Stacie Marshall

Stacie Marshall is a seventh-generation farmer in Dirt Town Valley and steward of Mama Mountain Farms, where she practices regenerative agriculture and works to strengthen food sovereignty in Southern Appalachia. Alongside her father, brother, husband, and three daughters, she raises a small flock of Katahdin sheep and 80 head of grass-fed cattle, offering locally raised meat shares to her community with regenerative practices

Passionate about connecting people through food, land, and conversation, Stacie hosts farm-to-table dinners and community gatherings focused on racial restoration and equity. She is also the co-founder of Hester’s Heritage Foundation which supports black farmers and equal justice initiatives. She serves as board president of the Davies Homeless Shelter, supporting the unsheltered community with compassion and advocacy through a farm food program.

Her land-based work reconciling family and regional land histories through reparative and restorative practices has been featured by The New York Times and BBC.

Whether tending livestock or crafting herbal remedies from the land, Stacie’s work is rooted in restoring soil, community, and connection.

Plenary Panel

Regenerating More than Soil: Multigenerational Producers Reckoning With Relational Repair in their Farms’ Histories

Multigenerational producers inherit valuable knowledge, land, and social capital within their communities. This inheritance of heritage is also often laden with complicated histories of the farm’s past not always talked about or engaged with, yet deeply interconnected to the goals of holistic management and regenerative agriculture. This session tackles this uncomfortable yet urgent complexity head on through talks by producers and engaged researchers who are working directly in their operations to reckon with their farms’ place in histories of settler colonial dispossession, enslavement, and inequitable land access. Stacie Marshall from Mountain Mama Farms in Georgia, Beth Robinette from the Lazy R Ranch in Washington, and anthropologist Sydney Giacalone from the University of Virginia will lead this session to ask: how does regenerative agriculture call producers to take on both ecological and social repair upon these storied lands?