Crop Map

Overview

The Crop Map allows you to map out your plantings across your entire farm, providing a clear, at-a-glance view of how your space is being used in each block, for each planting, throughout the year. This guide provides an overview of the Crop Map’s interface, explaining its key elements and how it fits into the overall Heirloom ecosystem.

Understanding the Interface

When you first access the Crop Map, you’ll see a blank canvas representing your farm.

The main elements of the interface include:

• Canvas: This is the central area of the Crop Map where your blocks are placed and visualized. In its default state, it is a blank slate.
• Blocks: These represent the different growing areas on your farm (e.g., raised beds, rows, greenhouse plots). You can create them using the Create New Block tool in the Farm Map. Once placed on the canvas, each Block is divided into a grid representing individual Beds.
• Plantings: Represented by colored bars within the blocks, plantings are created in the Game Plan. Each bar’s length corresponds to the planting’s duration, from planting date to the expected last harvest date. The colors visually differentiate crops. You can assign them to blocks/beds by dragging and dropping them onto the canvas.
• Top: Located at the top, the top toolbar provides tools for interacting with the Crop Map:
  • Hand Tool: Allows you to pan across the Crop Map by clicking and dragging.
  • Select Tool (only planting): Allows you to only select plantings without dragging the canvas.
  • Select Tool: Allows you to select plantings and/or plantings inside blocks.
  • Filter: this filter allows you to toggle plantings on/off for only active plantings (plantings started and not yet harvested).

• Bottom:
  • Farm Map:Found in the bottom left corner, this overlay shows a simplified satellite view of your actual farm. Toggle it on and off for real-world context. You can create your farm in the Farm Map section of Heirloom.
  • Zoom Controls: The “+” and “-” buttons, with the percentage indicator, let you zoom in and out.
  • Full Screen: The Full Screen button expands the Crop Map to fill your entire screen.
  • Focus: The Focus button zooms out so you can see all your assigned blocks
• Right:
  • Assign Block: the Assign Block button open a panel that is used to assign blocks to the canvas by dragging and dropping them to the left.
  • Assign Plantings: the Assign Planting button opens a panel that is used to assign plantings to blocks. A block needs to be on the canvas first for a planting to be assigned.
  • Print Your Crop Map: the Print Your Crop Map button allows you to download specific sections or your entire crop map as JPEG image files.

Key Features and Functionality

• Visual Planning: The Crop Map provides a clear visual overview of your entire farm, allowing you to see where each crop is planted, when it will be harvested, and how different plantings relate to each other spatially.
• Drag-and-Drop Assignment: Easily assign plantings to blocks by dragging and dropping them from the “Unassigned Plantings” panel onto the desired location on the Crop Map. Note: The bed size of a planting, as defined in the Game Plan, must match the bed size of the block you are assigning it to.
• Interactive Blocks: You can add blocks to the canvas, move them, unassign them, and assign plantings to them. If you go over the limit of the canvas, it will automatically enlarge itself, allowing you to work on multiple pages.
• Real-World Context: The Mini Farm Map overlay helps you connect your digital plan to the physical layout of your farm using a satellite view.
• Filtering and Sorting: Filter the Crop Map to display specific crops, planting statuses, or other criteria. Sort plantings in the “Unassigned Plantings” panel by various parameters, such as crop, implantation date, or harvest date (start and end).
• Direct Editing: Click on any planting on the map to open an “Edit” window. This allows you to modify planting details directly, which will be reflected back in your Game Plan.
• Printing: You can print your Crop Map, choosing to print the entire map or individual blocks as separate images.
  How the Crop Map Works with Other Heirloom Features

How the Crop Map Works with Other Heirloom Features

• Game Plan: Plantings created in the Game Plan, including their size and timing, populate the “Unassigned Plantings” panel in the Crop Map. The information entered in the Game Plan will affect what is possible to do in the Crop Map.
• Farm Map: Blocks created in the Farm Map are available in the “Unassigned Blocks” panel of the Crop Map. The Mini Farm Map provides a real-world view of your farm within the Crop Map interface.