Henle, Mathias, and Woodin proved in [19] that, provided that ω → (ω) ω holds in a model M of ZF, then forcing with ([ω] ω , ⊆ * ) over M adds no new sets of ordinals, thus earning the name a "barren" extension. Moreover, under an additional assumption, they proved that this generic extension preserves all strong partition cardinals. This forcing thus produces a model M [U ], where U is a Ramsey ultrafilter, with many properties of the original model M . This begged the question of how important the Ramseyness of U is for these results. In this paper, we show that several classes of σ-closed forcings which generate non-Ramsey ultrafilters have the same properties. Such ultrafilters include Milliken-Taylor ultrafilters, a class of rapid p-points of Laflamme, k-arrow p-points of Baumgartner and Taylor, and extensions to a class of ultrafilters constructed by Dobrinen, Mijares and Trujillo. Furthermore, the class of Boolean algebras P(ω α )/Fin ⊗α , 2 ≤ α < ω 1 , forcing non-p-points also produce barren extensions.