Thrive video script

What is the community? how this is a movement now

Welcome to Thrive, a online urban garden. This community project facilitates a 2 acre plot for some 40 members. There are many different points of entry and levels of participation. All can learn to grow in Thrive no matter age, experience or knowledge.

Who are the individuals?

There are professionals, novices, single gardeners, groups and families. The online community facilitates group interaction, physical help and education and shared knowledge on mobile devices, like the iPhone and iPad. These digital solutions serve individual needs helping to build a greater sense of community.

Lauren

Lauren is married with two children. She has gardened for 12 years in her own back yard and now is a part of the Thrive community. Lauren prefers to garden a small plot on her own but enjoys being part of a larger community of people who care for the earth. She keeps all her tools in the community shed where people can borrow them by logging in to the hub or by communicating via a mobile device.

When Lauren is out in the garden she is able to see all her tools at a glance on her phone. If she takes something new to the garden she can also photograph it and upload it before placing it in the community tool shed. If she needs an item she doesn’t have while out in the garden, like gloves for her kiddies, she can do a search and find exactly what she needs without walking to the shed. If she finds what she’s looking for she can borrow them without even calling the owner.

Now let’s say Lauren is at home and she’s planning to go to the garden the next day. Maybe he wants to borrow a spade. She can use the website to search, find the tool she likes by reading user comments and borrow, this time from Sandy. If she needs other tools she doesn’t have she can see who owns what and search for something else, like a watering can. The website will even tell her specifications of each tool before she borrows it.

Dave

Meanwhile, in another part of the city, Dave and his friends are wanting to start a garden plot. They are fed up with eating fast food and want to share a garden space to grow their own food. Using the hub they can find out who gardens where according to knowledge level. Being a novice Dave would like to set up near some pros. He can claim their plot by naming it right from his own front room.

Dave and his group can even log in to their plot when they’re out and about using an iPad. They can claim other plots if they need them plus, they can put vegetables in place where they planted by dragging and dropping them. This will then give you alerts on when to water or what might be eating your plants. Wether they’re at home or mobile, the hub and the iPad offer Dave and his team a great resource to see what’s happening with their new garden. 

Conclusion

The Thrive community benefits all its members in many different ways; the hub allows users to see what’s going on in the garden when the weather is bad; you definitely don’t need to own all the tools with a shared community like this and knowledge and even if your knowledge is minimal, you can shack up near someone who knows everything. The online solutions definitely facilitate a greater sense of togetherness in the gardening world.

By joining Thrive you will not only be exposed to a new world of eating healthy food because you’re growing it, you will meet other like minded people and your work load will be halved!


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