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.

Permaculture gardening on our homestead includes:

Growing much of the produce to sustain our family in our 12 raised garden beds using permaculture methods

• 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
• Integrating many perennials like rhubarb, asparagus, blueberries, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, currents, gooseberries, elderberries, black berries, logan berries, chokecherries, shrub cherries, hascaps into our gardens & food forest areas
• Growing 12+ kinds of edible flowers (e.g. violets, marigolds, nasturtium, rose, borage, sage, lavender, thyme, calendula)
• 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
• Establishing a dye-plant herbal garden (including alkanet, tansy, yarrow, goldenrod, mullein, coreopsis)
• 15+ years of hosting our annual Organic Seedling Sale on the May long weekend (from 2001-2016) here at our location
• Saving seeds each fall to help preserve heritage seed varieties
• Growing winter greens, sprouts and microgreens in our passive solar greenhouse
• Composting and vermicomposting our kitchen and garden scraps
• Keeping a small happy flock of backyard hens who produce eggs and manure
• Pollinator-friendly habitats, including woodland areas, open water ponds, and flowering trees/plants for forage
  
• Continuously observing the land and learning from it, creating closed-loop systems to reduce waste
  
• Creative, slow and simple solutions