In this episode, Ryan sits down with Will Harris, a sixth-generation cattleman and owner of White Oak Pastures, a 158-year-old family farm in Bluffton, Georgia.
Will reflects on the farm’s full arc, from industrial cattle production to a living, regenerative ecosystem and the hard lessons learned along the way. He explains how efforts to dominate nature through chemicals, confinement, and control ultimately backfired, and why rebuilding soil organic matter, respecting ecological limits, and working within natural systems became the foundation of renewal.
We discuss land stewardship across generations, the moral responsibility of farming, rebuilding rural economies through local food, and why humility (not technology) is essential if humans are going to coexist with the natural world rather than push it toward collapse.
