The whole farm, at a glance.
Every paddock is drawn from its real surveyed shape and colored by where it sits in the grazing cycle. The herd’s path trails behind it. Tap any paddock to open its record.
Pick a paddock
Walk the break. The record writes itself.
This is the core daily action. Click the field to drop corners, then close the shape — the app does the math and logs the grazing event: area, perimeter, an entry bearing off the last paddock, and the conditions it happened in.
Draw it once. The fence plans itself.
Every move needs temporary electric fence. Give the app a perimeter and it suggests polywire reels, pigtail posts, and netting — then you log what you actually used, with a reason if it differed. Plan versus actual is how the next estimate gets smarter.
| item | planned | actual — edit if the field disagreed |
|---|---|---|
| Polywire reels · ¼-mile each | — | |
| Pigtail posts · ~every 30 ft | — | |
| Netting · 164-ft rolls | — |
Two dials make or break the soil.
How long a paddock rests before the herd returns, and how tightly you graze it in one pulse. Too little rest plus heavy pressure is overgrazing — the second bite before roots refill. Enough rest plus a dense, brief pulse lays litter armor and drives deep roots. Move the dials and watch the soil respond — this is the same math the production app runs.
health score—
No one holds fifty clocks.
The difference between building soil and degrading it is often a few days of rest, or one paddock grazed a beat too long. No one can hold fifty recovery clocks in their head across a season — so the app remembers them all, does the math the same way every time, and is learning to flag the move that keeps the land healing.
The record becomes the story.
Moves, weather, care — compiled into a passport that rides on every package, QR-linked. Dated, verified, unedited. This one is a real ram’s record — live today.
Open a living passport →Biology, brewed — and watched.
Compost tea and ferments run on living biology, so the app tracks temperature, dissolved oxygen, and pH against each recipe’s window — speeds the clock when it runs warm, and fails safe when a reading crosses a pathogen gate.
The brew model
The ingredient library
Size the batch
Pick a brew size and a paddock — the app turns it into coverage and spray volume for the ground you’re actually standing on.
Nineteen species, one pass.
Build a mix from the seed library — each species carries a rate and a job. The app sums the blend, prices it from the parsed invoice, and logs the seeding against the paddock it lands on.
“Summer” mix
| species | job | lb / acre |
|---|
A supplier invoice photographed once — parsed into the seed library at 95% confidence: species, pounds, price a pound. The mix above prices itself from it.
Legumes feed nitrogen. Grasses armor the soil and pump carbon. Brassicas break compaction. Forbs go deep and feed pollinators. The app keeps the jobs balanced — and remembers which paddock got what, when.
Healthy soil isn’t luck. It follows principles.
Grazing can honor them or break them. The app watches each one, so the day-to-day decisions add up to soil that builds instead of bleeds.
Minimize disturbance
Every pass — hoof, mouth, machine — is a wound. Timing the move keeps the second bite off fresh regrowth.
Keep it covered
Bare soil bakes, sheds water, and loses carbon. A dense pulse tramples old growth into litter armor.
Living roots
Roots feed the soil biology year-round. Cut rest short and roots never refill — the deep ones die back.
Diversity
A mix of plants and microbes is resilience. Tea recipes tune the bacterial-to-fungal balance the ground wants.
Integrate livestock
The herd is the tool. Animals cycle nutrients and stimulate growth — when their impact matches the rest.
The model that predicts the next move is still in shadow — watching, not steering — until it earns it. And every shape on this page is drawn at local scale: the record is the farm’s proof, the location stays the farm’s business. And the record is yours — export it whole, any day.
The formulas on this page are the same ones the production app runs — illustrative numbers, but the real logic. Nothing hides behind a black box.
Real field locations stay private. The maps use surveyed shapes on an abstract canvas, and only anonymized counts are ever shown.
The move-prediction model trains quietly in the background. Until it is calibrated it will not drive a decision — it says “learning,” never “certain.”
Every estimate logs what was planned and what the field actually took — with a reason when they differ. That gap is how the next plan gets smarter.
Asked by farmers. Answered straight.
Whose record is it?
Yours. Export the whole thing — every move, every entry, every photo manifest — any day, in open formats. If Yester & Morrow ever disappeared, your record wouldn’t.
There’s no signal on my back forty.
Good — the app doesn’t need it. Maps pack for offline, moves log where you stand, and it all syncs when you’re back in range. Built in the field, for the field.
What will it cost?
A number comes when the doors open. The promise now: priced like a farm tool you can justify, not a tax on your herd — and the founding circle helps set it.
Does it scale past a homestead?
Today it runs one working farm edge to edge, with a second farm already on the record. We’d rather prove scale on real ground than claim it on a page — that’s what the founding circle is for.
Does the passport carry the hard records too?
Yes. Care and treatments live in the record with the reason why. Our own flock’s passport shows zero interventions — and if an animal ever needed one, its passport would say exactly that.
Does anyone actually scan the QR?
This season’s Founder’s lamb shares at The Wildwoods Farm ship with living passports on every package — buyers reserve the animal, then follow its life. Real stories get read.
What’s being built next.
The label you can read
Point a phone at the code on the package and the animal’s whole life opens — not a marketing word on a sticker, a record you can read. This one left the bench — meet Cliff, live.
Compost-tea AI analyzer
Point the app at your brew and it reads it — red-light / green-light on readiness, what’s blooming (bacterial vs fungal), and whether it’s safe to spray. The same fail-safe model above, run for you automatically.
Eyes in the sky
Fly the farm and the record fills in — field mapping, soil moisture and forage growth from the air, fence-line and movement monitoring on the ground, all synced to one picture.
Want this running on your ground?
We’re onboarding a small circle of founding farms — and first word goes to the list.
Buttons open your mail app — or just write us: chris@thewildwoods.net