The No-Till, Organic Market Gardens: Restoring Soil Health and Rebuilding Local Food Systems has 20 participants who are historically underserved Farmers in Louisiana. Each person must meet at least one of the following: beginning Farmer
(< 10 years), veteran, socially disadvantaged, and/or limited resources.
Each farmer must commit to a 3-year program and have access to 1/4 of an acre. The No-Till OMG program includes:
Soil Testing & Analysis • Training • Gardening Toolkit • Financial Incentives
Anthony Hoff
Heart & Harvest Homestead | Caddo Parish, Louisianas
Veteran farmer Anthony Hoff is building a resilient family farm rooted in soil health, biodiversity, and continuous learning. Through deep mulch, cover crops, perennial hedgerows, and an orchard of more than 200 heirloom fruit trees, Anthony turns farming challenges into opportunities for innovation and long-term stewardship.
Anthony Pollard
Pollard Farms | Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Anthony Pollard is transforming challenging clay and rocky soil into a productive regenerative farm built on stewardship, service, and generosity. By combining heavy mulch, recycled organic materials, and manure from his livestock, Anthony improves soil health while growing abundant vegetables to share with family, neighbors, and the wider community.
- Read Anthony’s Farmer Profile
Watch Anthony’s Story
Feeding Families and Food Banks
Ayn Duncan
Laus Deo Farm | Red River Parish, Louisiana
Ayn Duncan manages Laus Deo Farm as a living ecosystem where soil, plants, livestock, pollinators, and wildlife work together. Through no-till production, composting, mulching, beekeeping, orchard development, and careful observation, Ayn demonstrates how working with nature can build healthier soil and a diverse, resilient farm.
Camila Correa and Tommy Anderson
Wilamena’s Backyard | Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Camila Correa and Tommy Anderson transformed a backyard gardening dream into an urban farm centered on healthy soil, nutritious food, and community connection. Using compost, mulch, cover crops, permanent beds, and other regenerative practices, they improved severely compacted soil and drainage while gaining the confidence to grow their farm enterprise.
- Read Camila and Tommy’s Farmer Profile
Watch Camila and Tommy’s Story
Working With Nature at Wilamena’s Backyard
Campti Community Development Center
Judy Daniels, Darion Daniels, and Jessica Daniels | Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Judy Daniels and her family are using the Campti Community Development Center garden to connect food production with youth education, nutrition, and community health. Their quarter-acre no-till market garden gives children, families, seniors, and volunteers a place to grow food, develop practical skills, and continue Campti’s gardening traditions.
Cenerica Smith
Deeply Rooted Farm and Louisiana Urban Gardening Initiative | Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Cenerica Smith uses agriculture to expand food access, strengthen neighborhoods, and create opportunities across Shreveport. Through Deeply Rooted Farm and the Louisiana Urban Gardening Initiative, she brings no-till growing, composting, vermicomposting, biochar, and soil-health education into community gardens where residents can grow fresh food and local leadership.
- Read Cenerica Smith LUGI Community Impact Study
Watch Cenerica’s Community Story
Building Community Gardens in Food Deserts
David Beeter
Super Chicken Farm | Caddo Parish, Louisiana
David Beeter approaches Super Chicken Farm as a living laboratory for practical, lasting solutions. Through no-till growing, diverse specialty crops, pollinator habitat, soil restoration, renewable energy, and efficient farm infrastructure, David uses observation and experimentation to build a resilient urban farm that works with natural systems.
- Read David’s Farmer Profile
Watch David’s Story
Two Farms, One Vision
Dawn and James Maples
Make A Way Farm | Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Dawn and James Maples created Make A Way Farm to provide healthy food for their family and community while strengthening local food security. Through cover crops, compost, deep mulch, biochar, reduced tillage, and integrated livestock, they are restoring difficult soil and building a diverse regenerative farm grounded in faith and perseverance.
- Read Dawn and James’s Farmer Profile
Watch Dawn and James’s Story
Regenerative Grazing and the Return of Native Grasslands
Doris Sims and Jessie Mae Mayfield
Mama Class’ Pantry | Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Doris Sims and Jessie Mae Mayfield grow with a shared purpose: caring for people through fresh food and community service. At Mama Class’ Pantry, they use compost, mulch, continuous soil cover, and no-till methods to improve soil health, strengthen garden productivity, and preserve a legacy of generosity across generations.
- Read Doris and Jessie Mae’s Farmer Profile
Watch Doris and Jessie Mae’s Story
Growing Food and Tradition in the City
Gloria LeFall and Maxine Rideau
Rabboni Kingdom Church International | Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Sisters Gloria LeFall and Maxine Rideau transformed a former parking area into a productive church garden rooted in faith, fellowship, and service. Using mulch, compost, tarps, continuous soil cover, and improved irrigation, they grow fresh food while creating opportunities for education, food preservation, and community care.
- Read Gloria and Maxine’s Community Impact Study
Watch Gloria and Maxine’s Community Story
Growing Food and Community at Rabboni Kingdom Church
Iriel Edwards and Caleb McKenzie
Dancing Radicle Farm | Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Iriel Edwards and Caleb McKenzie are building Dancing Radicle Farm around ecological stewardship, local food production, and meaningful community connection. By adapting permanent beds, heavy mulch, cover crops, and organic matter to their site’s drainage challenges, they are turning compacted land into a productive no-till market garden.
