Founder · Curator · Lifelong Appalachian
Amy’s
Appalachia.
The place behind Terra Gra is not an abstraction. It is Amy’s home, her source of wonder, and the standard by which every object is chosen.
Roots & experience
A life of building.
Amy Defibaugh grew up in southeastern Ohio and built her life and career in West Virginia. Her connection to Appalachia runs through her work, her family, and her commitment to the people who call this region home.
A college graduate with a bachelor’s degree, Amy has established a career in business development, served as a business development director, and founded multiple businesses. Her experience includes building and operating a café, a full commercial kitchen, a market, and a coffee shop. She understands the work of turning an idea into something real—and the daily responsibility of keeping it going.
Community & commitment
Showing up for her community.
Her commitment extends well beyond business. Amy works extensively with nonprofit organizations and has served on nonprofit boards, contributing her experience to efforts that strengthen the community. She helps develop opportunities for women, particularly young women across West Virginia and southeastern Ohio. An advocate for political justice and the rights of underserved people, she has organized, managed, and supported community events addressing needs ranging from school supplies to healthcare rights and access.
Across these different roles, Amy brings a personal sense of responsibility to the work. She invests her time, attention, and heart in a project, including the work that happens quietly behind the scenes. Recognition is never a condition of her commitment. What matters is that the work is done with care and that the people depending on it are supported.
The mother of three thriving children, Amy has built a life that holds family, entrepreneurship, and community service together. Her story is one of continued growth, taking on new challenges while remaining closely connected to the place and people that shaped her.
The eye behind Terra Gra
She saw more than a store.
Amy Defibaugh created Terra Gra because the Appalachia she loves deserves to be encountered with curiosity, respect, and a little sense of magic.
She knows the region cannot be reduced to a postcard, a stereotype, or a single rustic style. Appalachia is old knowledge and new ideas. It is resourcefulness, humor, wild places, hard work, beauty, folklore, and makers who understand the value of doing something well.
Terra Gra is Amy’s way of gathering those threads. She seeks out goods that carry a meaningful connection to the region and presents them with the care their makers—and their stories—deserve.
01
Look beyond the obvious.
The collection leaves room for heritage and invention, practicality and peculiarity, familiar traditions and surprising new work.
02
Pay fairly from the start.
Terra Gra purchases its inventory. Makers receive their money upfront instead of waiting for a customer to complete a consignment sale.
03
Keep the place attached.
Who made something, where it came from, and why it matters should remain part of the object—not disappear after it reaches a shelf.
The vision
Bring the wonder of Appalachia to a wider world without stripping away the people, places, and stories that made it.
What Amy is building
A store with a point of view—and a conscience.
Every shelf is an argument for attention: notice the hands, the material, the humor, the history, and the imagination alive throughout Appalachia.
- 01Rooted in place
- 02Chosen with care
- 03Fair to makers
- 04Open to wonder
Continue the story
See what Amy finds.
Explore the goods that turn this vision into something you can hold, use, give, and remember.