Hank Will

Hank Will is a business leader, academic, and agricultural practitioner devoted to conservation and small-scale, sustainable agriculture and he currently serves as MOTHER EARTH NEWS Editor-at-Large. Will’s small-scale, high-cash flow farming experience spans more than four decades with projects as varied as native perennial plants and heirloom laying chickens. His current project, Prairie Turnip Farm in rural Osage County, Kansas, is home to a direct market Highland beef, Will’s landrace lamb, and a small broiler business. Will has authored or co-authored seven books and hundreds of articles, and he enjoys maintaining the open-pollinated corn varieties his great-grandfather developed. He enjoys making Finnish-style puukko knives in his spare time.