Millions globally practice urban agriculture, while governments and non-profit organizations are increasingly promoting it to enhance urban food security, health, community building, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental management. Urban agriculture can include food production and animal husbandry, and is 3-5 times more productive per acre than traditional large-scale agriculture. On the 1/3 acre at Little City Farm the urban agriculture projects are continuously in motion with each new season. We offer ongoing workshops in the area of urban agriculture on topics such as permaculture, beekeeping, herb drying, composting, fruit tree pruning, seed starting, and bio-intensive gardening.
Urban food production on our homestead includes:
Growing much of the produce to sustain our family in our 12 raised garden beds
Growing and wild-harvesting more than 100 varieties of edible and medicinal herbs on our property
Tending edible fruit trees (apple, pear, cherry, pin cherry, mulberry, chum, damson plum, sea buckthorn, black walnut)
Developing a food forest by integrating our herbs, berry bushes, and fruit trees into partnerships
Growing other perennials like rhubarb, blueberries, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, currents, gooseberries, elderberries, black berries, logan berries, chokecherries, shrub cherries, hascaps
Growing more than 12 kinds of edible flowers (including violets, marigolds, nasturtium, rose, borage, sage, lavender, thyme, calendula & more!)
Cultivating woodland shiitake and oyster mushrooms using inoculated oak logs
Establishing a woodland herb area to grow nettles, wild leeks, wild ginger and other shade-loving herbs
