Welcome 👋

Welcome to the OD for Life's Gardener’s Guidebook.

This guidebook is foremost a guide for gardeners (i.e. our members) of OD for Life (ODFL) to navigate, steward, and co-create this movement. Secondly, this guidebook is a living bridge between OD for Life and wider ecosystems and social systems. It is shared freely and publicly for anyone that is curious about how we organise and collaborate, is considering joining the ODFL movement or becoming a gardener, or is looking for inspiration in how to populate a guidebook.

We refer to our community members as gardeners as we see this movement as a field we tend together.

If you are a gardener and you see something missing from this guidebook, or something that needs updating or improvement, you are warmly invited to take action so that we evolve this guidebook together.

The first draft of this guidebook was initiated and designed by Anna-Marie Swan, with significant input from Din van Helden, Ramona Fricke, and Michelle Holliday.

OD for Life Gardener's Guidebook © 2026 by OD for Life is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for noncommercial purposes only. If others modify or adapt the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.