West Side High School Rider Farms Concept 

Pharos Charter School Roof Garden Concept

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What if your school was also a productive urban farm where you could work?

What if your apartment building was surrounded with native plants and greenery that you could eat?

What if you could compost food waste to become soil for your own garden instead of pollution in a landfill?

What if your building captured rain water and sunlight and used it efficiently toward utilities?

Why should ‘affordable housing’ not also be healthy, integrated, permanent housing?

Raised Bed from Recycled wood, organic soil and plant based weather sealing

Planting Seeds of Hope is engaged in Green Community Development Projects that build upon our past 15 years of community work, our local knowledge, and our love and care for each block where we have built realationships.

Green Community Development is our effort to create urban spaces for locally-based business, housing and neighborhood facilities that work within the environment and the food system. These are small to medium scale development mini-campuses that work with the existing context of the neighborhoods while providing an imaginative vision of urbanism where nature and human buildings no longer compete for space; one where “the enviornment” is not a separate other apart from how we live our daily lives. 

Green roof, landscaping and semi permeable surfaces concept

Our cities should strive to integrate nature and build within the context of the local ecosystem, not over top of it, or trying to otherwise remove it. We are working on green affordable housing, small commerical and retail spaces, multi-functional shared spaces and facilities, productive small farms, and the creation of local food system business growth all in the context of climate change and resilience in the face of an unkonwn future.

Below is a full range of design and ecological restoration from our go to partner:

Agrario Ecological Restoration and Food System Design