Introducing Organisations — for teams and community gardens

MyPlot has always been built for individual gardeners and households. Today we're opening up a new layer for people running something bigger — community gardens, market gardens, horticultural education programmes, and gardening teams who need to coordinate work across multiple people and track what gets done.

The centrepiece is the task board. Managers create tasks, assign them to staff members, set priorities and due dates, and track progress through a kanban-style board. Tasks can be scoped to a specific bed, garden, or property — so when someone is assigned to "weed the brassica bed before Friday", that context is attached. Staff members see their queue on a personal My Work dashboard the moment they log in.

Roles control what each person can see and do. Owners have full access including billing and organisation settings. Managers can create and assign tasks, view all staff work, and access reports. Staff members see their own assigned work, log hours and costs against tasks, and can record garden events as usual. Viewers have read-only access — useful for committee members, educators, or funders who want visibility without the ability to change anything.

The reporting side is where organisations get real visibility. The time and cost report breaks down hours logged and expenses recorded by staff member, task category, or date range. If your community garden pays casual staff by the hour, you can pull an accurate timesheet from MyPlot rather than chasing people for paper records. If you're grant-funded and need to report volunteer hours, the same report covers that too.

Organisation features are available from the Organisation section in the sidebar, once you've set up an org from your account settings. If you run a community garden, horticultural programme, or small market garden and want a simpler way to coordinate your team's work, this is built for you.