About

rizomanet connects people who look after land with people who would like to help. What it is Hosts are people with land: farms, orchards, market gardens, woodland, community projects. They post work days, such as a harvest, a planting day or a building weekend, and keep a list of jobs that need doing whenever someone can. Volunteers say what they can do and when, sign up, and get in touch. Along the way, everyone shares food, knowledge and company. Why Small farms and land projects often need more hands than they have, at particular moments of the year. Many people would love to help, learn and spend time on the land, but don't know where to start or whom to ask. rizomanet brings them together. It is built on trust, not on strangers and ratings. You join because someone who knows you invited you. You can see who has met whom in person. Your contact details stay inside the network, and you decide who sees them. It is mutual aid, not a marketplace. No money changes hands through the site, nothing is sold and there are no adverts. What makes it different There is no central server and no company behind it. rizomanet runs on a few small computers at the farms themselves, and each one holds a copy of the network. When a farm's internet is down, people there can still use it, and the changes travel between farms later: over the internet, on a USB stick, and in future by radio. Your information stays with the community. There is no tracking and no advertising, and you can download or delete everything about you at any time. It is free and open-source software, so any group can run it for itself. Who rizomanet is part of Zavod Rizoma's Permatech initiative, instigated by Maja Pan and Rob Canning. Joining Membership is by invitation. If you'd like to join, ask someone who is already a member. For details, see "how it works" at the bottom of every page. Built with free and open-source software. Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors.