The project
Help us build 3 Littlest Big Farms.
Goodie Farm has been farming in Cherry Valley for more than a decade. We are raising funds for three small protected growing spaces to help protect crops, start plants, and keep food growing through heat, wind, cold snaps, and sudden weather swings.
Help us build the 3 farmsSupport goes securely through Goodie Farm's Square page.
The people behind Goodie Farm
Rooted in land, seed, and community.
At the heart of it is love for this land, for farming, and for the community that has grown around us. Small farms are facing real challenges, and rather than lose our energy to everything working against them, we want to put that energy into what we can do: build, adapt, share what we learn, and create a farm that can still be here for generations to come. We believe connection becomes action when a community comes together. Your support helps us build a long-term future for this farm and hopefully a path that can help other small farms keep going, too.
Why the farm work matters: keeping a small farm producing local food, caring for living soil, and strengthening a more resilient community food system.
Community needs farms and farmers.
The farm
Food, soil, and a place worth protecting.
Growing from seed
Where everything begins.
Just to name a few, our work has included growing from seed and participating in seed trials through the SCOPE Project alongside students at UC Davis and with other seed companies, while continuing to trial and expand what we grow here on the farm. We’re especially connected to growing more Korean varieties through Second Generation Seeds, whose work is deeply rooted in preservation and in honoring the crops, flavors, and food traditions of Korean communities.
For us, growing from seed is where everything begins. A seed carries so much more than the promise of a harvest—it carries history, culture, adaptation, and the possibility of what comes next. Starting our crops from seed allows us to learn which varieties truly thrive in our climate, preserve diversity, share new foods with our community, and become better stewards of the land.
After more than a decade of farming, we are still learning, trialing, saving, planting, and growing, and that continual relationship between seed, soil, farmer, and community is the plan for us.
Thank you, Jane + Hayden
Why 3?
Three growing spaces give the farm room to adapt.
Each Littlest Big Farm can serve a different part of the year or a different crop. Together, they give Goodie Farm more flexibility when conditions change.
Protect crops
Keep growing through heat waves, cold snaps, wind, and unpredictable weather.
Start plants
Grow healthy seedlings and specialty crops in a more stable environment.
Grow through extremes
Manage different conditions so the farm can keep food growing through more of the year.
Why not just a greenhouse?
Two different tools.
A simple greenhouse is useful for season extension and basic protection. A Littlest Big Farm is being developed to buffer temperature swings and actively manage a compact growing environment when outside conditions become difficult.
A simple greenhouse
- Season extension
- Basic protection from the elements
A Littlest Big Farm
- Earthen thermal mass
- Climate control
- Recirculating water systems
- Sensors and data
- Designed for small-scale resilient growing
Already tested: From The Land prototypes have successfully grown saffron, Lion's Mane mushrooms, and vegetable seedlings.
Help put 3 Littlest Big Farms to work at Goodie Farm.
Your support helps move this work from prototypes to three real growing spaces on a working farm in Cherry Valley.
Help us build the 3 farmsSupport goes securely through Goodie Farm's Square page.
More ways to support Goodie Farm
Join the harvest.
If you would rather support the farm through food, Goodie Farm's Fall seasonal CSA is open.
Fall seasonal CSA
Reserve a share
Get seasonal food directly from Goodie Farm and support the farm through the harvest.
Reserve a Fall CSA shareShare the harvest
Donate a CSA share
Want to help someone else receive a farm share? Goodie Farm can help coordinate a donated CSA share.