Special Interest
HarvestForge
Run a farm from seed to shelf — manage soil microbiomes, rotate crops, navigate drought and pest challenges, trace food through the supply chain, and investigate food justice issues that determine who eats and who goes hungry.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
#FFA726 HarvestForge lets you run your own farm from seed to shelf! Plant crops, manage soil health, fight pests with smart strategies, and trace your food through the supply chain to the dinner table. Real weather from your location affects your virtual farm, so a rainy day outside means water for your cro
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
HarvestForge's 5-character cast embodies food-system primitives — when-to-plant seasonality (Seed), soil-as-living-community (Soil), supply-chain literacy (Chain), food-access + food-justice (Share), and intergenerational sustainability (Steward). Terra (mentor preserved; site reconciled from 'Bramble' to match shipped code) frames each primitive; cast embodies them at farm-and-community scale (NEVER agribusiness-mascotization). Food-justice + food-access gate enforced (CRITICAL): cast NEVER amplifies food-insecurity shame; Share's structural presence from kit 11 onward names community-food-network framing — food deserts are SYSTEMS not personal failings; supply-chain content includes farmworker labor conditions (kit 12) without scare-tactics. Idyllic-farm-romanticism gate: cast art register is mended/working/patinated; NO white-picket-fence / shiny-tractor / model-farm iconography; supply-chain truthful about labor + food-system fragility. External food-justice + farmworker-labor + Indigenous-food-system sensitivity reviewer RECOMMENDED ($500-$800) before Wave 26.2 art generation.
Seed
Seasonality + sowing — when to plant, what each season teaches; calendar-as-tool
Soil
Soil microbiome + nutrient cycling — soil is alive; soil-as-community framing
Chain
Supply chain literacy — every loaf tells a journey; whose-hands framing
Share
Food access + food-justice — community-food-network framing; food deserts are systems, NOT moral failings
Steward
Sustainable practices + intergenerational restoration — field remembers; latest-not-first framing
What's inside
Farm Management
Tap your farm fields to plant crops, inspect soil, and manage irrigation. Each field plot is a tile you can plant on. Choose from different crop types -- each o
Soil Science Lab
Tap the soil to see a cross-section view. You will see the pH level, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, organic matter, and moisture. Healthy soil grows bigger ha
Crop Rotation
Planting the same crop in the same field season after season depletes the soil and invites pests. The rotation advisor helps you plan which crops to plant where
Pest Management
Pests show up as your farm grows. You can fight them with beneficial insects, physical barriers, or targeted treatments. Each method has trade-offs -- some are
Mentored by Terra — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How HarvestForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
HarvestForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
HarvestForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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