Business Plan: To develop a sustainable agri-tourism activity placing equal value on running a viable agriculture business

as well as on attracting tourist who come not only to enjoy the river and the wild life, but to see and

participate in sustainable multi-disciplinary farming and craft activities.

Upland pine forests dotted with persimmon, turkey oak, sweetgum, flowering dogwood and other shrubs are found. Open canopy forests combine different types of pine and dense groundcover such as gallberry, saw palmetto, wiregrass, wild blueberry and wax myrtle. Along the river, the forest is dominated by various species of oaks and hickory, red maple, sycamore, magnolia, holly, tupelo and azaleas. The water level in the floodplain and swamp lakes fluctuates and may even become completely dry. Plants vary according to the water supply. Look for water fern, water lily, coontail, bladderwort, spatterdock and other emergent plants.

Several species of the uncommon carnivorous pitcher plant are found in abundance throughout the forest in soils saturated with water. Other types of carnivorous plants found include: glistening sundews, butterwort and bladderworts.  Nearby areas contain over 12 species of carnivorous plants from including 5 species of pitcher plants, 2 sprecies of butterworts and several species of sundews.  Nearby on the Forever Wild Preserve is one of the largest know populations of the globally imperiled Panhandle lily (Lilium iridollae). Some of the unique and rare plants known from the site include: Chapman’s butterwort, white-topped pitcher plant, Wherry’s sweet pitcher plant, purple pitcher plant, parrot pitcher plant, yellow trumpets, sundews, Chapman's butterwort, spoonflower, pineland bogbutton, Drummond’s yellow-eyed grass, Chapman’s yellow-eyed grass, and many others.