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Maurice Small offers comprehensive consulting services tailored to diverse needs, specializing in garden and farm builds that cater to both individual and business or community requirements. Whether you are an individual or family seeking to enhance access to fresh, organic food while connecting with the earth, or a business, institution, or municipality in need of a Farm to Fork initiative, Maurice provides expert guidance to meet your unique needs. His commitment extends to diverse sectors, including restaurants, colleges/universities, cities/municipalities, regional governments, non-profits, hospitals, and other institutions, ensuring sustainable, effective, and profitable outcomes.

For those venturing into Farm Development, Maurice provides organic and permaculture-focused expertise to ensure sustainability, effectiveness, and profitability. Whether you are a startup seeking guidance for a profitable and effective farm or an established business looking to incorporate permaculture principles for both environmental benefits and increased profitability, Maurice offers tailored solutions. Additionally, Maurice extends his expertise to Land Conservation Use, providing expert guidance for the conservation and sustainable use of land, ensuring that it aligns with your goals and values.

Maurice is available to provide consulting support for farming, gardening and food systems projects and initiatives. Here are some previous project highlights that he has completed.

He has:

• Guided houses of worship across multiple states to create food systems from small church gardens to 17-acre farm operations to feed their congregants and surrounding communities.

• Conducted comprehensive assessments of a family-owned properties, offering insights to determine optimal uses that honor the family legacy while ensuring sustainability and profitability.

• Created garden/farm plans for individuals and families who had a vision to grow their own food.

• Established a resilient food system within a nationally recognized regional healthcare network. This involved cultivating farmer relationships, developing a sustainable business model, creating garden sites, implementing a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and integrating an educational component. This initiative has successfully operated for over a decade.

• Provided coaching to schools and school systems, guiding them on effective ways to incorporate botany, agriculture, and food-related topics into their curriculum. Simultaneously, developed farm and garden sites on their properties, fostering hands-on learning experiences.

• Assisted established farmers in optimizing their production processes and cultivation techniques. The focus was on increasing efficiency and sustainability through the implementation of organic growing methods, ultimately enhancing profitability.

• Developed agriculture-related tourism and education strategies for regional governments, encompassing policy development and budgetary planning to promote sustainable growth and engagement.

• Collaborated with community groups and local governments to establish community-based composting systems, serving thousands of families. This initiative contributes to environmental sustainability while addressing the waste management needs of the community.

Maurice offers consultation services to farmers and growers of all kinds, specializing in creating rich, healthy, dynamic, and living soil for family vegetables or successful farms. Maurice can assist growers of vegetables, herbs, and cannabis to maximize plant health, reduce disease risks, and increase bioavailable nutrients in the soil to enhance plant vitality, nutrition, and potency. With over three decades of proven success, Maurice focuses on alchemizing the richest and most vibrant soil using simple, low-cost ingredients, time, energy, and a vision for restoring earth's vitality. Working with Maurice is an opportunity to significantly enhance your growing capacity via your soil.

Maurice is available to provide consulting support for innovative projects and initiatives. Here are some previous project highlights that he has completed.

He has:

• Created community-based composting systems that incorporate local businesses and a vision to create community systems that serve people and the earth.

• Built dedicated processes to support local food/beverage businesses in their efforts to work smarter by incorporating composting and reuse of waste to create vital, healthy soil for local growers.

• Created soil amendments and inputs from available resources utilizing permaculture and biodynamic principles.

• Established vermicomposting systems for restaurants, schools, community organizations, places of worship and local governments to reduce landfill waste and increase healthy soil creation.

• Trained farmers and growers to build and incorporate composting systems that improve farm/growing capacity, enhance plant health and increase profitability of the operation.