Maurice Small’s consulting services revolutionize gardens, farms, and food systems, blending sustainability with profitability to transform land, soil, and community for thriving success.
Maurice Small's transformative consulting services are expertly designed to revolutionize garden and farm development for individuals, businesses, and communities. With a steadfast commitment to sustainable practices and profitability, Maurice specializes in crafting tailored solutions that not only improve access to fresh, organic food but also deepen your connection with the land.
Whether you're venturing into Farm or Garden Development, seeking guidance for a Farm to Fork initiative, honing your Soil Creation skills, or delving into Land Conservation Use, Maurice offers expert support aligned with your specific goals and values.
With over three decades of experience, Maurice is a trusted advisor renowned for creating rich, healthy soil that maximizes plant health and vitality, leading to environmental benefits and increased profitability. Collaborate with Maurice to access proven strategies, innovative solutions, and a vision for restoring the soil and honoring the earth's vitality, paving the way for significant growth and success in your agricultural endeavors.
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 You or Your Organization, Business, Family or Place of Worship?
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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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