← all work · from the studio — since 2017

Spring in a Box

Five acres in South Florida, designed like a system that grows. Beds, water, shade, and seasons — planned the way I'd plan a product, then planted for real.

springinabox.com ↗
Spring in a Box — the farm from above
What it is
Farm, business + digital ecosystem
Kind of work
Land design, systems, patience
Status
● ongoing · since 2017
Where to find it
the story

One idea that kept growing.

Spring in a Box began as a small South Florida farm business — a few beds, some herbs, and a stubborn belief that good soil is worth the wait. It didn't stay small. Season after season it grew into something much larger: a living library of plants, a way of teaching, and a set of digital tools that carry the garden beyond the fence line.

What started in the ground now stretches across physical and digital experiences — proof of how one idea can evolve when you keep documenting and keep planting.

  • 01herb education
  • 02sustainable gardening
  • 03agroecology
  • 04digital gardening guides
  • 05machine learning research
  • 06educational games
  • 07community workshops
what I built

The many rooms of one garden.

01 Garden Library A living collection of herbs and plants, catalogued the way a studio catalogues its work.
02 Digital Guides Short, friendly books that turn seasons of field notes into something you can grow from.
03 Workshops Hands-in-the-soil community sessions where the farm becomes a classroom.
04 AI & Machine Learning Research into how models can read plants, seasons, and soil — technology in service of the garden.
05 The Farm Game Spring in a Box made playable — seasons, soil, and patience as game mechanics.
06 Herbs Collection The plants at the heart of it all — grown, studied, and shared.
design philosophy

Gardening should be approachable, educational, and joyful.

Everything here is built around that belief. The guides, the game, the research — none of it exists to gatekeep. Technology is used to help people reconnect with nature, never to replace it. The best tool is still a pair of hands in warm soil; the rest is just there to point the way.

gallery
Fresh basil in a self-watering pot
A rainbow over the farm garden beds
Catalina holding a fresh harvest at the farm
A box of freshly cut herbs — basil, mint, rosemary
Raised garden beds at the farm at dusk
leaving the studio ↗

Visit Spring in a Box

This is just the story. The full library, the guides, the game, and the garden itself live on the dedicated site — come see how it's growing.

Visit springinabox.com ↗
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