Welcome To My Garden is a community of slow travellers, where travelling members can stay for free in the gardens of WTMG hosts. WTMG has an intuitive map to find hosts along bicycle or hiking paths (it integrates with Waymarked Trails), and a simple chat system to contact hosts.

WTMG is member-supported. Aside from being able to send stay requests, members get access to extra tools like uploading .gpx files to find gardens along a planned trail, a community space with likeminded travellers, a railway transportation map, and more!

WTMG was started by my colleagues Dries and Manon in 2020, and initially constructed together with a group of volunteers. In 2021, Dries and Manon brought the project under the wing of the Belgian benefit corporation Slowby they had just founded. In September 2022, I became Slowby’s Chief Technologist to answer the growing need for the ongoing technical maintenance of WTMG, and to help set and implement the roadmap of all of Slowby’s projects.

Since working on WTMG, I’ve implemented memberships for travellers (2022-23), cross-platform Web Push notifications (2023), user-uploadable trails, geolocation, reply-by-email functionality (2024), together with tons of back-office capabilities, fixes and improvements. WTMG is just getting started, so stay tuned!