As of 2024, Malcolms Microfarms is once again operating in Fairfax, VA.

Malcolm’s Microfarms provides a wide variety of services to the NOVA area looking to establish a more sustainable approach to gardening, lawn care, and suburban food growing.

Have you ever wanted to grow a small vegetable / herb garden to supplement your grocery shopping with fresh, organic produce sourced from your own yard?

Want to use your food scraps and yard waste to produce nutrient rich compost?

Want to pepper your existing garden area with edible plants while maintaining an ascetically pleasing yard?

We offer all these services and more!

Malcolm’s Microfarms is committed to a sustainable approach to lawn care, landscaping, and eco-friendly garden installation.

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Who I am and why I love nurturing plants…

I’m Malcolm Galloway, a Northern Virginia native, I am the sole proprietor and operator of Malcolm’s Microfarming (formerly Project Nature). I graduated from Woodson High School and Virginia State University with a BS in Plant & Soil Science; with a practical concentration on permaculture/sustainable small scale farming.

While at university, I operated my own 1/4 acre urban market garden. Once I graduated, I worked as an Agriculture Specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE). My role with VCE was to create plots and work with niche, high value crops that local Virginia growers could profitably replicate within their farm business model. I interacted with the interested public as a VCE agent and presented my findings throughout the growing season at the VCE research farm – Randolph Farm. 

I have more than a decade of work experience with all types of urban/suburban agriculture and gardens, lawn care, landscaping jobs, urban/suburban permaculture. 

For the past six years, I’ve worked in sustainable agriculture in Australia and New Zealand.  

I have had jobs ranging from a working as a harvest and packing specialist at a small, family asparagus operation in Dunedin, NZ. 

To care-taking the breathtaking residence of Aquila on Hamilton Island, in the magical Whitsunday Islands.

To the remote reaches of Far North Queensland working as a caretaker at Tranquility on the Daintree, a 400 acre, unique eco-resort with a local, tropical, farm to table dining experience.

Services

Services include, but not limited to:

• garden consultation – ½ hour, 1 hour, and 2-hour consults available

• garden planning and preparation

• construction of raised beds

• design and installation of several models of composting bins

• multi bay compost system installation, leaf removal and recycling

• construction of sustainable leaf cages

• custom plant installs 

• custom trellis / support builds

• native plant gardens

• foraging lessons

• native edible species gardens

• creative porch and indoor food production systems 

• edible landscaping and fruit tree installs

• permaculture systems (hugelkultur beds, etc)

• follow up soil additions, nutrient amendments, etc. of raised beds 

• general lawn care and landscaping

• moderate tree pruning

• hedge trimming

• culinary herb container gardens

• return plant care / scheduled visits available

• other custom work by arrangement

. . . all with a sustainable, eco-friendly perspective . . .

Previous Clients

Tranquility on the Daintree

Aquila Hamilton Island

Palmerston Asparagus

Various Northern VA Homeowners

Virginia Cooperative Extension Program

Elwood Thompsons Grocery Store