Marsha Roberts owns and operates the family farm, where she grew up, in Rushcreek Township. Marsha, who has traced her family roots in Rushcreek
Township to 1818, has worked the family farm from her youth to present day. She is honoring her dad’s final wishes to have the farm remain intact as a functioning, productive, agriculture enterprise. When Marsha became the sole owner of the family farm, she began the process of enrolling her farm into the Clean Ohio Local Agricultural Easement Purchase Program working with local sponsor Logan County Land Trust. She successfully completed that process in 2018.
Marsha’s focus is erosion control, woodlot enhancement and maintaining functional drain ways and outlets. Marsha installed 6.8 acres of new waterways and upgrading existing waterways. Within her 334-acre farm she has approximately 200 acres of cropland, 20 acres of hay land, 92 acres of woods and the remaining acreage in other farm uses. Marsha’s farm management mission statement is “take care of the farm and the farm will take care of you.”
When Marsha isn’t busy on the farm cleaning out fence rows, mowing, running the excavator or working on brush management, she casts a keen eye for Indian artifacts. There are still wagon wheel ruts from early settlers who traveled along the section of Greenville Treaty Line that traverses her farm.