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Challenging Forces LLC develops sunlight-powered plant systems that not only reduce atmospheric carbon but also provide essential co-benefits such as fresh oxygen, edible biomass, shade, and pollinator habitat. Our innovation suite—which includes the Climate Garden, Greenhouse, Tower, and Farm—utilizes vertical gardening systems with vertically suspended planters and closed-loop irrigation to maximize plant density and simplify horticulture. These systems can be effectively deployed in diverse environments—urban rooftops, rural landscapes, and even near pollution-emitting facilities—making them accessible, affordable, and impactful. By suspending photosynthetic filters in the low atmosphere, we enhance spatial efficiency while relying solely on natural resources like sunlight and gravity. This closed-loop model eliminates the need for artificial lighting, heating, or cooling, providing scalable carbon capture without environmental trade-offs. Challenging Forces transforms overlooked spaces into regenerative microclimates, merging carbon reduction with food production, biodiversity support, and visual appeal—creating a replicable model for climate resilience across communities.
Climate Research and Development
Challenging Forces needs investors and business accelerators to fully realize our climate threat counteraction ambitions. We aim to be the future of indoor and outdoor air carbon capture, utilizing photosynthesis-based air filtration and closed-loop irrigation systems to enhance air quality in every conceivable human-altered space. By reaching upwards with structures dedicated exclusively to vertical gardening systems and hyperdense plants, humanity can stimulate the bioprocessing of far more sunlight while effectively capturing airborne carbon that is inaccessible to ground-rooted plants. Existing products and prototypes fail to adequately convey the vertical potential of closed-loop vertical ecosystems and farms. Sunlit walls of tall buildings are ideal mounting spaces for 50- to 500-foot Climate Gardens, which would create extensive shade, reduce air conditioning expenses, and grow food or wildlife habitat. Challenging Forces will experiment with tethered balloon elevation of plants to combat weather threats like heat domes and sunlight overexposure above water. We are also developing mobile vertical plant support structures to rapidly engage with air pollution from wildfires.
Product Development and Testing
Transform Your Home and Garden with Challenging Forces
Challenging Forces LLC has validated key tenets of its carbon capture strategy: vertically suspended gardens, closed-loop irrigation systems, fractal plant arrangements for spatial efficiency, and solar-powered vertical farming. In 2023, we tested five Climate Garden prototypes—single columns of planters with recirculating irrigation—across indoor and outdoor sites in three climate-diverse states. These units demonstrated robust plant growth, supporting air carbon absorption through photosynthesis-based air filtration. In 2024, we built and evaluated two freestanding Climate Greenhouses (120 cubic feet each) containing 22 and 38 plants respectively. Both systems sustained agricultural crops, confirming functionality, spatial scaling, and aesthetic. In 2025, we began public sales of Climate Gardens via our website and farmers market kiosks. We also partnered with Future Farm AgriTech for third-party plant health monitoring and data tracking. Precise measurement of air carbon capture remains a strategic milestone, and we’re actively seeking technology partners to support ongoing validation and performance tracking.
We offer consumer-ready Climate Gardens online and at farmers' markets, each capturing 1.5–2 kg of air carbon annually. By late 2025, we will upgrade irrigation systems across all suspended garden units. In 2025, we will finalize our Climate Greenhouse model—an open 8' cube hosting 120 suspended gardens—and launch publicly in spring 2026. This structure will enable abundant, affordable home food production while capturing up to 60 kg of carbon per unit annually. In 2026, we will prototype the Climate Tower, starting with a 12' version suspending 20 plants and advancing to a 24' model with 40 plants, capturing 20 kg annually. Also in 2026, we begin prototyping the Climate Farm—an expandable grid of greenhouses—starting with a 2×2 configuration supporting 480 plants and capturing 240 kg of carbon annually. By the end of 2027, our first 10×10 Climate Farm will support 12,000 plants and capture 6,000 kg annually. Fractal design allows indefinite scalability across urban and rural environments.
