Grow with ClayPonicDiscover 3D-printed ceramic towers, kits, and installations that make urban growing joyful.
Where vertical farming meets ceramic artistry.
A quieter garden, printed in clay.
ClayPonic is a replicable, deployable, environmentally conscious soilless agriculture system, a small dialogue with cities about what self-sufficient food can look like.
Ceramic, by intention.
Hand-tuned 3D-printed terracotta, porous, breathable, alive with a biofilm that plants prefer to plastic.
Soilless, year-round.
Roots suspended in a quiet, nutrient-rich mist. No mud, no monoculture, just steady, sovereign growth.
Architectural by default.
Made to live in lobbies, kitchens, courtyards. A column of food that doubles as a centerpiece.
Lighter on the planet.
~90% less water than soil. No pesticides. Local clay, local food, local loop.
Restraint, measured in what we don't use.
ClayPonic was designed against waste: water, land, miles, pesticide. The numbers below are the quiet ones we're proudest of.
vs. soil-based farming
indoors, year-round
fully soilless system
from your room, your roof
Three towers. One philosophy.
A small dialogue with the city about what food could be.
ClayPonic began as a question. Could the oldest material we know (clay) and one of the newest tools we have (a printer) make something that feeds a household, quietly, every day of the year?
By integrating machinery, materiality, and ecology, the project aspires to a deployable system: one capable of addressing pressing urban-food challenges while deepening human connection to the natural world.
We think of each tower less as a product, more as a meditative object: an invitation to engage with nature contemplatively, in the rooms where we already live.
Five senses, one standing thing.
A short film on what it feels like to stand near one. Best with sound. The trickle is half the point.