Our Stance Against the "Broken System"

At Nature Farms, we are fighting against a deeply ingrained and harmful mindset: linear thinking. For too long, our world has been treated like a machine, with problems broken down into isolated parts and addressed with fragmented, mechanistic fixes. This way of thinking, which reduces our soils to mere dirt, our people to parts, and our societies to machines, is killing the very life that sustains us. It's a mindset that leads to unintended consequences, creating a polycrisis of interconnected global challenges impacting our food, health, and climate systems.

This linear approach has given us a food system designed for calorie deficiencies, not for the nutrient-dense foods vital to human health, contributing to a growing population suffering from declining functional health and an expensive, inefficient healthcare system. It has seen big corporations hollow out rural towns and transform vast tracts of land into damaging industrial agriculture, making it nearly impossible for smaller, regenerative farms to thrive or even get financing.

We believe this system is fundamentally broken, and systemic problems require systemic solutions. We challenge the notion that you can simply replace a part or add a new gadget to fix a living organism.

Our Different Approach: Thinking Like Gardeners, Not Engineers

Nature Farms embodies a systemic transformation that rejects mechanistic thinking in favor of living systems thinking. We don't try to control nature; we work with its intrinsic intelligence, acting as gardeners, not engineers. Our purpose is to nurture the conditions for life to emerge full of potential.

Inspired by mentors like Tre Cates, who teaches us to create the conditions for life, and John Kempf, who reminds us that "it is healthy plants which create healthy soil", we are cultivating regenerative farms that heal the land, deliver truly nutrient-dense foods, and build resilient, thriving communities. We understand that the value of nutrition extends from the soil to health insurance, which is why we're building a regenerative and coherent local supply chain focused on functional health and local resiliency.

We're driven by innovation and persistence, crafting solutions like our unique demand-side financing with tax-free municipal bonds through special-purpose districts to empower communities to collectively own and govern their farms. This allows residents to become active participants in a kinder, greener world, fostering community capital and self-organization, as championed by Chris Miller and Elinor Ostrom.

We are committed to long-term regeneration over short-term harvests. When you consider Nature Farms, you're not just buying into a farm; you're investing in a new paradigm, a hope for a better future. We invite you to experience our brand world, to truly "smell the soil" with us, and join a community that believes in building systems aligned with the principles of life itself. We are here for the long-term, persevering despite challenges, because we know our collective future depends on it.