A one-person workshop.
Built by hand. Taught honestly.

It started with a frustration.

A few years ago I wanted a hydroponic tower for my kitchen. I figured I'd buy one. Twenty minutes into shopping, I closed every tab. The good ones cost $400-$700 — for a plastic cylinder and a pump that costs $24 wholesale. The cheap ones were Amazon copies that broke in six weeks.

So I bought the cheap one. It broke in six weeks.

Then I designed my own.

The first one took 14 prints and a lot of nutrient on the floor.

I'm a maker, not an engineer. The first tower leaked. The second one had pods that fell out. The third one's pump burned out because I'd undersized it. By the time the eighth version was sitting on my kitchen counter quietly growing basil, I'd ruined a piece of hardwood floor and learned more about flow rate, head height, and food-safe plastics than I ever wanted to.

"The version that finally worked wasn't the smartest one — it was the simplest one."

That's the version we sell now. 32 pods, one pump, no software, no app, no subscription. Just plumbing and plants.

Then friends started asking for one.

I printed three more. Then five. Then ten. At some point my neighbor's kid asked if she could buy one for her sixth-grade science project. That's when I figured I should probably make a website.

This is the website. I still print every tower in my workshop. The pump is the same one I run in my own kitchen. The PDF is what I wrote when I was teaching myself. Nothing on this site is here to extract money — it's all stuff I'd hand to a friend.

What this place actually is.

Part workshop, part education platform, part DIY community. The shop pays the bills. The YouTube channel and PDF guides are how I keep the door open to people who want to do it themselves. The community wall is for the growers who already did.

If you're a beginner — start with the free YouTube tutorials and the $14.99 DIY guide. If you'd rather skip the printing — grab the 32-pod kit and start in an afternoon. If you're a school, restaurant, or farm — I'll build whatever you need at whatever scale you need it.

The brand promise is simple: I'll never sell you anything I wouldn't run in my own kitchen.