Urban House Farms
{"type": "project", "title": "Urban House Farms", "logoImg": "bafkreihrbbe2u5b7bwwdb4y7mbnnffe4zwed3afbex7j2gkwelko4ky7ta", "website": "https://urbanhousefarms.com", "bannerImg": "bafybeicrh53ac5unzftfcppvmv56rxhpzyqhwgovydqp4dgbxez6by5qyq", "createdAt": 1729678013385, "credentials": {}, "description": "**Urban House Farms** is about regenerating cities. In the urban and suburban context, we do this by dispersing regeneration across multiple locations. We design, build and integrate organic farms into these properties and connect them through an on-chain food trading network.\n\nWe currently have 11 property owners signed-up and the number is quickly growing. We are excited to see an increasing number of people interested in growing their own food and the ones that already do, love giving to their neighbors and family members. \n[![Map.png](https://i.postimg.cc/Bvr744Wg/Map.png)](https://postimg.cc/8Fbmb8zJ)\n\nWith the **Food Trading Network** we aim to not only create localized community and interaction, but also provide an ROI for the investors and donors, whether is cash or impact. Our blockchain-enabled platform will optimize the coordination of funds, providers, and property owners, thus enabling an accelerated growth of regeneration.  \n\n[![IMG-9013.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/CxwPmSkB/IMG-9013.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/PPFQqG6T)\nMr. Pedro Rivera from Oakland, CA graciously giving us a dozen delicious passion fruits from his vine and signing up for more farm integrations in his property and trading. \n\nWith your support we will increase the number of proposals to property owners and investors, build the platform and continue improving the integrations between plants, water, energy and structures. See some of our progress below.\n\n\n\n---\n\n\n\nFirst, we would like to explain our long term vision in terms of design.\n\nOur initial projects include green roofs and green walls with low maintenance edible gardens and hydroponic systems that can be integrated to any type of structures. With bigger homes, as it is common in suburbs, we can also integrate mini-food forests in the yards. Here below an example:\n\n[![ecoterium-A-large-modern-home-in-Palo-Alto-California-With-wha-582ae0cf-7535-4009-9da7-19a8cbf01d2f.png](https://i.postimg.cc/QMB9cK4X/ecoterium-A-large-modern-home-in-Palo-Alto-California-With-wha-582ae0cf-7535-4009-9da7-19a8cbf01d2f.png)](https://postimg.cc/CZgxg5pt)\n\nWith **Building Integrated Farming (BIF)** and permaculture we can grow more healthy / localized food in Cities. And it becomes more advanced with bigger buildings such as a condominium building where we can house plants, people and create biodiverse habitats.\n\n[![ecoterium-A-2-3-story-mixed-used-building-with-modern-organic-c-6195e692-0148-4ab5-9517-ef630ab9ac4c.png](https://i.postimg.cc/XJfz7q08/ecoterium-A-2-3-story-mixed-used-building-with-modern-organic-c-6195e692-0148-4ab5-9517-ef630ab9ac4c.png)](https://postimg.cc/njLk3Hrj)\n\n\nWe have been working on designs with the BIF concept for over decade and during that time we discovered the **Solarpunk** movement which we clearly align with. Having this trajectory we believe that we are now very close to making Solarpunk environments a reality, especially in the the denser parts of cities. Here below, examples of farms integrated in small warehouses, restaurants or shops, and mixed used buildings. \n\n[![Warehouse-Apartment-02-v01.png](https://i.postimg.cc/66HhVnzZ/Warehouse-Apartment-02-v01.png)](https://postimg.cc/PNwZTLgf)\n\nAs the trend and the network grows, we will have the opportunity to partner with larger real estate developers, especially when the blockchain and **ReFi** movements develop wholistic capital that can generate the means to build regenerative skyscrapers and city blocks.  \n\n[![Mixed-Use-Skyscraper-01-v01-copy.png](https://i.postimg.cc/wB8GLLFz/Mixed-Use-Skyscraper-01-v01-copy.png)](https://postimg.cc/HrzzCJfv)\n\n\n\n---\n\nWe are currently organizing a **permablitz** to begin working on one of our first designs: A food forest in the large backyard of a suburban home in Concord, CA.