TAINABLE is a non-profit laboratory campus located on a working certified organic farm located in McMinnville, Oregon.

Our mission is to accelerate the science of carbon soil sequestration through nitrogen balancing in an effort to solve climate change. Founded by environmentalist and farmer, Ramsey McPhillips, TAINABLE provides laboratory space and farmland to world leading soil scientist, Dr. Elaine Ingham of Soil Food Web INC., Pat Crowley, Founder of Chapul Farms, LLC, Edward Hill and Dr. Rachel Knox of Food Loop NW, and Edible Landscapes of Yamhill County’s Bounty Park food forest.

RAMSEY McPHILLIPS, FOUNDER

TAINABLE is Ramsey’s farthest-reaching, most profound community-based effort to date. That is why he has dedicated the use of his family’s 570-acre farm to demonstrate and advocate what he believes is the most efficient way to lock carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil.

WHY TAINABLE?

TAINABLE’S tenants receive free rent and demonstration farmland in exchange for sharing and selling their soil regeneration results to major financial agriculture and forest entities to quickly proliferate their climate-saving practices on a sustainable—and profitable—level.

FACILITY

TAINABLE’S laboratory is located on the historic McPhillips Farm, a 160-year-old 570-acre sheep and grass seed farm in the heart of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. It is comprised of old-growth forests, a patchwork of ponds, oak savannas, native pastureland, cultivated cropland, and over 7 miles of river.

SOIL HEROES

  • Charlene Doland

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; EDIBLE LANDSCAPES

    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. Edible Landscapes is bringing Bounty Park, a 13-acre commercial scale regeneratively grown food forest to the Tainable campus network.

  • Pat Crowley

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; CHAPUL FARMS

    Pat Crowley is founder and CEO of Chapul, LLC, building and scaling modular insect farms. His diverse career path has a singular focus of ensuring food and water availability for future generations. 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.

  • Dr. Elaine Ingham

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; SOIL FOOD NETWORK

    Dr. Elaine Ingham is recognized as one of the foremost soil biologists in the world. After discovering the soil food web approach (nature’s soil operating system) nearly 4 decades ago she has pioneered research in the field of soil microbial science. Dr. Ingham’s approach is an effective and viable means of rapidly regenerating agricultural soils, enabling farmers to operate without the use of chemical inputs, thus protecting the world’s waterways, insect and animal populations.

  • Eddie Hill

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; FOOD LOOP NORTHWEST

    Edward “Eddie” Hill is a member of Food Loop Northwest, a BIPOC/Woman, and Veteran-owned LLC (B-Corp Pending) Food Hub, that engages, equips, and elevates underrepresented food entrepreneurs and cold-chain stakeholders throughout our regional PNW food shed. 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.

  • Christian Wrigley

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; BIRDSONG BOTANICALS

    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.

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WHY DONATE?

Ramsey founded Tainable to create, with full throttle urgency, a regenerative farm demonstration facility using proven laboratory soil science from highly regarded scientists and innovators to stave off climate change in the next 10 years.

Tainable donates facilities to accomplished scientist-tenants,  Chapul Farms and the Soil Food Web, who have developed proven carbon-sequestration strategies that deserve greater exposure to speed climate change solutions. Tainable’s labs and acres of farmland available for field study will allow tenants to collaborate, focus and expedite work.