We believe the way we bring food to market should nourish all life:
ecosystems, communities, people, animals, plants, waters, soils, spirit, and culture.
Modern agriculture has achieved extraordinary scale, calorie production, and food safety, yet it still falls short. It often leaves behind nutrition, ecological function, and the cultural and spiritual roots that make food truly life giving. For over a century, sustainable, organic, and alternative movements have worked to change the system, but the industrial model remains largely intact.
Many of us know the food system must change at its roots, yet we struggle to see a path to real transformation. We feel stuck, not knowing where to begin, or find ourselves discouraged and settling for incremental fixes that leave the deeper structures untouched.
We believe the path forward begins with how we see, understand, and work with the world around us. Around five hundred years ago, European philosophers, including René Descartes and Isaac Newton, laid the foundations for the dominant paradigm we live in today, one that isolates and fragments in order to study and control. They introduced the idea that the world is like a machine, something to be predicted, managed, and optimized. For the last four centuries, we have been trying to manage the Earth and our food system this way.
But the Earth and all living systems are complex, relational, nested, and ultimately unpredictable. We cannot shift complexity by breaking it into parts. We must see whole systems, patterns and work with the way life actually functions. So let’s work first with our paradigm in order to bring about systems evolution.
Like mycelia, we connect what has been fragmented, spark possibilities where there is stagnation, and help leaders see whole systems as alive and evolving.
Over the years, we tried many paths to shift our extractive food system. Each created a change, but none created the conditions for deep systemic evolution. That’s when we began focusing on the paradigms and beliefs that shape how we see the world, in order to see new potential to evolve the patterns and structures of our current food system.
Our approach is grounded in regenerative development and regenerative business practice. It draws from Eastern and Western philosophy, living systems thinking, and quantum theory. It is grounded in the belief that humans are one with the living world and inseparable. Our work is influenced by the teachings of Carol Sanford, Pamela Mang, and the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice. We also bring our own lived experience in regenerative agriculture, market development, tracking, permaculture, finance, herbalism, somatic healing, and earth-based spirituality to inform our practice.
Lauren Frances Tucker is the Founder and CEO of reNourish Studio, with over a decade of experience working in food system transformation. Her leadership in building multi-stakeholder market systems for regenerative agriculture has shaped White Buffalo Land Trust’s initiatives, including The Almond Project, The Elderberry Project, and C4 Cotton. Previously, Lauren co-founded and served as Executive Director of Kiss the Ground, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization committed to raising global awareness about the importance of healthy soils and regenerative agriculture. Lauren currently serves on the board of Seatopia. Her experience in living systems strategy, market initiatives, regenerative agriculture, soil science, permaculture, and herbalism informs her leadership approach at the Studio and with clients.
Rachel Kastner is a regenerative strategist and facilitator bringing over a decade of experience in regenerative agriculture, supply systems, sustainability, and systems design. She has designed and led regenerative agriculture initiatives across the food, fiber, and natural products industries. Rachel works with organizational and business leaders on strategy, market development, and supply system transformation. Rachel enjoys supporting clients and projects through facilitation, strategic planning, and stakeholder engagement.
With over twenty five years of experience as an applied naturalist, leading and designing community development projects, Joel helps clients identify principles and guidelines for appropriate and healthy development. An active author and educator in the fields of permaculture and ecological design, Joel is skilled in cross-cultural communication and teaching. He is a faculty member for the Regenerative Practitioner Series hosted by Regenesis. He has taught throughout the United States as well as in Africa and South America, and worked with a variety of Native American tribes and communities.
Trevanna spends her career working at the intersections of how people relate with the living world and how we develop our thinking and actions within it. Weaving her twenty years of training and experience in both backcountry wilderness guiding and organizational strategic consulting, Trevanna Frost Grenfell challenges and supports leaders to practice this kind of “living systems thinking” so that our work and our world can truly thrive.
reNourish Studio was founded in 2021 as a program of Farmer’s Footprint. In 2024, we became an independent entity, marking an exciting new chapter in our journey. To honor our roots, we donate 1% of profits each year to Farmer’s Footprint, giving back to the organization that supported our beginning.
