A boat survey, a drone flight, or a site walk tells you about one place on one day, and it costs real money every time you want a fresh look. A BottomBee report gives you a current, defensible picture of an entire site for a fraction of that, from imagery already overhead. That changes what you can afford to know. You can scout a parcel before you commit to buying it. You can watch a site between visits. You can document conditions before and after a storm, a grading job, or a season, and keep a dated record in case anyone ever questions what happened. The work is independent and third-party, which is exactly what makes it useful in a permit file, a loan package, or a dispute.
BottomBee Farms did not start in an office. It started with a submerged-land lease near St. Augustine, Florida (Ostra Farms), and a simple problem: we needed to understand a site, its depth, its water, and what was on the bottom, without paying for a full survey every time a question came up. The tools we built to answer that worked far beyond a single oyster lease. The same analysis that maps a shellfish site maps a row-crop field, a construction parcel, a timber tract, or a stretch of coast before and after a storm. We are a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and we still run every report to the standard we set for our own ground. That is what you are paying for: work done by people who work real ground and water, for other people who build on it, farm it, and answer for it.
Developers and site teams documenting progress and conditions. Land buyers, sellers, and lenders are running due diligence on a parcel. Civil and environmental consultants assembling permit and baseline packages. Farmers, ranchers, and timber owners are reading the health of their land. Oyster growers, marinas, and coastal districts are monitoring water depth and conditions. Agencies and emergency teams need an answer when the weather will not cooperate. If you are responsible for a piece of land or water and need a clear, current, defensible picture of it, we built this for you.