We are different - Nature's Atlas

WE ARE DIFFERENT

The simple version of “why we are different” lies in the fact that our animals are raised on our own farms and those of our partners using our feed and humane protocols.

Our regenerative production emphasizes heirloom and specialty genetics with no synthetic inputs. Nature’s Atlas has designed a feeding program that yields a product with a superior balance of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The company is especially proud of the resulting healthy fat profile of its meat and poultry. The fat is high in the mono saturated oleic acid which is typical of healthy Mediterranean diets. Oleic acid supports a healthy heart and brain, helps fight cancer, fights infections, and reduces the incidence of diabetes. The Nature’s Atlas organic feeding program is naturally balanced in vitamins and minerals.

This means we NEVER use meat from unknown animals that may have been treated poorly or injected with antibiotics, hormones, and subjected to any bad practices common in the food industry.

We ARE intimately involved in the origins, heritage, and ensured humane treatment of our animals.

WE ARE PROUDLY DIFFERENT.

WHERE IT STARTED

Building a Community-Centered, Trusted, and Transparent Food Supply

Rooted in Culture
Respecting the Land
Honoring Traditions
Building Relationships

It all started through five generations of biodiverse farming and heritage livestock breeding in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains with a farm-to-market movement that rippled throughout the Midwest.

Founders bold enough to challenge the “agroindustry” status quo.

Who sought to preserve and propagate heirloom seeds and animal breeds that were outside the control of the typical corporate conglomerates.

Deploying farming practices inspired by the foresight of the Kremer Brothers.

One brother is internationally known for his unbiased, sound, scientific studies of the impacts of glyphosate on the microbials of soil, animal, and human health.

The other brother led the antibiotic resistance, animal welfare, and save the family farm campaigns that connected the conscious consumer to their food.

The pioneer of the statement “you are what you eat eats!”

Both were impacted by the ways of modern-day agriculture, the damage it caused to the land they loved, and its impact on the health and well-being of those they held most dear, including a non-Hodgkins lymphoma survivor and loss of a parent that succumbed to dementia.

Together, they shared a vision for a better food system that could heal communities.

That vision then found its vessel.

That vessel was a Midwestern farm girl, whose unique life-experiences from the small town to the underbelly of Washington DC to the Great Wall of China, shed light on the “behind closed doors” forces that impacted input controls, infrastructure limitations, markets, products, and policies throughout the global food supply chain.

Together, these founders developed and acted upon a strategic plan for a new food paradigm that balanced the best interests of humanity and the planet.

Nature’s Atlas will not rest until food security and sovereignty are in balance with nature.

Our ability to ethically navigate how we feed a growing population without compromising land stewardship, humane practices, nourishment and taste is why Nature’s Atlas is your trusted and transparent solution to a new food paradigm.

This is where Nature’s Atlas was born.

With a solution-focused mindset and can-do attitude, Nature’s Atlas brought together a leading, diverse, and experienced team of farmers, land stewards, agronomists, nutritionists, microbiologists, teachers, engineers, economists, lawyers, policy experts, artists, and filmmakers.

Deploying regionalized, circular economies that focus on local
geographic strengths and tightening the supply chain.

Embodied in economic and environmental sustainability.

The Nature’s Atlas model results in real food where “you can taste the love.”

We know our food is preventative medicine.

Simply, we believe the impossible is probable.

We know our food is preventative medicine.

Simply, we believe the impossible is probable.

Better food for a better future!

We Believe!

Explore Our Founder’s Story

Discover Our Mission and Values

The Nature’s Atlas story is really a simple one. We are group of people who shared a vision to revolutionize a very broken food system and intimately understood that to challenge the controls of the status quo it would take a bold vision, quick action, and leadership whose backgrounds and experiences where from walks of life that were not beholden or influenced by the same companies that have dominated our food industry for the past several decades. Nature’s Atlas announced its vision in May of 2018 and immediately began driving change from each end of the food supply spectrum and is unwavering on its commitment to correct the markets and its related food narratives.
Honesty and integrity are paramount in everything we do.

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Our founders understood the value in hard-work and meaningful relationships as it is through their background and passion for getting their hands dirty on their own diversified family farms since childhood combined with their experience and multi-generational connections in port and logistics, markets, legal, multi-country government relations and trade that afforded Nature’s Atlas the comprehensive know-how and determination to create a roadmap for change. But what makes us relatable is that our real-life challenges are at the heart of what drives us, including our personal and family health issues that are sadly not unique as Americans are battling a health epidemic that drastically impacts the quality and longevity of life. Despite the powers that attempt to suppress the science and omit material facts from their talking points, there is a direct correlation to our current food system that can no longer be ignored.

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One of the most powerful lessons our founders learned from the East and Europe is the daily importance of taking a more holistic and preventative approach to health and understanding the relationship with food and how that fuels and sustains the function of life. Eating the right combination of foods that are free from known carcinogens and foreign substances that are bodies cannot properly digest cannot be a right reserved for those who can afford it nor can we alter the definitions of words, manipulate food claims and labels that are knowingly deceiving consumers, and fail to disclose material facts. We are slowly deteriorating the trust within our own domestic food system, minimizing the value of Made in the USA, and leaving our domestic consumers with the meats and grains that to not meet more stringent international export standards or international market preferences. This is just simply unacceptable and in our opinion contrary to the values of America as our food policies and standards should be “by the people for the people” and it is time that returns. Our founders knew that talking about it was not enough and so they put forth a corrective operational plan that is working and will continue to demonstrate a different way that is scalable, replicable, and sustainable.

Our founders understand that in the short-run this position may not be received well among some leadership within the agricultural community, but it is because of our extensive market experience that we are committed to a transitional and corrective plan to ensure that there is value and trust behind products that are Made in the USA, that we have future diversified market access that will pay our farmers for the value of what they are producing, and that the type of innovation we bring forth to the market is regarded as opposed to resisted.

There is a way to accomplish this and it will take the initiatives of companies such as Nature’s Atlas willing to put forth alternative methods. Not a small, fast, nor easy call to action, but our founders were driven to this calling!

Karla Klingner

Karla Klingner has built an extensive career in the agricultural and logistics sector. She currently serves as the CEO of Nature’s Atlas. Nature’s Atlas, matches world capital with business ventures to stimulate rural economic growth and create sustainable jobs in the food, agricultural and manufacturing industries as well as consults with domestic and foreign companies on globalization and political strategies. For the past six years, she has focused a majority of her time working directly in the foreign market with governments, investors, local cooperative partners and industry experts to ensure that transparency and integrity exists through the entire process. With over twenty years of experience in the legal, business, federal and international political arenas, Ms. Klingner brings a common sense, comprehensive approach for her farm, family, agri-business and immigration clients.

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RUSS KREMER

Russ Kremer is a diversified family farmer and manager of Heritage Foods, a national processor, marketer and distributor of natural and organic protein products. His farming enterprises include humanely and sustainably raised hogs and cattle as well as chemical free vegetables, crops, hay, and timber. His hogs have the run of his pastoral 150 acres, rest in open, clean stalls, nosh on all-natural feed, and are never injected with antibiotics.

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