September 14 • 3 min read
UpdatesI don’t know what a bitcoin is. I know how bitcoin is described in the media, that it is called a crypto-currency, that the Japanese programmer who created it is shrouded in secrecy, that it has been used by drug dealers, that venture capitalists are pouring billions of dollars into “mining” it.
Woody Tasch
Founder, Slow Money Institute
August 21 • 10 min read
UpdatesDaphne Miller, MD, (Brown University; Harvard Medical School), is a practicing family physician, author, and associate clinical professor at the University of California San Francisco. For the past 15 years, her leadership, advocacy, and writing have focused on aligning all aspects of food production and agriculture with human health. Daphne is the author of two<a href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/a-conversation-with-dr-daphne-miller/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"A Conversation With Dr. Daphne Miller"</span></a>
Woody Tasch
Founder, Slow Money Institute
July 11 • 4 min read
UpdatesZephyros Farm and Garden has always sought diversity and quality in its organic production. When Daphne and I started this farm 13 years ago, like many young couples starting out, we wanted it all; every vegetable under the sun, flowers, sheep, goats, chickens, turkeys, children, worms, compost, and a life for ourselves. After many years<a href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/how-a-zero-percent-loan-is-helping-this-colorado-farm/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"How a Zero-Percent Loan is Helping This Colorado Farm"</span></a>
Don Lareau
Co-Owner and Operator, Zephyros Farm
June 20 • 10 min read
UpdatesIt is not uncommon for farmers to talk about the influence their grandparents had on their farming education and their eventual success in agriculture. I am no different. But my story comes with a unique twist. My paternal grandfather, Leander Walter Townsend Coleman, was born in 1868 but was not a farmer. Unfortunately for my<a href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/my-agricultural-grandparents/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"My Agricultural Grandparents"</span></a>
Eliot Coleman
Farmer and author
June 20 • 8 min read
UpdatesWhile I was searching for images of life in the soil, I came upon the following on Sweet Bay Farm’s website (see above). They’re working to restore soils depleted by decades of monoculture—the continual cultivation of a single crop, in this case tobacco—so this picture of several earthworm tunnels in a clod does not yet<a href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/real-billions-and-real-trillions/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"Real Billions and Real Trillions"</span></a>
Woody Tasch
Founder, Slow Money Institute
June 19 • 3 min read
UpdatesWoody Tasch: Jeff, before we begin, I want to thank you for the images of the jars of water, one with soil rich in organic matter and one with the dissolved murkiness of soil that is deficient in carbon. Ever since you showed those images during a public talk a decade or so ago, the<a href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/a-conversation-with-jeff-moyer/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"A Conversation With Jeff Moyer"</span></a>
Woody Tasch
Founder, Slow Money Institute
