We seek to empower families facing housing displacement with the resources, knowledge, and time needed to regain control of their homes. We achieve this by integrating financial literacy education with the transformative practice of regenerative urban agriculture, turning threatened yards into resilient, productive Urban Food Forests.
The Crisis & Our Solution
In the cities we love, families are displaced by financial crisis, their homes becoming casualties of a system that offers quick fixes but not lasting empowerment. Arbor Cibus Development steps in with a paradigm shift: We secure the property, providing a critical pause through our Earn-Back Agreement.
This is more than a momentary help – it’s a path to autonomy. While living in their homes, participating families commit to transforming their land into thriving, biodiverse food forests. Simultaneously, they engage in essential life-skills training, covering financial management, communication, and entrepreneurial development.
Our model creates self-sustaining nodes of resilience:
- 🏡 Housing Security: Providing a safe, stable home base while the family builds capacity.
- 🍎 Food Autonomy: Teaching the skills to grow an abundance of perennial, free food.
- đź’ˇ Financial Empowerment: Equipping families with the knowledge to manage wealth and successfully buy back their homes.
Our Vision
We envision a future where every urban center is a mosaic of life—where concrete sprawl gives way to a decentralized network of Urban Food Forests. Each forest is a beacon of hope, documenting a successful journey from crisis to self-sufficiency. Through our unique, documented model, we will inspire and replicate this process until housing displacement and food insecurity are problems of the past.
We are not just planting trees; we are cultivating life-changing resilience, biodiversity, and community wealth—one family and one food forest at a time.
See our plan
A detailed description of the earn-back plan and how we hope to save people’s homes.
By funding our projects, you are doing more than planting trees.
Empowering families facing housing displacement.
Displacement is the singular, highest-value problem solved by the legal structure (Earn-Back Agreement). This is the core business.
Integrating financial literacy with regenerative urban agriculture.
Emphasizes the full scope of the education required (finance, NVC, time management) and the unique pairing with agriculture.
Creating self-sustaining nodes of resilience and documenting the journey.
Focuses on the impact of the food forest (resilience/autonomy) and highlights the unique, monetized documentation component (YouTube/Community Platform), which is critical to the business model.
With your help, we can create these multi-purple nodes of life within the city.
Would you like to join us on our journey?
Will you help us plant the seeds for our first Urban Food Forest?
Let’s create positive impact in our cities.
Keep in touch!
- Become a student of regenerative agriculture
- Work with us to create edible gardens across the city
- Have your land turned into a food forest + housing
