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Investing in Local Food and Organic Farms

Slow Money Summer Update

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Slow Money Institute is a non-profit organization catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that “bring money back down to earth.”
Sep 04, 2014

Woody Tasch

Dear Slow Money Friend,

Our summer was eventful and this fall is shaping up to be even more eventful.

Over the past several months, our growth has continued apace. We’ve now got 20 local networks and 13 investment clubs, and we’ve passed $38 million in funding to 350 small food enterprises.

Looking ahead, November’s gathering in Louisville, KY promises to be a threshold for us. We will be hosting our first Master Class for local leaders there. We will be issuing our first State of the Sector Report. The event program features everything from an opening with Wendell Berry to a closing panel with leaders of Slow Food, Slow Money and Slow Church.

Slow Church? you ask. Well, if you’re curious about that, you might also be curious about BEETCOIN.

We’ll be going live with BEETCOIN next week. . .until then, use your imagination.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Louisville.

—Woody

 

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While 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 suggest anything teeming.

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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 comparison has stuck with me.

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