<aside> 🌳 Farm designs in Overyield are composed of two primary building blocks: Sections and Layers. These elements can be creatively arranged and adjusted on your Design Page to map out your farm.
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When you enter a farm project, you’ll land on your Design Page — the creative center of Overyield, where you can flexibly envision and re-envision your farm landscape.
<aside> 🌲 A section is a distinct planting area.
A section can be a single straight row of trees or a large field drawn on contour, a monoculture or a polyculture, economically productive or simply ornamental.
Sections include 3 different planting types: Lines, Grids, and Keylines.
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Lines are crop rows.
A line can be straight, irregularly shaped, or even follow a contour, though the line tool works best for small or irregular plantings such as windbreaks, hedgerows, riparian areas, or living fences following a property boundary.
A grid is, in essence, a field: a collection of straight crop rows that auto-populate a predefined field boundary.
Grids allow you to quickly create large plantings while maximizing the productive capacity of a given area.
Grids work best when drawing straight fields
The keyline tool combines both grids and lines, allowing you to create irregular rows within a predefined field boundary. The keyline tool is especially helpful for drawing contour-planted areas.
<aside> 🌍 A layer is a landscape feature or attribute.
Layers range from ponds to roads, headlands to ridges. Our gallery below shows how each layer type can be creatively employed in Overyield.
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