Seven steps, taken at your own pace.
The Garden Walk is how a garden is begun: a few questions, answered in your own words, one stone at a time. You walk it with Bonsai, the garden's guardian spirit, on your own machine. Nothing is set up until you say so, and you can stop at any step.
The gate
A question, and a way to say no.
A short welcome, and a promise that nothing is set up until you say so.
You
A little about you, in your words.
A name to call you by, in fields, in your own words, or through a few questions.
What it’s for
What you want this garden to do.
A few questions about what you want your garden to do, written down in your words.
Who’s with you
The constellation of those around you.
One companion beside you, and a guardian for your garden.
Imagine them
The agents you would want beside you.
You imagine your companion, and five lenses say what they see before anything is written down.
Your word
The turn: a held breath before you say it.
Nothing has been set up; to go on, you say so in your own words.
The tools
What the garden runs on.
The tools your garden needs, installed by your own hand.
Home, keys, a name
Where it lives, and what it is called.
A home for your garden, a key that stays yours, and names.
The two promises
The codex and the covenant, sealed.
Your promise and your guardian's, sealed together at the same moment.
Garden ready
It calls home.
Public things go home, nothing else, and the walk is over.