The land you love, on a page you can plan on.
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.
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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, and come back tomorrow to adjust it without feeling like you've wasted anything.
What hobby farmers tend to plan
Garden & orchard layout
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 guessing game.
Chicken & small-stock infrastructure
Coop placement (think about predator sightlines, prevailing wind, and morning sun), paddock rotation for laying flocks, runs and fencing, feed stores.
Workshop & storage
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.
Water & drainage
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.
Forest garden / food forest
Layered planting plans with canopy / understorey / shrub / herb / ground-cover / root / vine layers. Sketch the canopy first; everything else follows the shade map.
Pasture & rotational grazing
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.
Why the Free tier is enough for most hobby farmers
Every tier gets the same 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 room to grow: 50 items per plan instead of 10, and up to 20 plans instead of 2, so this year's garden layout and next year's don't have to compete for the same cap.
Sharing works on every tier. Want your partner, a permaculture mentor, or the fencer to look at your plan? Send them a view-only link; they open it in their browser, no account needed. To have someone edit alongside you, invite them by email instead - a Pro feature and up - and Can view versus Can edit depends on their own subscription. You can turn off a link whenever you like.
Find your place.
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