SEED: Planting today for a resilient tomorrow

SEED marries function and form in a technologically innovative yet user-friendly growing system that increases food security while reducing ecological impact.

Long Description

Growth begins with a seed. 

Reducing food insecurity and increasing resilience requires improved irrigation, increased yields, soil and biological resource conservation and a flexible, future-forward delivery system.  Our team meets those challenges through the development of the SEED prototype.  Our strategy has a twofold objective: promote self-sufficiency through an efficient, user-intuitive product and promote resiliency through food system maturation.

We are working with organizations and promotores – permaculture farmers – in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba to support their commitment to sustainable farm processes.  Optimal in our urban agriculture work is a focus on aquaponics, automation and renewable energy.  Our agriculture model and prototype has evolved and produced outstanding yields — in a challenging physical, social and political environment.  We have had an opportunity to adapt our methods to utilize low-cost technologies in a product that satisfies six elements: replication, sustainability, renewable and compact packaging, ease of use, efficiency and increased productivity (of crop yields).

A key problem of development and growth of sustainable growing and renewable energy resources is often the limited guarantee of necessary equipment and spare parts. Importantly, our SEED project addresses this by introducing opportunities to innovate and conserve with technology that has not been generally available in some communities. 

With decades of experience in areas of agriculture, architecture, systems design, sustainability, product design and technology, our team has positioned itself towards an ultimate goal of “precision agriculture” — to help farm entrepreneurs at multiple, global sites conserve water, improve soil health, minimize waste, and most importantly, increase yields.