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White Oak Pastures

Also known as: Will Harris's farm

A 3,200-acre, fifth-generation Georgia farm transformed by Will Harris in the 1990s from a conventional cattle operation into one of the most-studied multi-species regenerative systems in North America — ten species across rotated pastures, on-farm USDA-inspected red-meat and poultry abattoirs, and the rare working example of full vertical integration at meaningful scale. A 2019 LCA found the farm's grass-finished beef to be net carbon-negative.

Why this listing

White Oak Pastures is the worked example for vertical integration as substrate-building — they raise the animals, run the abattoirs, butcher the meat, and ship it direct. That structure is what lets the regenerative claims pencil out: the value the system creates stays inside the system instead of leaking to processors and middlemen. The farm has also become a major regional employer in a county that needed one. Listed here as a substrate-builder for soil, microbiome, and rural economy at once.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Shares approach with: [[polyface-farm]] · [[browns-ranch]]
  • Member of: [[farm]]
  • Practiced by: [[savory-institute]]

Sources

  • White Oak Pastures published materials and Quantis 2019 LCA
  • [[will-harris|Will Harris]], A Bold Return to Giving a Damn (2023)
  • Land to Market verification records

Rooted in life.

Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[regenerative-agriculture]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]].

What links here, and how

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Practical

shares approach with

  • Force of Nature Meats two of the most-visible regenerative-meat operations in the US — White Oak grows it, Force of Nature distributes it nationally

founded

  • Will Harris the multi-generational Georgia ranch transitioned from commodity feedlot to fully-integrated regenerative operation

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