Planning with
the land.

The farm planner starts with a conversation about your land and intentions. Explore crops, supporting plants, costs, labor, habitat and weather resilience, with saved conversations and provisional concepts.

Ideas and estimates still need local measurements and expert review. Full protocol review and field deployment are in development. The earlier Southwest Florida calculator remains available in Field Notes.

1. Understand the place. Start with soil, water, climate, current land use and your resources.
2. Compare possible futures. Consider permaculture, conventional and mixed approaches through profit, biodiversity, resilience and workload.
3. Test a manageable change. Review the plan with people who know the site, then measure what happens.

The goal is a practical sequence of decisions that fits your land and your capacity.

Saved inquiries, corrections and field updates help us understand what farmers need. Free accounts contribute eligible information for reviewed, de-identified training examples. Private accounts are excluded from training.

The planner does not retrain itself automatically. Raw transcripts and photographs are not automatically exported as training examples. You can download or delete your farm records. Read the data policy →

The farm planner is free with an account and explicit training contribution. Private planning costs $120 per year, billed annually. There is no monthly plan.

Turning training contribution off takes effect immediately. A paid annual subscription is required to continue planning privately; you can still access, download and delete existing records. Site assessments, specialist advice, materials and fieldwork are separate.

Shedu is based in North Carolina. The first working example focuses on Southwest Florida, with a longer-term ambition to support farms across different climates and growing zones.

Each region needs its own evidence. The Alva example is a starting point, not a nationwide recommendation.