Henle, Mathias, and Woodin proved in [21] that, provided that
holds in a model M of ZF, then forcing with
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
, where
is a Ramsey ultrafilter, with many properties of the original model M. This begged the question of how important the Ramseyness of
is for these results. In this paper, we show that several classes of
-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
,
, forcing non-p-points also produce barren extensions.