In today's algorithmic rat race and fast food culture, we need to give space for things to go more slowly and deliberately. Hence, this site. To lie fallow isn't to be lazy; it's how things recover and grow. Fallow.Garden is a set of quiet, zero-tracking web tools designed to help you:
Tools for measuring the arc of time, the practical pivot to a post-career horizon, and the daily weather of cognition.
Estimate your remaining lifespan. Uses current US data with input on your life choices to visualize your finite remaining springs, weekends, and high-vitality days.
A 3-minute tool to track speech fluency, word retrieval, and memory. An open-ended spoken baseline checkup to track your memory. Uses 100% client-side computational linguistics to measure vocabulary richness (MATTR), noun-to-pronoun specificity, idea density, and conversational loops—paired with a restorative check-in on reversible factors like sleep, stress, and hearing health.
Practical steps for your post-career pivot. Gentle navigation, curated pathways, and actionable daily experiments to step away from the 9-to-5 without existential dread.
Quiet instruments for circadian pacing, soft fascination, and open-loop offloading.
Explore how boredom ignites the Default Mode Network, and model your neural soil with the interactive attention simulator.
Rebuild your deep focus through Attention Restoration Theory, and zero-input micro-breaks.
Tending the internal ecosystem: gut biome podcast explorations, metabolic windows, and weekly botanical diversity.
A podcast series exploring the wild, living world inside you. Discover what happens when we stop treating our bodies like stubborn machines to fix, and start tending them like bustling internal gardens.
A guide to understanding your gut microbiome. Choose your preferred depth—from simple everyday metaphors to detailed physiological science—and test out how your choices affect your body with an interactive simulator.
This apps tracks your last meal with a timestamp and explains what is happening with your body at different fasting levels. Also provides gentle fast-breaking protocols.
A diverse range of plants helps your native gut flora. This app helps track weekly botanical diversity across 100+ foods (aiming for 30+ unique species) and living ferments.
Practical advice for microbiome rebuilding after major ecological shocks —a colonoscopy, antibiotic courses, or stomach bugs - with clear descriptions of what to eat for recolonization protocols.
Restoring native Mid-Atlantic habitat, living landscapes, and pollinator corridors.
Native habitat and pollinator planner for Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic. Match local soil profiles, bloom sequences, and deer-resistant companion guilds to cultivate biodiversity.
A multi-tiered primer rethinking plants as active biological agents, exploring atmospheric forest chemistry, tree breath, and how we become local participants in our ecosystems.
Pragmatic calculators for federal service milestones alongside lighthearted cosmic and terrestrial diversions.
A calm horizon planner for federal civil service. Track remaining working days, annuity benchmarks, and the gradual transition toward self-directed, sovereign time.
The quiet custodian of your household ice shelf. A zero-friction freezer ledger to track cold storage provisions, adjust portions with a single tap, and surface deep glacial reserves.
A playful karmic simulator exploring ancient trades, distant epochs, and historical wanderers to lightly dislodge the solemn weight of modern self-importance.
Unfinished experiments and half-baked ideas still breaking down in the soil.
fallow.garden is an independent anthology of single-purpose micro-utilities created to counter cognitive fatigue, algorithmic noise, and relentless optimization culture. Each tool runs entirely on your device with zero tracking or account friction.
Have ideas for new restorative modules, suggestions for current tools, or questions about the underlying research? Feedback and contributions are always deeply appreciated.