Will Harris

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Will's Wisdom: Food & Supply Shortages

Almost everything that I read predicts an eminent food shortage, and I'm pretty sure that we are going to have one.

A little more on Bill Gates, I wasn't quite done...

Will's Wisdom: In response to Bill Gates' U.S. Farmland Ownership

Will's Wisdom: Functioning Life Cycles

We get dozens of visitors to our farm every day. Some spend the night, some eat with us, and some just stop by. This is pleasing to us. We are fiercely proud of what we do.  

The Farmer's Role in the Food System

The farmer can, and probably will, be taken out of the equation when his utility is gone. We have been left in the equation (food chain) because we provide land, labor, and other inputs at a lower cost than the big boys in the chain (big AG, food processing, food service companies) can provide for...

Will's Wisdom: Cheap Food Ain't Cheap

A couple of years ago, I was asked to speak at the Old Boulderado Hotel in Boulder, Colorado.  It is a historical building that has been well kept up since its heyday in the early 1900's.

Will's Wisdom: Managing for Money vs Land & Livestock & Community

We have a lot of visitors on the farm, and we are grateful to have them. We operate this farm with complete transparency. We show them everything that we do. And we answer all questions that they ask. We even respond to questions about financial matters that most people would consider too...

Will’s Wisdom: Seeing ‘Out of Stock’ messages should reassure our customers

We get a fair amount of complaints because we are often “out of stock” on items in our online store. It pisses customers off, and we hate that.

Will’s Wisdom: It ain't about just measuring the damn carbon

We’ve broken more than just the carbon cycle

Will’s Wisdom: “Animal manure is a valuable currency”

Will's Wisdom: Solar operators should utilize grazing as their vegetation control tool

All land has a natural state that is the result of its evolution. This natural state is impacted by rainfall [quantity & timing], temperature [how hot or cold and for how long], elevation, mineral composition, microbial population, daylight length, seasonality, and other factors that we can’t...

Will's Wisdom: We Broke Our Food System in Three Ways

Over the last 75 years, we have broken our food production system in three ways. 

We industrialized, centralized, and commoditized agriculture [food production].

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