Should Regenerative Farmers Pin Hopes on RFK Jr.’s MAHA?
August 19, 2025 | Source: Civil Eats | by Lisa Held
Over the past two decades, Will Harris has become a thought leader and superstar among farmers intent on transforming American agriculture. At White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, he moved his cattle, chickens, and hogs back outside onto pastures, certified his vegetables organic, invested in practices that build healthy soil, built processing infrastructure, and created his own distribution networks.
In the process, his operation became a model for treating animals and the land well while building financial, community, and environmental resilience across America’s rural landscape. Along the way, he hasn’t shied away from positioning his approach as a means to take back power from global meatpackers and end harms caused by industrial food production.
It’s the kind of farming—and thinking—that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, has long celebrated as a health and environmental advocate.