Urban Hub Farms

San Francisco Food-Growing Pilot

Small indoor farm concept for the San Francisco Phase 1 pilot.

Project Story

Urban Hub Farms is a San Francisco food-growing pilot prototype. This first phase focuses on one practical step: preparing a small indoor growing and gathering space, exploring a roof-garden pathway, planting a first crop cycle, inviting local participation, and documenting what is learned.

What We Learned

Urban Hub Farms grows out of a larger vision for food-producing homes, rooftop and wall gardens, living buildings, and regenerative community spaces. Over time, the work has moved through public campaigns, market studies, community conversations, design explorations, and practical lessons about what can actually be funded, built, documented, and
trusted.

Instead of asking supporters to believe the whole long-term vision at once, this application focuses on one grounded pilot: one San Francisco space, one small indoor farm and roof-garden pathway, one growing season, and clear documentation of what works.

Urban Hub Farms has evolved through public presentations, community conversations, visionary design work, and food-resilience planning.

What This Round Funds

This round will support a simple indoor growing / roof-garden design package, starter growing materials, basic water and site-preparation materials, community work-session support, project delivery labor, and documentation.

Community And Design Exploration

The ecosystem around the project includes earlier Urban House Farms / ReFi BayArea work, Artizen Season 5 and Season 6 creative-regeneration support, Simocracy / Regen Room community-governance learning, relationship-building around respectful community work, recent food-resilience conversations, and verbal encouragement from community contacts.
These are not all formal endorsements, and we will only name supporters publicly with permission. Together, they show that the project has been shaped through real community learning, not only private imagination.

Related design exploration for turning urban buildings into food-growing, learning, and gathering places. Concept study only; not a site commitment or endorsement.

Keeping The Project Evidence-Aware

Zentient is an AI-assisted planning and documentation studio that helps regenerative projects turn broad visions into clear, evidence-aware plans. For Urban Hub Farms, Zentient supports the project through a proof-plan workflow: organizing the plan, labeling what is proven or unproven, identifying missing evidence and permissions, and helping avoid impact claims before the evidence exists.

This keeps the project practical, transparent, and easier for supporters, reviewers, and community partners to evaluate.

The Near-Term Goal And Long-Term Commitment

Urban Hub Farms is starting with one grounded pilot, but the long-term vision is a future network of living buildings, food-growing homes, roof gardens, and community food hubs across San Francisco and beyond. This application funds only the first practical step. We are beginning small because we want the work to be real, documented, and permission-safe; we are continuing because the need for local food resilience, community gathering spaces, and regenerative urban infrastructure is long-term.

Long-term vision exploration: a future network of living buildings and food-growing hubs. The current application funds only the first grounded pilot step.