The shape you draw decides the farm you get. A few minutes of care at the map saves you from mailing doors that can never write back.
Episode video coming soon – the written guide below has everything you need in the meantime.
What you’ll learn
- Why single-family streets make the best farms
- What apartment complexes do to your door count
- Drawing along curves, cul-de-sacs, and split streets
- Tight beats big
Farm single-family streets
The best farming streets are owner-occupied single-family homes – real people with real names, the doors that greet you by name. Our count focuses on single-family homes for exactly this reason.
Watch for apartments
An apartment complex can add hundreds of doors and subtract nearly all your namable recipients – corporate owners and rotating tenants do not farm well. Draw around them.
Follow the streets
Click along the curve of the road, cut across at intersections, split a street down the middle if the far side belongs to a different neighborhood. The shape can be as complex as your farm needs.
Tight beats big
A precise 200-door farm of the right streets outperforms a sprawling 500-door shape that swallows half a highway. Farm where people know each other – that is where a neighborly letter lands.
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