A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food by Harris, Will

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food

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"If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book." --Ruth Reichl

From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm on a better future for our food, animals, land, local communities, and our climate

Raised as a fourth-generation farmer, when Will Harris inherited White Oak Pastures he was a full-time commodity cowboy who played hard and fast with every tool the system offered - chemicals, antibiotics, steroids, and more. His ancestors had built a highly profitable, conventionally-run machine, but over time he found himself disgusted with the excess, cruelty, and smalltown devastation this system entailed. So he bet the farm on forging a different way of doing things. One that works with nature not against it, and bridges the quickly widening delta between consumers and their food. Armed with tenacity, conviction and an outsized tolerance for risk, Harris called his approach "radical traditional" and it made him the pioneer of regenerative agriculture long before the phrase existed.

At once an intimate, multi-generational memoir and a microcosm of American agriculture at large, A BOLD RETURN TO GIVING A DAMN offers a pathway back to producing food the right way. At a time when food supply chains are straining, climate-induced catastrophes are playing havoc with harvests, and concern around who owns America's farmland are more prescient than ever, Will Harris urges us to consider where the food we eat really comes from, and to re-connect to the places and people who raise what we eat each day. With keen storytelling, a good dose of irreverence, and an unflinching willingness to speak truth to power, Harris shows us why it's never been more important to know your farmer than now.

Featured in Food and Country directed by Laura Gabbert and Ruth Reichl

Author: Will Harris
Publisher: Viking
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.19w x 1.08d
ISBN: 9780593300473


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2023 pg. 23
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2023
Booklist 09/01/2023 pg. 29

About the Author
Will Harris is the owner of White Oak Pastures, a holistically managed, regenerative ranch and farm in Georgia's semi-tropical Coastal Plain. Described by his daughters as an "organic icon" of the Real Food movement, he is one of the very first people to bring grass-fed and humanely raised meat to the mainstream. Harris is one of the most outspoken critics of industrialized, centralized, and commoditized agriculture and is one of the most recognized leaders in the regenerative and resilient agriculture space. Heralded by everyone from Joe Rogan to the New York Times, White Oak Pastures has 80K Instagram followers and has been covered by Forbes, Washington Post, NPR, BBC, NBC, and more. Chances are, if you've bought grass-fed meat at Publix, Whole Foods, or Kroger, you've probably eaten meat from Harris' farm.

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