SMALL PLACES is a limited liability company formed in March of 2014 with a focus on making agriculture in an urban setting sustainable, supportive of its community, and profitable. We are working to develop a business model that is diverse and robust to create a productive and empowering farm within Houston’s city limits. We have begun with a 1.25 acre lot on Houston’s East Side just 4 miles from Houston’s City Hall where we will be growing organic herbs, fruits and vegetables to be sold to individuals and restaurants directly from our farm and area farmers markets. While this produce will be convenient, healthy and accessible to individuals in the area, we are working to make it affordable to the immediate East End community as a way to begin to challenge the food system of the neighborhood, to build relationships, and to keep money here in our immediate, local economy.