Six things, five systems, one screen.
The long version of the dashboard: every holding, what state it is in, what happens to it next and which system the number came out of.
Everything, with the bars.
What you hold
Patch B2 — Curdle Hill, winter wheatDrilled 14 October · 25kg of flour at harvest Growing Cask #0231 — the quarter, first-fill American oak125 litres · filled at 63.5% · out in 2029 In bond The Larder BoxMonthly · next dispatch the 3rd · skip by the 28th Active Foster — one ewe, through lambingFrom January · wool, a name and the updates Lambing Ploughing On — £15 a monthSince March 2024 · renews on the 12th Paid Hoarding — 4,180 bushelsEarned across the shop, the brewery and the pub £41.80Next through the door
Track itThe year ahead
- Late SeptemberThe patch grid reopens, with first refusal on B2
- Early NovemberCask #0231 has its annual sample drawn and a note written
- Late JanuaryLambing starts. The ewe camera goes live and does not go off
- Early MayFlag leaf on B2, and the most expensive spray of the year
- Mid AugustHarvest, and about six hours of notice before the combine moves
- Early SeptemberThe first flour posting, in three lots rather than one sack
Illustrative data. No payment is taken anywhere on this build.
What each state actually means.
The five states a holding can be in
- Growing
- In the ground and behaving. The bar is the season elapsed, not a forecast of yield
- In bond
- Maturing, duty unpaid, insured, and not yours to move until it is bottled
- Active
- A subscription that will dispatch on its usual date unless you skip it
- Waiting
- Bought, not yet started. A patch bought in August is waiting until October
- Gone wrong
- The honest state. A failed establishment, a flea beetle write-off, a cask that leaked
What the bar is measuring
- On a patch
- Days from drilling to the expected harvest window
- On a cask
- Years elapsed against years contracted. Never a valuation
- On a box
- Days through the current billing period
- On a foster
- The animal’s year, not yours. It resets at weaning
- On membership
- Days through the month you have already paid for
No bar anywhere on this site represents money going up. Two of them can only go sideways and one of them can go backwards, which is farming.
Why there is no total.
Every dashboard of this shape wants a number at the top: your portfolio, your value, your worth. We have not put one there and we are not going to.
The reason is that four of these six holdings have no value that could honestly be summed. A cask has a cost and an unknown future; a patch is a forward purchase of produce with a substitution policy attached; a fostered ewe is not an asset in any sense that would survive a conversation with an accountant. Adding them up produces a number that is wrong in a way that flatters us.
So the top of the screen says what is arriving next and when. That is the number people actually came for.
The year ahead, at more length.
The patch grid reopens. First refusal on B2 runs a fortnight, then it is first come.
A 200ml sample is drawn from #0231 and somebody writes two paragraphs about it.
The last box before the Christmas cut-off. Perishables stop on the 19th.
Lambing. Your ewe appears on the shed camera and the notifications get busier.
Flag leaf on B2. The single most expensive fungicide pass of the year.
Ear count. The number that predicts the yield six weeks before the yield exists.
Harvest, on about six hours of notice, decided at half past five in the morning.
The first flour posting. Three lots, because 25kg in one sack splits the box.
Which system owns which holding.
| Holding | System of record | What happens if it disagrees with us |
|---|---|---|
| A patch | The plotting ledger | The ledger wins. It is the contractual record |
| A cask | The bonded warehouse | The warehouse wins. It is HMRC’s record, not ours |
| A box | The subscription platform | The platform wins on billing, we win on contents |
| A fostered animal | The livestock record | The livestock record wins, always |
| Membership | The membership system | It wins, and it is the one you can change fastest |
| Bushels | The loyalty ledger | You win. Where the tills and the ledger disagree we settle in your favour |
Holdings, questioned.
Yes, the moment you claim the gift. It appears here with the giver’s name on it unless they asked to stay anonymous, which about one in nine do.
Nothing. A patch, a cask and a box are purchases, not membership benefits. You keep them, and you keep this screen, because Loitering is free.
Because a forward purchase of produce with a resale market attached stops being a forward purchase and starts being a collective investment scheme, which is a criminal offence to operate without authorisation.
Where it all came from.
Every source, every refresh interval, and what we do when two systems disagree.
