San Diego nonprofit
Turning empty lots into places that grow food and shade.
Compact, low-cost farms that create new sources of produce and urban greening.
Mission
Local produce and green space, on land that sat empty.
Hyphi is a nonprofit committed to creating urban interventions for local produce and green space: compact, low-cost farms, grown with organic methods.
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Fresh food access
New sources of local produce, grown in the neighborhood.
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Urban greening and cooling
Plants and living shade where there was bare gravel in full sun, radiating heat.
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Soil and sustainability
Organic methods that turn gravel into growing ground, on very little funding.
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Community
Our pilot’s weekly farm stand was a regular gathering point for the block.
Pilot
Gravel lot to green in three months.
At Allied Gardens Neighborhood Farm in San Diego, our pilot turned an empty gravel lot into a productive farm using organic methods, within three months and on very little funding.
We recently completed the pilot program, which ran weekly farm stands.
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Before
Bare gravel, full sun, radiating heat.
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Three months
Green and producing on very little funding.
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Two years
Raised beds, hoop houses and living shade.
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The farm stand
A regular gathering point for the block.
Team
The people behind Hyphi.
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Etienne Doidic
- 8+ years of community gardening and urban farming in San Diego, including as primary caretaker of the pilot farm.
- Certified greywater and rainwater capture installer.
- GIS and site suitability analysis; built lotfinder.us.
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Craig Hoshijima
- 25+ years as a consultant to state and local governments and nonprofits.
- Federal grant administration, including USDOT New Starts, CMAQ and Clean Water Act programs.
- Former consultant to The California Endowment on healthy food access.
Contact
Have land, funding, or ideas?
We’d like to hear from landowners, city and county partners, schools, funders and volunteers.
- etienne@hyphi.com
- Based in
- San Diego, California