Maurice Small of Small Farmz offers consulting that helps you bring your growing vision to life. With over three decades of experience, he guides individuals, businesses, and communities in creating thriving gardens, farms, and food systems. His approach blends sustainability with profitability—so you not only grow healthier soil and stronger plants, but also cultivate resilience and lasting success.
Maurice Small of Small Farmz offers consulting services that support farm and garden development for individuals, schools, businesses, and communities. His practical, tailored approach deepens your connection to the land while building pathways to fresh, sustainable food
From farm-to-fork initiatives to soil creation and land conservation strategies, Maurice helps you choose the right tools and techniques to reach your goals. Every plan is customized to your vision and values.
With 30+ years of hands-on expertise, Maurice has earned trust as a leader in soil health and sustainable food systems. Partner with Small Farmz consulting to access proven strategies that restore soil, honor the earth, and unlock new opportunities for growth and profitability.
Maurice is your go-to consultant for farming, gardening, soil building, educational projects, food systems initiatives, and groundbreaking ideas yet to be explored.
How can Maurice Help?
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Maurice guides houses of worship across multiple states to create food systems from small church gardens to 17-acre farm operations to feed their members as well as surrounding communities.
Maurice provides expert guidance and advising for national faith-based organizations in order to build resilient food systems via their local and regional members.
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Maurice creates community-based composting systems that incorporate local businesses and a vision to create community systems that serve people and the earth.
Maurice creates soil amendments and inputs from available resources utilizing permaculture and biodynamic principles to support the health and vitality of vegetables, cannabis and herbs.
Maurice establishes vermicomposting systems for restaurants, schools, community organizations, places of worship and local governments to reduce landfill waste and increase healthy soil creation.
Maurice trains farmers and growers to build and incorporate composting systems that improve farm/growing capacity, enhance plant health and increase profitability of the operation.
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Maurice conducts comprehensive assessments of family-owned properties, offering insights to determine optimal uses that honor the family legacy while ensuring sustainability and profitability.
Maurice creates garden/farm plans for individuals and families who have a vision to grow their own food.
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Maurice builds 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.
Maurire trains and supports chefs to create kitchen gardens and farms in order to provide their own infusion of hyper-local food to their local cuisine.
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Maurice built 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.
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Maurice provides coaching to schools and school systems, guiding them on effective ways to incorporate botany, agriculture, and food-related topics into their curriculum. Simultaneously, develops farm and garden sites on their properties, fostering hands-on learning experiences.
Maurice creates unique, hands-on, farm-focused entrepreneurial training programs for adjudicated youth that reduce recidivism and increase positive educational, social and community outcomes for participants.
Contributes to research initiatives at all educational levels (from elementary students to PhD post-doctoral fellows) to enhance our understanding and documentation of the successes of soil creation, plant health, food systems development, and other related topics.
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Maurice assists beginning and established farmers in optimizing their production processes and cultivation techniques. The focus is on increasing efficiency and sustainability through the implementation of organic growing methods, ultimately enhancing profitability.
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Maurice develops agriculture-related tourism and education strategies for regional governments, encompassing policy development and budgetary planning to promote sustainable growth and engagement.
Maurice collaborates 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.
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Maurice guides non-profit leadership and staff to develop dynamic, thoughtful, research-informed, best-practice driven garden/farm/soil programming for people from 0 - 100.
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