The Humblefactory

Urban living demands novel ways of engaging with ecosystems and with human techno-systems in order to support all the diverse characters with a stake in the game. We're inventing everything from open sourced motorized wheelbarrows, to snail micro-farming operations, and doing it on an urban lot scale.

We love the permaculture idea, but we find that many permaculture or forest garden design examples are too large-scale, or two chaotic to be implemented in most urban sites, so we're prototyping our own mix that responds to Seattle's unique challenges - especially slope and short, dry growing seasons.

As a product designer, our founder Dominic knows that a major source of the damage that we do to the environment comes from how we source materials from ecosystems around the world. We're experimenting with producing more of those materials hyper-locally, and even creating neighborhood-sourced products.

More than any of these one things on their own, we are trying to build a holistic vision of how people might live in cities which could be vibrant ecosystems on their own, BECAUSE people interact with and change them, not in spite of their human participants. We are trying to bring the Solarpunk genera of writing and art into reality.