Ramsey has spent most of his life building movements that help communities live in better relationship with the land. He’s the founder of ZeroWaste McMinnville, Edible Landscapes of Yamhill County, Bounty Park, The Monarch Effect, and a long list of environmental projects that have reshaped how our region grows food, manages waste, restores habitat, and shows up for the planet we depend on. His work has always been hands-on and community-based. Not theory. Not trend. Real-world change led by people who care.

TAINABLE is the next step. It is the most ambitious and wide-reaching effort he has ever taken on. Ramsey has dedicated his family’s 570-acre farm to this project so the land itself can demonstrate a better way forward. Here, regenerative agriculture is not an idea. It is daily work. The goal is simple and serious: pull carbon out of the atmosphere and return it to the soil, strengthening ecosystems in the process.

This land is a learning place. Farmers, scientists, students, artists, neighbors, and kids are welcome to see it, touch it, learn from it, and help shape it. Ramsey believes climate solutions only matter if they are shared and practiced together. TAINABLE reflects that belief. A community space. A working landscape. A long-term effort to repair what has been damaged and to grow what can still thrive.

Ramsey’s work has always pointed in this direction. TAINABLE is where it all comes together.

Lee McCollins is the co-founder of Berry Creek Garden, a native plant grower and retail nursery centered in community, design, and ecological care. Berry Creek grows and sells a wide range of Pacific Northwest native plants, including woody shrubs, perennials, annuals, and trees, with a focus on supporting healthy regional ecosystems.

Berry Creek is more than a nursery. It functions as a horticultural hub where people can learn, teach, shop, gather, and build relationships rooted in a shared love of plants. The space is designed for community-driven folks who want to deepen their connection to the land and to each other.

Before launching Berry Creek, Lee spent over fifteen years in brand strategy and community-based marketing, most recently as Director of Marketing and Communications at Visit McMinnville. His work has always centered on placemaking: understanding what makes a place feel alive, and helping people see themselves as part of it.

Christian Wrigley is an herb gardener, clinical herbalist, children’s outdoor educator and founder of BirdSong Botanicals. His mission is to educate, empower and spread awareness that human health and vitality is intimately connected to the health and biodiversity of our planets soils and ecosystems.

Pat Crowley has an M.S. in Watershed Hydrology from the University of Arizona and a B.A. in Psychology from Claremont McKenna College and is founder and CEO of Chapul Farms, building and scaling modular insect farms.

With previous positions as a climate modeler, hydrologist, and agronomist for state and federal agencies, Pat’s diverse career path has a singular focus of ensuring food and water availability for future generations.

He founded Chapul Farms (the first edible cricket protein company in the US) in 2012 as a way to create a pull-through demand for the growth of the insect agriculture industry. This path led him to an appearance on ABC’s Shark Tank, securing an investment from Mark Cuban, and the creation of a brand that reached national distribution as the first of its kind. Chapul Farms’ is guided by the mission of increasing biodiversity within agriculture, leveraging insects as a gateway to beneficial microbial ecosystems that are keystone additions to most terrestrial ecosystems on the planet. The microbes in insect manure are essential to healthy soils, especially when applied to soil with no-till and other regenerative practices.

Chapul Farms’ mission is to develop commercial insect facilities that advance key environmental impact goals toward sustainable (net-zero) and regenerative (net positive) initiatives, including the health of homo sapiens communities. Chapul develops economic incentives for human actions to expedite the development of insect habitats within agri-systems.

Charlene Doland is President of Edible Landscapes of Yamhill County, a community-focused organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities, particularly those underserved, to transform their spaces into flourishing organic edible gardens. Driven by a profound commitment to environmental stewardship, Charlene is deeply involved in learning about regenerative agriculture practices, sharing her insights with others, and putting these methods into action. These practices effectively harness the synergy of soil, vegetation, and natural water systems to yield abundant, nutrient-rich harvests. Beyond enhancing food equity and sovereignty, these methods also play a crucial role in improving carbon sequestration and revitalizing ecosystems.

Edward “Eddie” Hill is a member of FOOD LOOP NORTHWEST. Hill brings a humorous directness and cheeky sincerity to his work advancing environmental, economic, and social justice (parity) through food systems and wealth building in vulnerable communities. Hill is an innovator and driver of work at the intersections of food justice, food systems improvement, agriculture, and BIPOC food economies for Black and Brown People in the Pacific Northwest.

Hill’s background includes community pre-development and stakeholder engagement, site and neighborhood planning, long-range comprehensive planning, green infrastructure design, regenerative ecological systems, as well as project management services, program development, and academic instruction. Hill has a B.A. in Liberal Arts: Urban Studies from The Evergreen State College, Tacoma (2005), and completed his Masters of Urban Design & Planning coursework in 2013 at the University of Washington.

Shawn is the founder of Habitat Energy, where he’s building systems that convert local farm manure into clean energy and precision liquid fertilizers. His goal is straightforward: help farms operate more efficiently while protecting soil and water. He’s spent more than fifteen years in clean energy and alternative fuels, leading major projects across oilfields, biorefineries, and water treatment facilities. Before launching Habitat Energy, he co-founded CleanBay Renewables and served as a Senior Project Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he oversaw large-scale investments in industrial energy efficiency. Shawn holds a PhD in Wood Science from Oregon State University and two master’s degrees in project management and environmental engineering from the University of Alaska.