Project Greenprint

Project Greenprint

Nonprofit application pending

A timber structure being built in a working rural landscape

Farm → Material → Building

What if the materials for your next building came from down the road?

What if the materials for your next building came from down the road?

What if the materials for your next building came from down the road?

SRSN is experimenting with ways to connect local agriculture, local manufacturing, and local construction. Instead of asking one part of the supply chain to take all the risk, we’re bringing the pieces together.

SRSN is experimenting with ways to connect local agriculture, local manufacturing, and local construction. Instead of asking one part of the supply chain to take all the risk, we’re bringing the pieces together.

Explore the Experiment

The problem

Three good questions can stop a whole system.

Three good questions can stop a whole system.

Farmer

“Who’s going to buy it?”

Farmers need confidence that a market exists before dedicating acreage to a new crop.

Processor

“Is there enough demand?”

Processing equipment and manufacturing require volume before the economics begin to work.

Builder

“Can I actually get it?”

Builders need reliable materials, specifications, pricing, and supply before incorporating something new into a project.

What if we connected the demand first?

Program 01

Farm to Build

Grow it here. Build with it here.

Local Farm

→

Harvest

→

Local Processing

→

Building Material

→

Local Builder

→

Local Project

SRSN is exploring regional supply chains where agricultural resources can become useful building materials without traveling halfway across the country first. Hemp is an early focus, but the idea is larger than one crop. We’re exploring hemp, wood fiber, agricultural waste, clay, lime, recycled materials, and other locally available resources.

SRSN is exploring regional supply chains where agricultural resources can become useful building materials without traveling halfway across the country first. Hemp is an early focus, but the idea is larger than one crop. We’re exploring hemp, wood fiber, agricultural waste, clay, lime, recycled materials, and other locally available resources.

MILES TRAVELED · COST · CARBON · PERFORMANCE · LOCAL ECONOMIC IMPACT

Follow Farm to Build

Program 02

Build the Demand

What if we knew something had a home before we made it?

Chicken Coop
Horse Bedding
Home Project
Building Materials
Commercial Project
Farmer Acreage

ONE PROJECT
20 bags

↓

TEN PROJECTS
300 bags

↓

ONE COMMUNITY
2,000 bags

A MARKET STARTS TO FORM.

A local material supply chain cannot grow on supply alone. Farmers need buyers. Processors need volume. Builders need availability. So SRSN is starting with the demand side too.

It Starts Here

Have a project? Pledge your interest.

Tell us what you may need in the future. This helps local growers, processors, manufacturers, and builders understand potential demand. This is an expression of interest, not a purchase commitment.

Program 03

Build Something

Less talking. More building.

Before attempting large-scale adoption, build small things and learn from them. Each demonstration becomes a real-world experiment: document the material source, cost, labor, construction time, performance, failures, lessons learned, and what we would do differently.

See What We’re Building

Chicken Coop
↓
Shed / Farm Structure
↓
Garden Structure
↓
Small Building
↓
Home
↓
Commercial Building

“How did it perform?”
“What broke?”
“What surprised us?”
“What would we change?”

The local loop

SRSN
Connecting the pieces.

SRSN
Connecting the pieces.

Farmer → grows material → Processor → creates product → Material → goes to → Builder → creates → Local Project → creates demand for → Farmer

Small experiments. Local lessons. Scalable ideas.

We’re not trying to predict what the future of sustainable construction looks like. We’d rather build a few versions and find out.

Small experiments. Local lessons. Scalable ideas.

We’re not trying to predict what the future of sustainable construction looks like. We’d rather build a few versions and find out.

Have a Project →

Follow What We’re Building →

Grow With Us →

Sponsor an Experiment →