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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Regenerative Agriculture

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Will Harris is a 4th generation rancher who has adapted his land to a regenerative agriculture system. The switch occurred after Will had an epiphany about the inherent problems of the industrial system of cattle ranching. Today, he uses the wisdom of his great-grandfather, and the cycles of nature to raise some of the best cattle around. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RolUy7 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PH5W0M Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3sVDCis EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3EFkmZ7 Connect With Will Harris: Will Harris is a fourth-generation cattleman, who tends the same land that his great-grandfather settled in 1866. Born and raised at White Oak Pastures, Will left home to attend the University of Georgia's School of Agriculture, where he was trained in the industrial farming methods that had taken hold after World War II. Will graduated in 1976 and returned to Bluffton where he and his father continued to raise cattle using pesticides, herbicides, hormones, and antibiotics. They also fed their herd a high-carbohydrate diet of corn and soy. In the mid-1990s Will became disenchanted with the excesses of these industrialized methods. They had created a monoculture for their cattle, and, as Will says, "nature abhors a monoculture." In 1995, Will made the audacious decision to return to the farming methods his great-grandfather had used 130 years before.  Instagram Website Facebook YouTube Twitter Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design.   Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead!  Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If there's one thing I've learned about the garden, it is that it plays in to the greater

0:08.2

ecosystem.

0:09.2

So today I'm really excited.

0:11.2

We have Will Harris on the show.

0:14.4

He is a fourth generation cattle man who really tends to the same land that his great grandfather

0:19.9

settled in 1866, transitioning it from a more industrial cattle ranch to a regenerative

0:27.2

agriculture ranch.

0:28.2

I'm really excited to have you on the show.

0:29.6

Will, this is something that I personally don't know much about only through perhaps watching

0:34.5

or listening to someone like yourself talk about it.

0:37.0

I don't have any direct experience.

0:38.3

I'm really excited to chat with you.

0:39.8

Well, thank you for having me, Kevin.

0:41.9

I appreciate you being here on your show.

0:44.3

Yeah, yeah.

0:45.3

So if we take it back to, you know, it's a fourth generation.

0:47.6

So you guys, your family's been doing this for quite some time.

0:51.0

But are you the one who has transitioned it from, I guess, sort of a more monocultural

0:56.3

cattle system to this regen system?

0:58.9

I am.

0:59.9

And in fact, in fact, I operated as an industrial cattle operation for the first 20 years of

1:05.3

my career.

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