Our Mission
Tools to help people grow their own food
Our goal is to help people grow their own food, particularly for those who really need it.
What we're building
Our first product — the Wicking Bed Appliance (WBA) — is the starting point. It's a water-efficient self-watering planter designed to work in apartments, patios, schoolyards, and community gardens with no specialized knowledge and a fraction of the water conventional beds require.
But the WBA is a means, not an end. Our goal is to make home food production a normal, sustainable, everyday practice for millions of people.
If we succeed
With sufficient adoption and funding, here is what Home Garden Farms intends to do.
Scale access to home growing
Bring the WBA to a price and form factor that works for apartment dwellers, food-bank gardens, schools, and small-lot homeowners alike.
Build a connected growing network
Develop a companion app and sensor kit so WBA owners can share real growing data — which crops thrive in which climates, what planting schedules work, how much water is saved per harvest.
Reduce the carbon footprint of food
The average North American meal travels over 2,400 km to reach the table. Every WBA producing leafy greens, herbs, or tomatoes locally offsets that journey. At scale, we believe distributed home production can take a measurable and auditable bite out of food-system emissions.
Expand the ecosystem
Design complementary systems — composting units, vertical growing towers, aquaponic attachments — that turn a single WBA into a complete home food-growing ecosystem. Each component built to the same standards: water-efficient, durable, repairable, and open-source where possible.
Our values
Water stewardship
Every product and design decision starts with the question: how much water does this save? We design for efficiency first.
Radical accessibility
Good tools should be affordable. Our DIY designs are freely shared — we want more gardens in the world, not just our gardens.
Honest science
We measure what we claim. Water-savings figures, yield data, and environmental impact numbers are published, sourced, and updated as we learn.
Community over competition
We open-source our core designs and support others building similar things. Distributed resilience in the food system is the goal.
Who we are
Home Garden Farms is a small team of engineers, gardeners, and food-system thinkers. We are currently pre-revenue, building toward our first production run of the WBA. The product exists in prototype form and the growing data we're collecting confirms the design works.
If you believe in what we're doing — as a potential investor, partner, school or community program, or just a person who wants to grow their own food — we'd love to hear from you.
Start growing today
The WBA is available now, or build one yourself with our free DIY guide.