The Valley
Neighbors by choice, joined by cooperation rather than profit.
A plot alone is a homestead; plots together are a valley. The road between them is an open network, and the valley runs on cooperation, not capital.
A plot on its own is a homestead. Plots within reach of each other are a valley, and the valley is the point: visiting a neighbor, leaving a note at their gate, walking from plot to plot along paths people chose to lay, rather than scrolling a feed a machine composed for you.
The road through the valley is an open network, not a private one. Croft builds on existing open social protocol rails, so a plot is not an island: notes and visits thread into the wider network without a bespoke platform in the middle.
What holds the valley together is the same thing that holds the wall together: alignment rather than extraction. There is no engagement machinery, no ranking that rewards heat, and no investor who needs the neighborhood to grow forever. Cooperation is the whole business model, which is to say there is no business model. There are neighbors.
The community and governance thinking behind the valley lives in the open discovery repo.