Meet The women who created
Eat, Heal, Farm

Heathar Shepard: Metabolic Health Expert

Heathar Shepard

Metabolic Health Practitioner

Heathar’s work centers on helping women restore thyroid health, rebuild energy, and support hormonal balance through real nourishment. After witnessing the loss of her grandmother to cancer while she was in high school, Heathar became deeply interested in understanding what truly creates health in the human body. That experience led her into more than two decades of studying nutrition and holistic systems of healing that view the body as an interconnected whole.

Heathar holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and a Master’s degree in Classical Homeopathy, along with advanced training in Qi Gong and Classical Chinese Medicine. Through these studies, she developed a deep understanding of how metabolism, the nervous system, hormones, and nutrition all influence thyroid function and women’s overall vitality. Her work focuses especially on women experiencing fatigue, burnout, hormonal disruption, and symptoms of low thyroid function—helping them restore the foundational conditions the body needs to produce energy and regain balance.

Outside of her clinical work, Heathar lives with her wife on their small farm in northern New Mexico, where they raise dairy cows and steward the land. Farming has deepened her belief that health begins with nourishment—real food grown from healthy soil, supportive rhythms of living, and a deeper connection to the natural world. These principles form the foundation of her work supporting women in reclaiming their energy, metabolism, and long-term health.

Jen Antill, co-founder of Eat Heal Farm in northern New Mexico

Jen Antill

Writer, Photographer, Website Designer, Business Manager, Healing Arts Practitioner, + Retreat Curator

Jen creates and manages the Eat Heal Farm website and helps bring the vision of the business to life through its day-to-day operations. She loves welcoming guests onto the land, helping them feel at home during their retreats, and thoughtfully curating experiences that support rest, nourishment, and connection.

Jen holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has been a practicing astrologer since 2010 and a massage therapist since 2013. During private retreats, guests have the opportunity to book personalized sessions with Jen, including astrology and bodywork, as part of their experience on the farm.

Jen is also a writer and documentarian exploring the relationships between place, land, the natural world, and rural life. Her essays can be found on Substack, where she writes about caring for the earth, returning to ancestral land-based practices, and cultivating a more rooted, wild way of living on the outskirts.

explore Ojo Conejo

Aside from running Eat, Heal, Farm together, Heathar and Jen run a 5-acre grass-fed, organic dairy farm in rural New Mexico.

Two calves peeking through a wooden fence with blue sky and trees in the background.
Two smiling boys and a woman standing on a paved rural road surrounded by trees and dry grass, with the sun setting in the background.
A brown cow peeking from behind a tree in a rural outdoor setting during sunset.
Raised wooden garden beds filled with colorful flowers, including pink hollyhocks and orange marigolds, in an outdoor garden setting with trees in the background.
A person standing next to a large brown cow with horns in a rustic farm setting, with a wooden fence and barn in the background.
A young calf lying on a pile of hay in a farmyard, with wooden fences and trees in the background.
Two women hugging and smiling, standing next to a large bunch of red dried chili peppers hanging on a wall. One woman is wearing glasses and a bandana around her neck, the other is wearing a cap and a plaid shirt.
Green tomato plants supported by a trellis with some tomatoes ripening from green to red.
Multiple chickens in a farmyard with dirt ground, including a speckled rooster with a red comb and wattles, and several hens with red and brown feathers, some with black markings.