About

Khamon Fate logged into Second Life in November, 2003 and noticed right away that the foliage selection was severely limited and that most of the builds simulated real world enclosures rather than natural settings.  My immediate goal became focused on greening the grid.

Fate Square was built in a 96sm parcel on top of Kissling Mountain as the first step of a plan to place small parks across the grid and ensure some natural settings for residents to enjoy. Each venue would display a few plants for sale in order to make enough inworld money to pay the required weekly land taxes. As the income grew, and could support more land, new parks would be built and new plants would be produced. There were no options, at the time, to buy or sell lindens (inworld money), or to support land using external funds.

The plan was heavily adapted when version 1.2 was announced and Fate Gardens was formed to sell plants from a single garden area in order to help people “green” their own area of the grid. As time passed, and sales grew, the gardens expanded from 4ksm in Olive, to 16ksm in Taber, to 50ksm in Slate requiring a full sim monthly tier. They are currently being rebuilt in a Fairchang openspace simulator named Fate Gardens.