The regenerative land operating system
Design the right regenerative system for your land.
And know how to run it.
As you scroll, bare land grows into a layered food forest. Most food forests never get planted — not through laziness, but because nobody tells people what fits their actual land, time and budget, and in what order. Understory tells you what fits.
01 · Understand the land
Walk your land. It has a lot to tell you.
A postcode and a few questions become a living picture of your site — sun, soil, wind, frost, what's already growing. Or walk it phone-in-hand and let Understory listen. Everything stays on your device.
Understand my land
02 · Find what fits
Real systems, scored against your land.
Not a mood board — a shortlist. Food forest, orchard with hens, no-dig kitchen garden… each one scored against your land, time, budget and skill, with the reasoning in the open.
Browse species & systems03 · Design & cost it
Your plan, drawn.
Turn a recommendation into a real plan — every plant placed, from canopy to ground cover, costed honestly in money and hours. This one drew itself from a real profile. Yours will too.
Start with your land
04 · The reality check
Honest about the money, the hours, and the wait.
Understory works out what it'll cost in money and hours, and how long you'll wait before it starts giving anything back. If that's more than you bargained for, it'll say so.
05 · Run it
Season by season, it stays manageable.
Phased steps and week-by-week tasks, tuned to your time. Log what you observe; the plan adapts to what your land tells you.
Spring
Plant, mulch, and watch the first flush.
Summer
Water the young things; harvest the early layers.
Autumn
The main planting window — trees go in dormant.
Winter
Prune, plan, and let the soil rest.
Honest, not idealistic
It weighs cost, labour and the seasons, and will tell you to start smaller. The plan you can actually keep up beats the perfect one you abandon.
Reasoning you can see
Every recommendation shows why, where it's strong, where it isn't, and how confident we are. No black box, no AI magic.
Built for your conditions
Temperate, edible, regenerative systems for gardens up to a few acres. Designed for the UK and climates like it.
Start with your own land.
Takes about two minutes. No account needed. Your answers stay in your browser.