A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by Will Harris

A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by Will Harris

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.

Harris, Will: - Will Harris is a London based poet of Anglo-Indonesian heritage, and has garnered much attention with his book-length essay Mixed-Race Superman (Peninsula Press & Melville House). He's the author of the chapbook All This is Implied, winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. In 2016, he was part of an Evening Standard feature on the 'new guard' of London poets; he was shortlisted for the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize; he was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem for 'SAY' (Poetry Review). He is published widely, in the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Granta, The Poetry Review, Poetry London and The White Review, among many others.

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ISBN 13	9780593300473
ISBN 10	0593300475
Title	A Bold Return to Giving a Damn
Author	Will Harris
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2023-10-10
Number of pages	304
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