Earth Day weekend. A hackathon challenge. One question rattling around in my head: What if you could hand an AI a photo of your backyard and get back a complete permaculture design? That idea became Agentic Acres, a fully deployed web app that uses multimodal AI, real-time geolocation, and a dynamic media pipeline to generate personalized plant guild recommendations. Here's exactly how I built it, the decisions I made along the way, and what surprised me. What Is a Plant Guild (and Why Does I...

How I Built an AI-Powered Permaculture Assistant in a Weekend (and What I Learned)