About Soil shepherd farm

Our farm is dedicated to restoring fertile soil for healthier food and planet. We pull from many methodologies. Our most important practices include: minimal tillage, mulching, 100% soil cover, topdressing minerals and organic fertilizers, composting, pasture rotation, fermentation, and microorganism cultivation. We love and nurture the Soil Food Web, and believe that this is the key to strengthening our planet so we can all live long healthy lives here for generations to come. 

Elizabeth Buckner was born on this very land in Lagrange County, Indiana. Some of her earliest childhood memories take place in the garden, where her great-grandfather would put her to work planting seeds, watering crops, and squishing potato bugs. In 2008, she moved to San Francisco for a taste of city life, then to Oregon in 2012, where she started farming and fell in love with the land all over again. In 2017, she started Soil Shepherd Farm with her partner Dustin, in Hillsboro, Oregon where they raised vegetables, eggs, chicken, and pork. In September 2018, they relocated back to the farm where it all began, to nurse the land back to health and grow food for their community.

Dustin Marsau loves to fix things. As a child he took apart all kinds of devices to see how they work. This curiosity has transferred to all aspects of life. The most fascinating is the inner synergistic relationships in ecosystems. During college, biology, ecology, and environmental studies were the most fascinating subjects to Dustin. With the discovery of Permaculture, Restoration agriculture and Keyline Design he decided he must dedicate his life to performing carbon sequestering regenerative agriculture. He has spent much of his time studying and practicing methods of regenerative farming. He knows this is what the earth and its inhabitants need, truly sustainable nutritionally DENSE food grown in healthy soil.