Practical guidance for growing tropical and subtropical fruit trees, edible perennials, herbs, and medicinal plants.
From a backyard collection to a complete food forest, Sow Exotic co-founder Jared Craig can help you understand which plants are right for your space, how they grow, what they need, and what is possible for the landscape you want to create.
Every property is different. The right plants and growing methods depend on your climate, space, sunlight, water, soil, and goals.
With more than a decade of hands-on growing experience, Jared can help you:
Virtual Growing Consultations
Whether you’re choosing your first fruit trees, expanding an established edible landscape, or imagining what your property could become, Jared can help you make informed decisions before investing more time and money.
During your consultation, you can explore:
Before the session, you can share photos, property information, existing plants, and what you would love to grow.
You’ll leave with personalized recommendations, clear priorities, and a better understanding of what is possible for your growing space.
You don’t need a large property or years of experience. We’ll meet you wherever you are in the growing process.
On-Site Property Consultations
Jared is available for on-site consultations throughout the United States and internationally. From small residential landscapes and private food forests to large estates, farms, greenhouses, and developing properties, each visit is shaped around the land’s unique conditions, possibilities, and long-term goals.
An on-site consultation may include:
Destination consultations begin with a virtual project discussion. Pricing is based on location, travel, property size, and project scope.
Additional Consulting Services
For larger, specialized, or commercial projects, Sow Exotic provides customized botanical and horticultural advisory shaped around the project’s location, goals, team, and growing conditions.
Botanical & Specialty Project Advisory
Specialty guidance for projects incorporating rare fruiting plants, edible landscapes, medicinal plants, botanical collections, or immersive tropical environments.
Ideal for farms, botanical gardens, hospitality properties, schools, zoos, conservation organizations, and educational projects.
Land Development & Public Spaces Advisory
Botanical and horticultural advisory for apartment communities, mixed-use developments, public parks, greenways, municipal projects, campuses, and other shared landscapes.
Sow Exotic can work alongside developers, municipalities, architects, landscape architects, planners, and community organizations as a specialty plant advisor.
Nursery & Propagation Strategy Consulting
Practical guidance for nurseries, farms, growers, botanical organizations, and plant-based businesses developing or improving their growing operations.
Consulting may include:
Every larger project begins with a conversation to understand the opportunity and determine the right scope of support.
FROM SEED TO SCALE
Jared doesn’t advise from theory alone. He brings decades of hands-on experience growing rare tropical and subtropical plants, developing productive landscapes, and building the systems required to support them.
Through Sow Exotic, he has developed a thriving food forest and helped build and expand nursery operations spanning propagation, plant production, long-term care, packing, and nationwide live-plant fulfillment.
That full-system perspective is what sets Jared apart. He understands not only what will grow, but how plants, landscapes, and growing operations develop over time—giving clients practical, forward-thinking guidance grounded in real experience.
See What’s Possible for Your Growing Space
Whether you’re choosing your first fruit trees, developing a complete food forest, exploring the potential of a larger property, or planning an ambitious botanical project, Jared can help you move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
Build the Business Behind What You Grow
Need help with the business behind what you grow?
Sow Exotic co-founder Brittany Bandi provides specialized e-commerce and business consulting for nurseries, growers, plant shops, garden brands, and horticultural businesses.
Get practical guidance on e-commerce platforms, marketing, customer experience, live-plant fulfillment, retail, wholesale, and sustainable business growth.