•Read Iriel and Caleb’s Farmer Profile
Watch Iriel and Caleb’s Story
Growing Community at Dancing Radical Farm
James Price and Mason Price
3P Farm | Franklin Parish, Louisiana
James Price is restoring his family’s century-old farmland while creating a hands-on agricultural legacy with his son, Mason. Together at 3P Farm, they use mulch, organic matter, cover crops, and reduced tillage to transform former hay ground into a productive market garden rooted in soil health, family, and stewardship.
- Read James and Mason’s Farmer Profile Watch James and Mason’s Story
A Century Farm’s Next Generation
Konda Mason
Jubilee Justice | Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Konda Mason leads Jubilee Justice in using regenerative agriculture to advance soil stewardship, food sovereignty, entrepreneurship, and rural prosperity. The organization achieved USDA Organic certification and demonstrated the power of no-till production through trials in which heavily mulched plots produced higher yields with less irrigation, disease pressure, and labor.
- Read Konda’s Community Impact Study
Watch Konda’s Community Story
Soil First, Always Soil First
Lincoln Preparatory School
Joshua Bourgeois, Dexter Sapp, and Coach Chauncey Davison | Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
Lincoln Preparatory School transformed compacted construction ground into a quarter-acre no-till garden, outdoor classroom, farmstand, and community gathering place. Led by Joshua Bourgeois, Dexter Sapp, Coach Chauncey Davison, and their students, the garden combines science education with compost, biochar, mulch, cover crops, and hands-on environmental stewardship.
- Read the Lincoln Prep Community Impact Study
Watch the Lincoln Prep Community Story
Turning a Construction Site into a Classroom
Maidi McCray
KCS Community Center Garden | DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Maidi McCray uses gardening to bring volunteers, children, foster grandparents, and neighbors together around healthy food and shared learning. At the KCS Community Center Garden, she promotes no-till methods, compost, mulch, pollinator habitat, and soil health while helping people build skills and stronger community connections.
- Read Maidi’s Farmer Profile
Watch Maidi’s Story
Growing Community Through Service
Marianna Langston and Ivan Langston
Whippoorwill Farms | Union Parish, Louisiana
Marianna Langston and her son, Ivan, are restoring a family homestead that stood unattended for nearly thirty years. Working one section at a time, they use deep mulch, compost, livestock manure, cover crops, and reduced tillage to rebuild depleted soil and create a diversified farm for future generations.
- Read Marianna and Ivan’s Farmer Profile
Watch Marianna and Ivan’s Story
Rebuilding Soil One Quarter Acre at a Time
Samantha and Steven Starkey
Starkey Farmstead | St. Helena Parish, Louisiana
Samantha and Steven Starkey are building an interconnected farm where animals, plants, microbes, and people support one another. At Starkey Farmstead, compost, worm castings, biochar, livestock manure, cover crops, and mulch create a closed-loop system that improves soil health, reduces waste, and supports education and agritourism.
- Read Samantha and Steven’s Farmer Profile
Watch Samantha and Steven’s Story
Building Closed-Loop Systems on Two Acres
Sierra Torres and Becks Hilliard
Cicada Calling Farm & Market | Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
First-generation farmers Sierra Torres and Becks Hilliard built Cicada Calling Farm & Market without inherited land or equipment. Through intensive cover cropping, compost, mulch, no-till production, high tunnels, and specialty crops, they transformed depleted pasture into a thriving vegetable and cut-flower farm rooted in resilience and community.
- Read Sierra and Becks’s Farmer Profile
Watch Sierra and Becks’s Story
Flowers, Food, and Farm Profitability
Tanji Jefferson
Vunny T’s Farm | Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Tanji Jefferson transformed her approach to urban farming after discovering that no-till methods could reduce labor while improving results. At Vunny T’s Farm, she uses tarps, mulch, compost, and biological soil-building practices to grow vegetables, herbs, watermelons, roselle, and sugar cane while encouraging others to grow food.
- Read Tanji’s Farmer Profile
Watch Tanji’s Story
Discovering the Magic of No-Till Farming
Waylon Breaux
DeLaTerre Permaculture Farm | Jackson Parish, Louisiana
Waylon Breaux manages DeLaTerre Permaculture Farm as a working demonstration of regenerative agriculture at a human scale. By integrating no-till vegetables, rotational grazing, composting, biochar, agroforestry, and livestock, Waylon builds soil health while creating a place where farmers can learn through workshops, field days, and shared experience.
- Read Waylon’s Farmer Profile
Watch Waylon’s Story
Building Health From the Soil Up
Beyond the Original Twenty
Apprenticeships and Outreach Success Stories | Louisiana and Northwest Florida
The reach of the No-Till Organic Market Garden project extended far beyond its original participants. Through apprenticeships, farm-based training, outreach, and mentorship, emerging farmers and families gained practical experience in soil health, no-till production, farm infrastructure, local food systems, and the connection between healthy land and healthy communities.
