FROM THE LAND

LITTLEST BIG FARMS

A farm the size of a backyard shed.

Built to grow food year-round, where people are.

Raising $150,000 to secure High Street as our home base and working demo site, and develop prefabrication so we can build, ship, and install more Littlest Big Farms.

What if you could grow food anywhere? A working Littlest Big Farm in Southern California ▶ Watch our 4-minute story

See the working farm, why we went tiny, and why the next step is getting Littlest Big Farms built for more places.

WHAT THIS CROWDFUNDING IS FOR

  • Secure High Street as our long-term home base.
  • Build and test the first prefabricated wall systems.
  • Fund materials, engineering, and safety validation needed to move prefab forward.

More local food. Stronger food security. More local, good-paying jobs.

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WHAT THE FIRST $150,000 FUNDS

Move from building farms on site to prefabricating, shipping, and installing them.

01

Secure High Street as our long-term home base

Make High Street our stable base for prefabrication, a working Littlest Big Farm demo for buyers and investors, a place to develop and test new From The Land innovations, and a place for local workshops, demonstrations, and community learning.

02

Build + test the first prefabricated farms

Learn what can be built ahead of time, how it travels, and how to make installation faster and more consistent.

03

Professionally manufacture key systems

Move selected components from hand-built versions toward professional manufacturing while continuing to improve them.

04

Keep From The Land building + growing

Support the people, materials, operations, and working capital needed to keep building, serving partners, and moving forward.

We can still build the next farms in place if needed. This funding helps us add prefabrication, shipping, and installation capability. See the detailed plan →

WHY MAKE A FARM THIS SMALL?

Because food production should fit in more places.

A shed-sized farm can put growing capacity close to homes, schools, small farms, nonprofits, restaurants, and community sites instead of requiring one enormous facility.

Inside a working Littlest Big Farm with plants, hydroponic growing pipes, and mushroom fruiting blocks
Inside a working Littlest Big Farm.
01

Grow where the people eating the food are.

A 10 × 12 ft footprint can fit where a conventional farm or large indoor facility cannot.

02

Make each farm resilient.

Earthen thermal mass, protected growing, sensors, automation, and crop-specific systems are designed for changing weather and demanding conditions.

03

Spread the risk.

Many small farms in many places can create a more distributed system than concentrating all growing capacity in one huge facility.

WE DID THE BUILDING BEFORE THE ASK.

Seven years of building, growing, failures, fixes, and lessons.

We are not raising money for the first sketch. We have already built three generations, grown in the systems, trained growers, and learned what has to become more consistent next.

7 yearsbuilding and testing
3Littlest Big Farm generations
40+crop species grown in our systems
50+farmers + farmworkers trained

WHY WE THINK THIS CAN MATTER

Operating data and modeling point to much lower resource use.

These combine measured operating data, engineering models, and benchmark-based estimates. They are not performance guarantees, and we are continuing to validate them.

50–90%less landEngineering model, depending on crop and method
Up to ~90%less waterHydroponic benchmark versus field growing
~74–81%less electricity / lbMeasured data + modeled comparison versus commercial vertical farming

See real grow photos from over the years →

Earlier work has received support through programs including USDA SBIR Phase I and UCR OASIS. See the evidence, assumptions, and caveats →

CAN'T CONTRIBUTE TODAY? YOU CAN STILL HELP.

Follow the build and watch what happens next.

We want this campaign to create more than a transaction. Follow the next Littlest Big Farms from fabrication through testing, deployment, growing, failures, fixes, and lessons.

Build milestonesTest resultsNew cropsFailures + fixes
One introduction can matter too.

Know a grower, school, community organization, scientist, funder, or just one curious person who should see this?

Gina Oliver and Richard Hutchison standing beside a Littlest Big Farm they built

WHY US?

A scientist, an engineer, and seven years of making the idea real.

We are Dr. Gina Oliver and Richard Hutchison. Gina is a scientist and educator. Rich is a materials engineer and builder. We have built successive generations, grown crops, trained farmers, hauled materials, wired controls, fixed failures, and rebuilt what broke.

We want your help building the future of farming and growing a network of Littlest Big Farms in more places.

We did not spend seven years trying to make a bigger farm. We spent seven years learning how small a farm could be and still matter.
Back the Build Read the full story + evidence →

A LITTLE FARM. A FUTURE WE CAN GROW TOGETHER.

Help us get the next Littlest Big Farms into the world.

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OUR FUNDRAISING ROADMAP

What each funding level could unlock

The first goal is $150,000. Higher levels let us secure High Street more fully, extend runway, build more farms, and move prefabrication forward faster.

$150K

Next 6 months + property financing

Support roughly the next six months of operations, begin the prefabrication work, and strengthen our ability to finance the purchase of High Street.

$250K

Stronger High Street position + 12 months

Put substantially more toward securing High Street and give From The Land roughly twelve months of operating runway to keep building and growing.

$500K

Buy High Street outright + 12 months

Target an outright purchase of High Street while also supporting roughly twelve months of lean operations.

$700K

High Street + 2 farms + prefabrication

Buy High Street, support roughly twelve months of operations, fund two Littlest Big Farms, and help fund development and testing of the prefabrication process.

These are planning targets, not fixed allocations or guarantees. Exact uses can shift with property financing, closing costs, timing, engineering needs, and actual build costs.

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