reNourish Studio

Curious about how businesses can create systemic impact beyond profit? In our latest podcast, we explore how two companies are rethinking the value they are delivering beyond the products they sell. They’re not just making money—they’re contributing to the transformation of the food system. While listening, consider what difference an expanded perspective on value might make in your business. https://lnkd.in/gqActD3y And don’t forget—our Fall Zoom Series kicks off this Friday, Oct 25! Join us for six interactive sessions that will guide you through a process of regenerating your business for profit and purpose. Sign up today: https://lnkd.in/gTXgwhBk Lisle Richards Leigh Buckley Joel Glanzberg Eric Pierce Lauren Tucker Page Mitchum Isle of Us Blue Quest

🌱 What if the future we’re working to create was already here? What would it look like? 🌱 Food is medicine—it nourishes our health, our bodies, and communities. It’s at the heart of everything, connecting us all across cultures and ecosystems. The food system we’ve built—from farming to processing, CPG to retail—shapes how well we thrive. But what if we reimagined this infrastructure to work with life, instead of depleting it? 🌍 We believe that by working together, in community, we can evolve the food system. This isn’t about idealism or a picture-perfect future. It’s about doing the deep work—facing challenges, struggles, and setbacks—and pushing forward to transform from degeneration to regeneration. Together, we can reshape the system. Because we are the system. 💡 Curious how we’re making this happen? Join us for our Intro to Business Evolution Zoom Series, where we come together to engage with decades of collective wisdom and regenerate ourselves, our businesses and our food system. 6 sessions // October 25 - December 13 Sign up today: https://lnkd.in/gTXgwhBk Megan Westgate Heather K. Terry Iain Ward Julia Collins Philip Taylor, Ph.D. Lara Jackle Dickinson Mark Retzloff Sarah Day Levesque

We know the current role of certifications is not working when the outcome is 1 in 5 women working in ‘sustainably certified’ sugar cane fields is coerced into getting a hysterectomy to enable them to work harder and become increasingly indebted to their employers. The human rights violations listed in the New York Times article linked below are atrocious and inexcusable. Yet if we can look at these terrible situations, move beyond our pain, anger, and shame to get curious about how we ended up here it tells us something very profound about our food standards and certifications. We need to regenerate the role of certifications in our food system. When we stop to think about ʻrulesʻ and how we have reacted to them since childhood it becomes a whole lot clearer why certifications at large have been ineffective at delivering transparency, truth, and a food system that nourishes all life. Certifying bodies today are put in a hard position; limited resources, messy supply chains, backwards incentive structures, and overtaxed producers are just some of the pieces that make this job difficult. This is why reNourish has developed a community of practice that brings together people at all points of the supply chain (not just certifiers) to work on regenerating how we approach certifications and standards and evolve our system so that our legacy is so much more beautiful that what is shown in this article. If you are tired of constantly feeling the pressure of a broken system and your businesses inability to solve all of it or even work within it. We suggest you sign up for one of our upcoming offerings on our website www.renourishstudio.com Regenerative Organic AllianceElizabeth Whitlow Rodale Inc. Rodale Institute Annie Brown Bridget D. Gilmore Jeff Tkach Tammy Hobar Demeter Fibershed Real Organic Project Regenified™ Land to Market https://lnkd.in/gZp6zWrZ

Want to get controversial in CPG?  Mention seed oils….. ❓Do you automatically react with ‘good’ or ‘bad’? ❓Do you start sorting the different types of oil into cost buckets? ❓Do you have a story about why or why not?  ❓Do you immediately see a sourcing disparity within your supply chain? Lot’s of companies are grappling with this question. Many have a foundational belief.  Others are actively trying to move from one ingredient to another.  Some have chosen to not engage. Regardless as to where you land on the spectrum, the same question will pop up year after year… Is this ingredient GOOD or BAD?  Can we do BETTER?  Could we do WORSE? And while the singular focus on a singular ingredient can be intoxicating, what if the question is less about 1 ingredient and more about the system those ingredients sprout from? …Can you ‘fix’ the food system through a singular ingredient?  No.  …Can you embrace ingredient trends and expand your business? Maybe. …Can you bring vitality to your business and regenerate its potential without chasing the latest ____  Yes. At reNourish we explore your business and the system that it’s a part of as one instead of fragmented entities.  We step outside the black and white thinking of GOOD vs BAD to find new potentials that make your business non-displaceable in the marketplace.  And we have fun doing it. What’s the Good vs Bad in your business you want to tackle through a different lens? 

