For people who own land

Find out what your land is good for

Before anyone sells, clears, builds or plants, read what the land carries: its water, soil and forest, the corridors it joins and the uses it suits. One reading the whole family can look at.

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Pages from the TERRA report

Climate to 2050How the land behaves through the yearThe parcel in one picture
Pages from a TERRA report on 72.6 ha in Hojancha, Costa Rica.
A farmhouse on hillside pasture with forest edges and fenced paddocks in El Retiro, Antioquia, Colombia.
Photo: Julia Mayo · Unsplash

What goes wrong

  1. 01

    It costs every year and earns nothing

    Taxes, fences, a caretaker, the clearing the town asks for. Land held without a plan slowly costs the family that holds it.

    TERRA helpsThe uses the land supports, side by side: conserve, restore, farm, host or sell.

  2. 02

    The family can't agree

    One wants to sell, one wants to keep it, one wants to build. With no facts on the table, every opinion weighs the same.

    TERRA answers itOne reading on one page, every source named, that everyone can open.

  3. 03

    An offer comes in and you can't judge it

    The buyer knows what the land is worth to them. You don't yet know what it holds.

    TERRA helpsWater, forest, slope and protected land on the record before you answer.

  4. 04

    Conservation income is hard to reach

    Payments for keeping forest run out of budget, and a carbon project costs more to set up than most single owners can carry.

    TERRA helpsThe forest and its history, which any programme asks about first.

What TERRA does not do

TERRA does not value the land, settle who owns it or enrol you in a programme. It gives everyone the same facts to decide with.

What TERRA reads for you

  • What the land is suited forRead on draw
  • Water and soilRead on draw
  • Corridors it connectsRead on draw
  • Forest and biomassRead on draw

Before you start

Will this tell me what the land is worth?

No. It tells you what the land holds and what it suits, so an appraisal or an offer can be judged against facts.

Every figure names its source and date. Where the data is silent, the reading says so.

The reading

What your land suits, side by side.

The reading weighs the uses the land can carry: conserve, restore, farm, host or sell, and names the one that fits best, with the figures behind it. Ask the analyst anything about it in plain words; it answers from the reading and says when the data is silent.

  • Private readings

    Every free reading joins the public wall. A Pro reading stays off it: no listing, no corpus, no link anyone else can open. Publish it later if you choose, or never.

  • The analyst

    Ask a parcel anything in plain words. It answers from its own reading and says when the data is silent. The five standard questions stay free for everyone.

  • Reports

    A printable report for any reading. The maps, the narrative in full, the risks and what stands against them, and the checklist for the day you walk it.

Open the worked reading →
The land at a glance on a TERRA reading: the five pillars of Monteverde ridge drawn as petals around the score, with a strength, a risk, an unknown and the first move beside them

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Film

$5 a film

A 30-second narrated film of a parcel, made from its reading.

Every add-on, on the pricing page →

Owning land

Read your land in private, then share the page with the family.

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