Built by someone who's stood on the water
BottomBee Farms is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that turns satellite imagery into clear, dated, plain-English reports on land and water conditions — for developers, growers, and site teams across the US, Canada, and Europe.
Photo of founder Brandon Bottomley, or the Ostra Farms oyster lease site
A working oyster lease near St. Augustine
BottomBee Farms grew out of Ostra Farms, a submerged-land oyster lease Brandon Bottomley operated near St. Augustine, Florida. Running it meant understanding a coastal site — its depth, its water, and what was on the bottom — without paying for a full boat survey every time a question came up.
The analytical tools he built to answer those questions turned out to apply well beyond the lease: to crop fields, construction parcels, timber tracts, and coastal sites facing the same kind of question. That's the report library BottomBee Farms offers today.
Photo of the Ostra Farms oyster lease or St. Augustine coastline
Headshot of Brandon Bottomley
Brandon Bottomley, Owner & Analyst
Brandon personally prepares every report BottomBee Farms delivers. He holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of Florida and a master's degree in the same field from Florida State University, with extensive training in Geographic Information Systems.
A documented, repeatable process
Every report uses calibrated, government-issued satellite imagery processed through a documented pipeline built on established, published remote-sensing methods. When a site calls for more detail, BottomBee Farms can partner with a licensed drone pilot to fill in the gaps.
One important boundary: these are monitoring and reconnaissance products, not land surveys. They do not set property corners, certify boundaries, or produce stamped elevations or volumes. A professional engineer or surveyor provides certification when that's required.