Known Truths:  We cannot decouple economic growth and environmental impact. GDP growth is not a good proxy for social well being. If these things are true, why have taken the concept of ‘wealth’ and ‘capital’ and collapsed them into one metric: GDP growth. What would it look like to regenerate how we view capital? To see the whole of wealth and capital in all of its forms?  What would our agricultural system look like if financial capital were balanced with the other 4 forms of capital? What if human, social, produced, and natural capital were distributed across our business ecosystems and each a valued component? This might seem like a fool's errand to some, however, these are the types of questions that we ask in the studio that lead to groundbreaking innovation for the companies we work with. We are tackling some of the biggest challenges in our food industry and have developed a community where curiosity has no bounds, creativity thrives, and collaboration is a daily practice. Learn about how we are tackling the topic of financial capital and hear from cohort members Alex Shabtai Erin Feger  about the shifts in their thinking and their work since being in the studio. The Hungry for Regeneration Podcast is available wherever you listen to podcasts. Biome Capital Partners David Leon Cameron Miller

An invitation to think about our food standards differently… If you have contributed to work in the realm of standards, certifications and measurement we would like to invite you to our upcoming Open Session and Zoom Series that aims to regenerate our thinking and approach on this topic. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gCdY8Eua For a taste of how current Studio Cohort members have been evolving their thinking check out the latest episode of the Hungry for Regeneration podcast, available wherever you listen to podcasts. Kiira Heymann Lauren Tucker Joel Glanzberg Caitlin Oleson Diana Kobus Non-GMO Project US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

Do you rely on consistent inputs of financial capital to stay in business? This could be a sign that you are relying too heavily on financial capital and not considering the other types of capital that you can bring into your business ecosystem. This month in the studio we are thinking about capital (in all its forms) and its diverse and important role in building business resiliency, and driving innovation across the entire network and influential reach of your business. Let's take a look at the 5 forms of capital… 🌱 Social Capital 🌱 Financial Capital 🌱 Produced Capital 🌱Human Capital 🌱 Natural Capital How does your business use each form of capital? Do you rely disproportionately on one type (say financial capital) or use one type (say natural capital) to generate all of your produced capital? What would it look like for your business to look at a bigger whole, or system that also generated natural capital? (As opposed to just extracting from it). Would this type of innovation have the ability to solve some of the day-to-day macro business challenges we mentioned above? If you are curious to learn more about how you can work with this concept of the 5 forms of capital to innovate and create resiliency in your business check out our upcoming Open Session August 29th 8-11:30am PST! https://lnkd.in/ebyPk2H6 Regenerative Food Systems Investment Philip Taylor, Ph.D. Brandon Welch Jim Baich Calla Rose Ostrander Mark Retzloff Anthony Corsaro (AC) Mark Lewis

We are bringing back a theme we saw throughout our time at Expo West because we see it as increasingly relevant to our industry: The role of defining regeneration and its impact on standards and measurements. We have all been a part of countless discussions with opinions on this topic ranging broadly. Most of these discussions happen in fragments, ignoring the whole that we and this industry operate within. - What greater lifeshed is our work serving?  - How can you value all perspectives and opinions, even thoughts you do not agree with?  - How would seeing the value in these perspectives shift our ability to see a greater lifeshed? A blog post written by cohort member Sherry Hess after our time at Expo this year covers off on these topics and more. https://lnkd.in/g-r_kezM

Recently Studio Cohort member Dana Ngo wrote a heartfelt piece about how her work in the studio has enabled her work to fulfill, heal, and evolve her relationship to her family’s past struggles with food security. Our work within the studio operates at multiple levels. While on this platform we focus primarily on business outcomes our work is as transformative on personal and interpersonal levels as it is professional. What has your experience with developing yourself personally affected how you work and collaborate? What are some of the cultural and ancestral stories surrounding food and nourishment that may impact your work today? We hope you will enjoy this most recent blog post! Dana N. https://lnkd.in/gKFXJd9E

Recently Studio Cohort member Dana Ngo wrote a heartfelt piece about how her work in the studio has enabled her work to fulfill, heal, and evolve her relationship to her family’s past struggles with food security. Our work within the studio operates at multiple levels. While on this platform we focus primarily on business outcomes our work is as transformative on personal and interpersonal levels as it is professional. What has your experience with developing yourself personally affected how you work and collaborate? What are some of the cultural and ancestral stories surrounding food and nourishment that may impact your work today? We hope you will enjoy this most recent blog post! Dana N. https://lnkd.in/gKFXJd9E