Planning With AI on a Working Nursery

THE NURSERY NOW

The nursery at Wardwells is already working. We have plants all over.

It's a wholesale nursery for native plants, growing North Florida natives in containers under the pine canopy. The land is 5.1 acres of pines and marsh on Black Hammock Island, with Sawpit Creek Marsh to the east.

Our July 14 post, Clearing the First Growing Yard, describes selective clearing under the slash pines that keeps every healthy pine. It names coontie, needle palm and Walter's viburnum.

GROWERS LIKE US

As we see it, technology is already largely the norm at the largest producers. We think it's an important part of the future of agriculture for individual growers like us too.

Our own nursery is an example of what that looks like. Right now we're adding fencing, roads, paths and electric irrigation, and using AI to help with all of that.

AI also helped with our October 21 site plan and our 3D renders.

WHAT THE PLAN SHOWS

In the plan, the drive is about 1,210 feet of crushed concrete, lined with pines. It has swales and a turnaround loop.

The plan also has 8-foot fencing and a 16-foot rolling gate, along with solar stake lights. Its wood-chip cart paths run out to the marsh edge, and another path goes around the barn.

The barn in the plan is 46.5 by 36.5 feet, warm white board-and-batten under a charcoal standing-seam roof. The screened porch faces east.

THE GROWING AREAS

The plan shows a nursery pad and a potted-plant growing area, plus another growing area. Each one has a concrete apron and weed matting.

One more area is marked for future clearing.