ImbewuFieldField experience, built into a practical tool.
I’m building ImbewuField from years of designing gardens, training growers and supporting programme teams. This pilot-stage product connects farm planning, learning and records, with selected workflows available offline.
Garden planning with a tablet. AI illustration from the concept note.
Phone · Tablet · ComputerIn your browser · iOS, Android, Windows & macOSPilot-stage product · In active development
The design challenge
Keep the tools close to the work.
The product brings four roles into one workflow. Farmers need useful daily tools; mentors need a basis for follow-up; organisations and funders need records they can interpret. Farm planning, learning, records and programme support form the main workflows.
01
Farmers
Learn, plan the land and keep a useful record of the farm’s work.
02
Mentors
Guide a group, set learning tasks and follow up with each grower.
03
Organisations
Coordinate delivery, assessments and programme reporting.
04
Funders
Follow shared progress and the evidence behind the programme.
01 / Plan the land
A plan you can take into the field.
Bring beds, trees, water, paths and zones into one site design. Save the map, print it for a training session, and turn the beds into a seasonal crop plan.
ImbewuField / Design StudioMap → Plant → Print
Example garden design with planting key and export controls · Design Studio, September overview.
From the map to the season
What goes in next?
See sowing and harvest periods by bed and month. Use the crop plan to discuss the next planting, then return to it during follow-up visits.
Site reports bring modelled climate, soil and rainfall information into the conversation about what the ground can grow.
Crop planner showing sowing and harvest periods by bed and month.
02 / Learn & ask
A lesson for the task. An answer for the moment.
Work through illustrated lessons, listen to audio and follow your progress in My Studies. Bring a question from the garden to Lima, the app’s AI assistant, with a photo of what you have noticed.
A mentor can assign the next module and use the next visit to help turn the learning into practice.
My Studies learning modules and a Lima photo question about cabbage leaves. Lima is a presentation example with an AI-generated photo.
A grower recording a vegetable sale by phone · AI-generated concept-note illustration.
03 / Record the work
A sale at the gate. A record on the phone.
Keep harvests, sales and costs close to the work. Create an invoice, share it through WhatsApp or print it, then keep the payment status with the sale.
Picked
Harvests and production.
Sold
Sales and paid invoices.
Spent
The costs of running the farm.
04 / Support the programme
A garden is more than a number.
Open a garden record to see the people, production and learning behind it. Mentors keep follow-up focused; organisations coordinate delivery; funders review the progress and findings shared with them.
ImbewuField / Organisation workspacePeople · Place · Progress
Example organisation workspace with garden records, produce and training progress. Demonstration data and AI-generated garden, produce and profile images.
01
Establish the baseline
Agree starting conditions, priorities and milestone targets.
02
Follow the delivery
Review training, farm records and dated progress through the season.
03
Review & learn
Use midpoint and closeout assessments to agree the next action.
The September overview distinguishes working tools from planned additions, including formal indicator registers, advanced evaluation tools and automated data-quality review.
Built from field experience
People make it work.
I’m building ImbewuField from the practical work of designing gardens, teaching growers and supporting field teams across Southern Africa.
The app sits alongside training, mentorship and a regular habit of keeping useful records. Programme setup, onboarding and support are shaped with the team using it.
A mentor and growers discussing a crop plan · AI-generated concept-note illustration.
Read it. Share it.
An introduction to take with you.
The illustrated resource guide explains the app and programme. At the end you’ll find the full concept note, the one-page WhatsApp pamphlet and practical installation guidance.
My Studies
Ask Lima
