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Will Harris is the owner of White Oak Pastures: a family farm utilizing regenerative agriculture and humane animal husbandry practices. Jenni Harris, his daughter, is the marketing manager of White Oak Pastures. Will's new book "A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food" is available now.  www.whiteoakpastures.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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2h 8m
Broadcast on
14 Nov 2023
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Will Harris is the owner of White Oak Pastures: a family farm utilizing regenerative agriculture and humane animal husbandry practices. Jenni Harris, his daughter, is the marketing manager of White Oak Pastures. Will's new book "A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food" is available now.  www.whiteoakpastures.com

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(dramatic music) - Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. - The Joe Rogan Experience. - Trained by day Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music) - Welcome back, well, how are you, sir? - Good, thank you. - Good to see you. - Good to see you. - Please introduce the world to your daughter. - Get my middle daughter, Jenny Harris, who is, used to work for me, but now I work for her. (laughing) - Get used to it. - That's gotta be interesting. - Well, we'll tell you about it. - Please do, and you guys are the first people to ever bring dirt to the studio, so I wanna thank you for that. - You're a spool and welcome. - So here is your soil and compared to industrial commodity, what does this say, dirt, row crop. So you can see the difference in the, I mean, I don't know if you guys can see it very clearly in the video, but one of them is very light colored and the other one looks rich and dark and it's filled with twigs and all sorts of biological material. - Let's try some worms in there. - Yeah, probably. And this looks like what I'd like to grow something on, whereas this looks like some stuff that blows in the wind when it gets dry out. - I'm gonna show you that. - Yeah, please do. - And it came from side by side, one side of the fence versus the other side of the fence. There's no difference, other than the way they've been managed over the last 20 years. - Yeah, and we've showed many times that video of the, was it a creek or a river near your house where the runoff from their farm is just polluting the water. I mean, a very clear line. I mean, the difference is so stark. It's so stark and how is that legal, by the way? - Let me tell you what you see in there, so the brown water is coming off my farm. The red water is coming under the road. There's a covet there. - There's a video of that.

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Will Harris is the owner of White Oak Pastures: a family farm utilizing regenerative agriculture and humane animal husbandry practices. Jenni Harris, his daughter, is the marketing manager of White Oak Pastures. Will's new book "A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food" is available now.  www.whiteoakpastures.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices