GroveKind
Guest view
A quiet look around the grove.
Try a check-in, meet today’s neighbour, peek at the collection and the shop, sit for twenty seconds, and see how the grove turns with the seasons. Nothing is saved, and nothing you do here will carry into an account later.
Goals to choose from
One habit to begin with, then a second when the first holds.
Every grove begins with a single goal, either something you want less of or something you want more of. Keep it for a week and you may take on another.
Leave behind
Something you want less of
- New gadgetsBuying tech you do not need
- Fast fashionOrdering clothes you barely wear
- Food wasteThrowing away food you bought
- Meat & dairyEating animal products every day
- No meatLeaving meat off the plate
- No dairyMilk, cheese and butter left behind
- AlcoholDrinking out of habit
- Short flightsFlying routes a train could take
- Single-use plasticBottles, bags and throwaway packaging
- Social mediaScrolling when you meant to rest
Grow
Something you want more of
- Strength trainingBuilding real strength, a little at a time
- More vegetablesSomething green with every meal
- Daily movementA walk, a jog — anything you move on purpose
In the guest view these are only a look at the list. Your goal is chosen when you make your own grove.
Today, for a moment
Low sun through the beech and silk on every gate, wanderer.
Friday 6 November
12days
A sample streak, just for the look.
This is a demonstration. Nothing is saved.
Today's neighbour
Cedar
the jay
“Look how far the ordinary days carried you.”
Lives in the tallest larch on the hill
Loves the view from the top, and the way down
A collection that grows quietly
Small things worth keeping.
First days
A season
A milestone
A keepsake from a traveller
Arrives with a short note, then waits to be passed on.
Badges, blossoms, keepsakes and soft companions gather here as the grove grows. In a guest view they stay a sample.
A quiet minute
Try a short sitting.
A twenty-second look
00:20
Nothing is planted in a guest grove.
In a real grove, every ten minutes you focus or meditate adds a flower to the field. This one adds nothing.
The grove shop
Small soft things, stitched with care.
Blossoms gathered from kept days can bring a stuffed companion to your shelf. Each one is made after a neighbour you meet in the grove.
A sample shelf
Hazel
Hedgehog
Pip
Robin
Bracken
Fox
Ollie
Tawny owl
3 blossoms bring one home.
In a guest grove the shelf stays a sample. Nothing is bought or kept.
The turning year
The grove changes with the seasons.
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Autumn now
Seed heads and low sun. The grove is putting things by.
Holidays in the grove
Christmas comes next, on 25 December. Holly and frost, and a little warmth kept back for the shortest days.
Seasons change the light and the small delights. Holiday nights bring their own glow, and travellers sometimes carry a keepsake for the occasion.
The BloomPhone
A whole phone, and not one app that wants you back.
Six small apps live on the little folding device. One of them is open to guests: MoleFit, the training log of a mole nobody in the grove has ever seen. The rest stay blurred until you have a grove of your own.
Nothing here wants your whole evening.
Tap MoleFit to open it
Five more apps wait behind a grove of your own.
Make a grove to unlock themThe sky above
Sometimes, the sky dreams too.
A rainbow finding its way into an ordinary day. A shooting star slipping through the hush of night. Little wonders, arriving in their own time.
About once every
two weeks
Someone on the path
Frieda, out for a walk.
“I am not a traveller, exactly. I am out for a walk, and I have found something.”
She brings whatever she has found and holds it up for you to admire. There is a catch, and the catch is Frieda.
The Good Stick
Her latest find · not for keeping
“It is the best stick. I checked. You may hold the other end.”
“Mine,” says Frieda.
She takes it gently out of your hands and trots off with it. Her socks are the only thing she ever lets go of. Everything else she finds, she keeps.
The honest reckoning
What this grove costs the planet
Every place online costs something: electricity, water to cool the machines, carbon from the grid. These are the figures for writing this one, the AI processing behind every line of it, worked out from what the grove weighs rather than metered.
- Energy
- 1.35 kWh
- Water
- 2.7 L
- Carbon
- 338 g
Carbon is counted as CO₂e, carbon dioxide with its other greenhouse gases folded into the same figure. An estimate, not a meter.
See the whole accounting