About Our Family
Hi, We're the Hundleys!
We believe that God calls each of us to care for the land He places in our stewardship, making it both productive and healthy. When tended with intention, the land can provide nourishment, support life, and reflect His provision. This belief guides our work and inspires us to help others grow food, restore soil, and care for their own corner of creation.
Our family’s journey has taken us across the country. While building our previous practice in Tennessee, we welcomed two children in 18 months and grew both our family and our business. Over time, we felt God’s clear call to return to Oregon—home to Matt’s family and the land currently cared for by his mother and stepfather. Coming back is allowing us to build something bigger than ourselves, create systems that can be managed as family ages, and honor God through our care for the land.
As a family-owned business, we value the lessons this work teaches: faith, patience, responsibility, and endurance. Our hope is that our gardens and homesteads not only nourish families, but also model thoughtful stewardship for the next generation.
We are grateful for the opportunity to serve others, helping families grow clean, nutritious food and care for their land in ways that honor God, benefit their households, and leave the earth better than we found it.
Matt Hundley, Chief Designer & Gardener
Matt Hundley is a permaculture designer and regenerative farmer with a unique background in homesteading and food production. At the age of 12, he began working alongside migrant workers in the berry fields of Oregon. Following in the footsteps of generations of foresters and farmers, he explored many aspects of agriculture and agroforestry. Before he turned 18, he'd worked on tree farms, horse stables, market-garden farms, campgrounds, hay farms, a community store, and as a commercial fisherman in Alaska.
Following an interest in health, he enlisted in the National Guard as a Healthcare Specialist upon graduation. After a three-year stint, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career in music. From there, he spent the next 5 years touring the small towns and honky-tonks on the backroads of America. It was in these travels that he saw a grim picture of rural America in its struggling small towns and dying agricultural economies. He set out on a quest for answers, and discovered the growing field of permaculture and Bill Mollison's Permaculture Design Course. He began intensive studies into all things related to regenerative agriculture and began working on organic farms in Tennessee. After purchasing a degraded property covered in thousands of pounds of trash, he spent 2 years restoring the land and started Hollowtop Farms on the site. In 2020, Matt began designing properties ranging from tiny RV lots to 300 acre farms to sustainably produce diverse foods while helping homesteaders design lives of self-sufficiency and resilience.
Gabrielle Hundley, Web Manager
Raised on the outskirts of a small town in the corn belt of Indiana, Gabby Hundley has long had a passion for healthy communities, physical fitness, and telling the stories of rural America. Her journey with solving her own health issues at a young age imbued her with a heart for helping others build healthier lives. After receiving a bachelors degree in journalism and political science from Indiana University, she started a local hometown newspaper, Saturday Shelby. In 2016, she moved to Nashville to work as a freelance writer, marketer, and content creator. In 2018, she founded Marketing By Gabby, a marketing agency serving entrepreneurs, small business owners, creatives, farmers and homesteaders with coaching, consultations, and campaign development. In 2019, she fell in love with a 5-acre former cow-pasture in the hills of Middle Tennessee and began her homesteading journey. As an avid runner, she dubbed the homestead Marathon Acres and began building a small house and learning to garden and process her own food. The site became the new home of Hollowtop Farms, which Gabby and Matt developed as an example in regenerative agriculture.
Before moving to Oregon, the Hundley family moved to Perry County, TN where they bought a home and 8 acres which they planted a permaculture food forest on that will continue to be tended in their absence.