Meet Will Harris, owner of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia and one of our mentor-farmers at CRARS. Over the past 25 years it has been his pride and joy to have transformed about 3000 acres of degraded cropland into a fully regenerative and 100% certified organic ranch that not only supplies meat, eggs, and vegetables for the local community and surrounding region. It also has provided jobs for 165 people, including the 16 new workers brought on during this pandemic year, in one of the poorest counties in the state of Georgia. In particular, this has created dramatic improvements for Bluffton, a once-impoverished town of just 100 people, as all processing of the meat is now done locally and humanely right at the ranch. And recently, due to a study published in “Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems,” Harris received the happy news that his work has paid off in terms of making the world healthier in the face of climate change as well!
