🧚🏾Here I was thinking we’re the first snail farm in Texas
I claimed that title everywhere — social media bios, grant applications, casual conversations — for a good year and a half before discovering I was wrong. And honestly? I’m still s👀ide-eyeing everyone who saw it and didn’t fact-check me. Come on!
Feedback is my lifeblood.👵🏾 I’m a designer.
#nosyozi
That moment wasn’t just humbling; it was clarifying. It reminded me that just because an idea makes perfect sense to me doesn’t mean it’s clear to the general public. During a discovery call with a local foundation months ago, I explained our “smart compost and protein system designed around heliciculture” and saw the head tilt back and the eyebrows raise. You know the one.
As nosy-Ozi, that tilt pulls me deeper, into the underground lattice of our cultural mycelium. There, I trace the threads from tradition to science, soil to story, until I find the nodes we all share.
From Velvet & Maple to Mama Kuku’s Homestead. From BioCycle Hub to the EscarGrow™ family. I don’t change because I’m restless. I change because the truth is alive, and living things evolve. Velvet & Maple was a whisper; herbs drying in the corner, memory like soft fabric between fingers, healing in the margins. Mama Kuku arrived robust/whole; breathing in with family in its lungs and earth under its nails.
BioCycle Hub began as a modular snail-powered compost lab. But listening reshapes design. Editing rewrites the possible. Months passed, thousands of hours, countless conversations, and suddenly, it wasn’t a hub. It was a living system with an offspring: EscarGrow™ Mini, scaled for homes and classrooms; EscarGrow™ Pro, built for schools, gardens, anchor institutions. You can call them germinations.
That’s what iteration does: it sharpens, translates, responds. It listens to burnt-out teachers, displaced farmers, overworked caregivers, curious kids, and communities tired of hearing “sustainability” without being shown how.
We iterate out loud because transparency is the only honest way forward when the work lives in community. So far, we’ve [Helical Healing Habitat] partnered with organizations like Cuisine for Healing, we’re fiscally sponsored by EarthShare and earned support from visionary funders such as the Christopher Reynolds Foundation. And we’re just getting started.
If you’ve seen our name change, our model shift, our story stretch; it’s because we’re paying attention. To science. To story. To you. This is what a climate-adapted system looks like in real time.
If you’ve been here since the velvet days, thank you. If you just arrived, welcome. Either way, don’t mind me. I’m 🫰🏾just 🫰🏾iterating🫰🏾.
