Meet:
The Women of the Land

Jen Antill

Co-Executive Director
Writer, Documentarian, Farmer

When we bought our farm in 2022, I had no idea that we would become dairy farmers, that I would fall in love with cows, and that I would become deeply invested in my relationship with the natural world. I never thought I would be a farmer although farming was a whisper throughout my entire life, beginning at twenty-three when I decided to move to an organic farm on Maui and forego getting any kind of corporate job.

Since 2022, farming has forged me, challenged me, shaped me, and changed me. Creating Women of the Land is our prayer and hope to continue teaching people about how to live sustainably, how to let the earth heal us, and how to cultivate skills that are imperative to our survival in an increasingly technological world.

My background is in theatre and music, the healing arts (mainly astrology and psychotherapy), social work, and writing. While my wife and I run this non-profit together, I am the foundation under the artist residency program and share my own writing and conversations with other women who make art about the natural world on my Substack | The Outskirts.

A woman standing in front of a red brick wall, wearing a black t-shirt, a brown and black plaid shirt, and a light blue baseball cap backward. 
Co-Executive Director
Farmer, Dairy Master, Metabolic Health Expert

Heathar Shepard

I was raised on a farm in the backwoods of upstate New York. My childhood consisted of cutting wood from our forest to heat our home in the winter, tending the gardens, making sure the beef cattle didn’t escape, feeding the pigs leftover milk, and helping my mom in the kitchen (my mom is a very small Sicilian kitchen wizard). I was also a hardcore athlete and played Division One basketball.

I thought I was going to be an athlete all my life but, in my early 20’s I experienced a life changing car accident that resulted in a TBI (traumatic brain injury). As a result, my body could no longer perform in the physical, rigorous way that it once did. This led me down the alternative healing path to find ways that my body could feel better. I devoured alternative health education, got a BA in nutrition, studied ancestral foods, attended acupuncture school, and received a PhD in homeopathy.

Today, I spend much of my time in the pasture with our cows, in the kitchen making ancestral foods grown on our land, and working with clients to restore their hormonal and metabolic health. You can start diving into my work through my Susbstack | Eat, Heal, Farm.