The Planner designs your whole yard — on your real sun.
It takes your free sun map and lays out the entire property: a food forest that feeds your family and a native habitat that restores your ecosystem — every plant placed by the real light in each spot, planned across the seasons and the next ten years.
Three steps, and the first one is free.
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Map the sun on your yard
Trace your property and we render the real hours of direct sun on every square foot — hour by hour, season by season.
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Open the Planner
It reads those exact sun hours and designs the whole property — what to plant, where, and how it changes as the trees fill in.
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Plant it, then track it
Take your plan out to the beds, log what you sowed and what came up, and next season's plan is built on your yard's real results.
Included with the Planner
The Planner needs a sun map to work from — that's why step 1 comes first, and why it's free.
It starts with your free sun map.
Map your yard free — a rainbow of real daylight hours over a satellite photo of your property. The Planner builds on top of it: everything it designs is anchored to the actual light your yard gets. Free tool first, paid plan second.
Plan the space. Grow it through time. Trust it's right.
The free tools show you your yard. The Planner turns them into a plan you can plant.
Design the whole yard on its real light.
Every plant placed by the hours of direct sun in that exact spot — food and native, laid out together as one system.
- ✓Placement by light — sun-lovers in the reds, shade-tolerant plants where the canopy falls.
- ✓Companion logic & spacing — so plants help each other instead of crowding.
- ✓One plant library, two roles — food plants and native plants kept clearly apart, on purpose.
Grow it through the seasons — and the next ten years.
A plan that knows what happens next, so today's sunny bed doesn't become tomorrow's shade.
- ✓Harvest calendar — what's ripening, month by month.
- ✓Bloom-by-month — native succession so something feeds pollinators all season.
- ✓10-year future-shade forecast — warns you before a tree shades a bed (“this maple shades this spot by year 6”).
Know both halves are working.
Two scorecards, one property — proof the yard is feeding your family and restoring the ecosystem.
- ✓The harvest basket — what your yard actually yields.
- ✓Pollinator score — plus habitat certification with the National Wildlife Federation.
One plan. Two jobs.
A permaculture food forest — fruit trees, berries, and vegetables, sized for a real harvest.
A native habitat that brings back the pollinators, birds, and wildlife your area lost.
$15/mo.
- ✓Plant placement matched to your real light
- ✓Food forest + native habitat in one plan
- ✓Companion logic & spacing
- ✓Harvest calendar + bloom-by-month
- ✓10-year future-shade forecast
- ✓Harvest basket + pollinator scorecards (NWF)
Straight talk: what you pay for, and what you don't.
The Planner is $15/mo and you can cancel anytime. The sun map and Garden Report are free, stay free, and stay saved — subscribing or not, your map is yours.
Planner FAQ
Do I need the free sun map first?
Yes — it's the foundation the Planner builds on. Every plant it places is anchored to the real light your yard actually gets, so we need the map before we can plan. Mapping is free and takes a few minutes.
How much does it cost?
$15 per month. The sun map and Garden Report stay free — you only pay for the Planner, and you can cancel anytime.
What does the Planner do that the free tools don't?
It designs the whole yard: plant placement by light, companion logic, a harvest calendar, bloom-by-month succession, a 10-year future-shade forecast, and two scorecards — your harvest basket and a pollinator score with habitat certification through the National Wildlife Federation.
Is it for food or native plants?
Both. It designs a productive food forest and a living native habitat in one plan, and the library keeps the two roles clearly apart on purpose.
What happens to my sun map if I don't subscribe?
Nothing — it's yours, free, and it stays saved. The Planner is the paid layer on top; the map underneath never expires or locks.
Ready to plant it?
Map your yard free, then let the Planner turn that light into what to plant, where.