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We’ve passed the $20 million mark. That’s right. Over the past two years, more than $20 million has flowed, via Slow Money activities, into 170 small food enterprises across the United States. We now have 14 chapters and six investment clubs, with more on the way. Read letter.

Biodiversity vs Monoculture: Small organic farms like Rick Knoll’s result in fewer pollutants, less environmental degradation, and cleaner air. Photography by Douglas Gayeton.

Castanea Foundation and Creamery Form Ag Investment Model

A shortage of goat milk was the beginning of an innovative investment currently midstride in Vermont. Allison Hooper and Bob Reese, co-owners of Vermont Creamery, wanted to invigorate dairy goat farming in their state. Read story.

Compost Company Strikes a Royalty Deal

Is it possible to use cow manure to turn a profit? That’s the question entrepreneur Teddy Stray had mulled over for years on his wife’s multigenerational family ranch, renowned for its award-winning Pt. Reyes Farmstead Blue Cheese. Read story.

“The earth demands the labor of a true man, not the gyrations of a senseless machine, in order to give of her best, and thus quality in farming, as malnutrition has shown us to our bitter cost, must forever take precedence of quantity.” See more.

H.J. Massingham, Field Fellowship, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1942). Excerpt selected by Eliot Coleman, author of the Four Season Harvest and the New Organic Grower; founding member and board member of Slow Money.

What does “bringing money back down to earth” mean to you? Please send us a video one minute or less in length, telling us how what you do in the world dovetails with the Slow Money Principles and vision.

Select the video above to watch the first-ever Slow Money Minute, by Lopa Brunjes.

Farm photography by Douglas Gayeton

Illustrations by Jere Dean / Urban Octopus