\n\n[![Azita-Berlouis-02-Concord-01-Food-Forest-Plan-01.png](https://i.postimg.cc/bwHMNvcL/Azita-Berlouis-02-Concord-01-Food-Forest-Plan-01.png)](https://postimg.cc/yDxnLsNS)\n\nWe are also in the last stages of permitting for two adjacent single family homes with green roofs, green walls and shared mini-forest. And also a home addition with a hydroponics carport (more info about this on our website). \n\n[![Melvin-Screenshot-2024-10-23-004655.png](https://i.postimg.cc/qvDjb68t/Melvin-Screenshot-2024-10-23-004655.png)](https://postimg.cc/K1LP4zpF)\n\nIn recent months, we have been developing a model of relocatable raised beds with edible plants, fruit trees and vines that could be used for temporary facilities such as emergency housing. \n\n[![TREE-RING-VILLAGE-EXTERIOR-VIEW-05-R02-W.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/xj6rD5V8/TREE-RING-VILLAGE-EXTERIOR-VIEW-05-R02-W.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/c6tkfQHG)\n\n\nStay tuned with the progress in our website. In a few weeks, we will be posting about an innovative solarpunk window replacement panel that can be use for high-rise and skyscraper facade retrofits. \n\n\n\n---\n\nBy maximizing the number of Urban House Farms in both existing and new properties, and connecting them through a trading network, we are taking regenerative actions that align with values such as:\n* **Food security, health, and regenerative sustainability:** By growing a surplus of organic food locally.\n* **Community and collaboration:** By creating an interactive trading and worker network.\n* **Stewardship and biodiversity:** By restoring ecosystems through increasing natural capital and creating biodiverse habitats in urban areas.\n* **Innovation:** By influencing planning, design, and construction to be more regenerative, and adding transparency and efficiency through blockchain technology.\n\nWe are engaged in regenerative design and construction, permaculture, and organic farming, focused on restoring ecosystems and local food production. We support local trading with transparency and low fuel use, and build community through collaboration. Using **DMRV**, we ensure transparency and track the impact of our regenerative actions. Funding will help scale these efforts and enhance our trading network.\n\nOur team combines architecture, solar, permaculture, construction, real estate development, ReFi, data science, networking and sales expertise.  \n\nHere below our team, and our contractors and ReFi partners:\n\n[Alvaro Cabal, CEO, COO](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaro-cabal-15177221/)\n\n[Eve Marenghi, CRO](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eve-marenghi-48791695/)\n\nMax Kim, CSO\n\n[Edible Ecology, Landscape Contractor](https://www.edibleecology.net/)\n\nValdez Construction, General Contractor\n\n[ReFi Bay Area](https://x.com/ReFiBayArea)\n\n[ReFi Red Hook](https://www.instagram.com/refiredhook/)\n\n\n\n---\n\nWe are considering including the following assessments to provide a clear picture of our project's effectiveness and contributions to regeneration:\n\n1.  **Ecological Impact Assessment:** Biodiversity Metrics, Soil Health\n\n2.  **Social Impact Assessment:** Community Engagement Levels, Food Security\n\n3.  **Economic Impact Assessment:** Local Economic Activity, Cost Savings \n\n4.  **Sustainability Metrics:** Carbon Footprint, Resource Use Efficiency\n\n5.  **Regenerative Design Metrics:** Building Performance, Resilience Indicators\n\n6. **Stakeholder Feedback:** Surveys and Interviews\n\n7.  **Long-term Monitoring:** Continuous Monitoring Programs\n\n\n\n---\n\nWe believe our work is crucial not only for urban spaces but for the planet as a whole. Cities, where most of the world's population lives and grows, have a significant negative environmental impact. Our work aims to reverse that by making cities regenerative.\n\nWith additional funding, we can expand our efforts to make more projects regenerative, scale up to hundreds of proposals to property owners and developers, and build an important and functioning regenerative food network. \n\n**Join Us in Regenerating Cities!**\n\nBy contributing to Urban House Farms, you are helping transform urban spaces into regenerative, thriving ecosystems. Together, we can accelerate and maximize regeneration while influencing and making an impact now, and creating the cities of the future. This is our line of work, and we reinvest our revenues into furthering regeneration. No matter what, we will continue - but every contribution, no matter the size, directly fuels our passion to make cities regenerative and resilient.\n\nHelp us create exciting and thriving environments, grow healthier food, restore more ecosystems, and build stronger connections. **Let’s maximize regeneration now and create a legacy for generations to come !**\n\n\n\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "UrbanHouseFarms"}