to something else
You're offlineReconnect, then tap Deploy Garden again. What you typed is still there
Cannot deploy yetThe form does not think it is complete. Check every field in section 01, then try again. If every field is filled and it still appears, tell the Green Goods team
Transaction canceledYou closed the confirmation. Nothing was created. Tap Retry Deployment when you are ready
Awaiting wallet executionYour wallet accepted the request and it has not finished. Open your wallet and approve or finish it there, then tap Check confirmation. Do not deploy a second time while this one is waiting
Transaction failedRead the message under it, then tap Retry Deployment. With your own wallet, the usual cause is not enough ETH for the fee
A person you added is not listed afterwardsGive the list a moment to catch up. If they are still missing, add them from Manage Members
Using your own wallet

Creating a garden is one transaction on the Arbitrum network. It can include a small fee for registering the garden's web name, so the account you create it from needs some ETH there.

Next step​

The garden exists. Now add its people and decide who can join.