About
About this concept
Seedlark Commons is a concept website made by Tideframe Digital. The garden and the collective do not exist.
What is real and what is not
The garden, its programs, plots, events and stories are invented. Nothing can be booked, adopted, joined or paid for. Every form on the site is a demonstration that checks your answers on the page and then stops.
What is demo-only
- Events calendar: dates are examples, and the RSVP form holds no spot
- Garden plots: statuses are illustrative and the waitlist adds you to nothing
- Volunteer sign-up: nothing is sent and nobody will contact you
- Donations: amounts are illustrative, nothing is charged and no card details are ever asked for
- Contact form: messages go nowhere
How it is built
WordPress with the GeneratePress theme and a custom child theme. Events, plots and programs are custom content types with Advanced Custom Fields forms, so a garden volunteer could update them without touching code. The type is Caprasimo for headings and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Mono for reading, all hosted on this site. Tideframe Digital builds sites like this: see the studio’s work.
The risograph look
The two-colour print effect is done in the browser with CSS blend modes. Photos are shown as one ink with a shape overprinted in the other, the way a risograph prints one colour at a time. Fluorescent pink and garden green are used only as fills and shapes, never for text, because neither has enough contrast against the paper colour.
About the photos
Photos are free images from Unsplash. They are not photos of a real garden or of anyone involved with one, and nobody in them is a member, volunteer or visitor of Seedlark Commons.
Image credits
| Image | Title | Photographer | Source | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A bumblebee on a stem of lavender | Jamie Street | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A crate packed with tomatoes, capsicums, okra and herbs | Zoe Richardson | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A fuzzy bumblebee feeding on purple flowers | Sandy Millar | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A gloved hand lifting rainbow chard from a bed | Jonathan Kemper | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A green wheelbarrow leaning on a stack of firewood | Ries Bosch | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A hand firming soil around a young seedling | Elly M | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A hand holding a dandelion clock as its seeds blow away | Stanley Kustamin | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A heap of plastic watering cans on timber floorboards | Barney Goodman | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A long outdoor table set for a shared meal on the grass | Jon Tyson | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A metal watering can pouring over white flowers | Katharina Bill | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A person bending over wooden raised beds full of leafy greens | Priscilla Du Preez | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A small white garden shed with a green window | Kailun Zhang | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A woven basket of carrots, zucchini and cherry tomatoes | Sara Scarpa | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | A yellow watering can resting on a timber post | Laura Roberts | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Cupped hands holding a small seedling in a clump of soil | Noah Buscher | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Four hand tools hanging on a pale wall | Annie Spratt | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Garden beds and small greenhouses behind a yellow picket fence | Matt Baker | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Hands potting seedlings around a table covered in soil | Alex Diaz | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Lettuce and chives growing in a wooden raised bed | Markus Spiske | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Open timber compost bays filled with garden scraps | Frank Thiemonge | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | People kneeling to plant flowers along a garden bed | Quilia | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Ripe and green tomatoes hanging on the vine | Cody Chan | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Rows of raised timber beds in front of a low brick building | Annie Spratt | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Seedlings sprouting in small fibre pots | Rachel Reinhardt | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Seedlings with their first leaves in a black plastic tray | Laura Ohlman | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Tiny green sprouts coming up through dark soil | sourmarb | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Two hands holding a mound of dark crumbly soil | Seth Cottle | Unsplash | Unsplash License |
 | Two pairs of hands pressing soil around a young plant | Hammilton Ojijo | Unsplash | Unsplash License |