People
Honor family, preserve history, transfer knowledge, build community, and develop future generations.
On 108 acres of ancestral farmland in Jackson, Tennessee, ULM Farms is bringing generations of agricultural heritage together with a forward-looking vision for regenerative farming, education, research, and community opportunity.
In the 1950s, our family purchased this land and worked it with their own hands. They grew cotton, corn, potatoes, okra, and sugarcane. They raised livestock, preserved food, made molasses, wove baskets, and built rocking chairs. A school once operated on the property. The farm fed a large family and taught generations the value of work, skill, and caring for one another.
Today the land is still ours to steward. ULM Farms exists to honor the people who built it, restore the soil and water they depended on, and turn what they started into a living resource for family, community, and the next generation.
Everything ULM Farms does grows from these three commitments.
Honor family, preserve history, transfer knowledge, build community, and develop future generations.
Restore soil, grow nutritious food, protect ecological systems, and demonstrate regenerative agriculture.
Create lasting educational, economic, environmental, and community benefits through responsible stewardship.
This 2-minute concept film presents our long-term vision for ULM Farms: a regenerative, educational farm where soil, water, crops, livestock, and people work as one connected system.
Concept presentation. Depicts proposed future development, not existing facilities or approved engineering designs.
The twelve integrated systems under consideration group into six connected themes. ULM Farms is designing toward a connected model in which water is conserved, crops are grown, suitable byproducts are recovered as nutrients, soil is rebuilt, and the cycle begins again.
Composting, red wiggler worm composting (Eisenia fetida), biochar, and biological soil practices to rebuild fertility. Status: Proposed.
Shown as a proposed systems concept. ULM Farms does not yet operate a closed-loop system.
On October 15, 2026, Virginia Tech faculty and students met with multiple generations of the Mosley family to learn the land's history and begin collaborative planning. On October 16, the team completed an on-site visit to the property. Two senior capstone teams, one focused on constructed-wetland wastewater treatment and one on nutrient management, along with landscape architecture students, are exploring design concepts with the family.
See the collaborationFamily heritage, agricultural knowledge, and stories gathered across generations.
Property assessment, erosion and kudzu challenges, pond and drainage evaluation, collaborative planning with university partners.
Regenerative production systems, education facilities, research programs, and community opportunity.
Our ancestors poured into their children and grandchildren. ULM Farms intends to continue that tradition on a larger scale: a place where young people, families, schools, and communities can learn where food comes from, how soil lives, and how land can be cared for across generations. Educational programming is a future opportunity under development.
Our education vision
Researchers, educators, Extension professionals, engineers, conservation organizations, and community partners: we invite you to learn with us, plan with us, and help shape a regenerative agricultural legacy.