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

Tainable’s mission is to transform agricultural lands into community-designed collaboration hubs that advance soil health, strengthen local food security, and promote responsible resource stewardship. Founded by environmentalist and farmer Ramsey McPhillips, Tainable operates at the historic 1862 McPhillips Farm, providing laboratory space and farmland for a diverse group of tenants, including Chapul Farms, Food Loop NW, Edible Landscapes of Yamhill County’s Bounty Park food forest, The Monarch Effect, Habitat Energy, Birdsong Botanicals, and Berry Creek Garden.

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

  • Lee McCollins

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; BERRY CREEK GARDEN

    Lee McCollins is the co-founder of Berry Creek Garden, a native plant nursery and community horticulture space. They focus on growing climate-smart Pacific Northwest plants and creating a place where people can learn, gather, and connect through nature. Lee brings a background in placemaking and community-based marketing to shaping Berry Creek as both a garden and a gathering place.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Shawn Freitas

    TENANT AT TAINABLE; HABITAT ENERGY

    Shawn is the founder of Habitat Energy, developing systems that convert local manures into clean energy and precision fertilizers to support farm efficiency and protect waterways. With 15+ years in clean energy, he has led major projects across biorefineries and water treatment, and previously worked at the U.S. Department of Energy. He holds a PhD from Oregon State University.

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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.