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Investing in Local Food and Organic Farms

Winners ANNOUNCED! $50,000 for the Mamma Chia Entrepreneur of the Year

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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.”
Apr 30, 2013

 

Revision International took first place and won the $50,000 award. In addition, during the course of the proceedings Mamma Chia committed to match a second prize, raised by the audience, which came to a total of $8,200. This People’s Choice Award prize was given to Hayden Flour Mills of Phoenix, AZ

Revision International, of Denver, CO, is “a community-owned food cooperative that will aggregate, market, and distribute food grown and processed by low-income families in Southwest Denver.”

Hayden Flour Mills, of Phoenix, AZ, is “a family business working to revive heritage and ancient grains in the desert. We have revived the tradition that started in Tempe, Arizona, over 125 years ago by Charles Hayden and his Hayden Flour Mills. While not milled at the iconic Hayden Flour Mills’ building, our fresh flour harkens back to a time when flour still was full of nutrients and flavor.”

Learn more at:

http://www.revisioninternational.org/

http://www.haydenflourmills.com/

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Real Billions and Real Trillions

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.

A Conversation With Jeff Moyer

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.

Colorado Soil Systems Receives 0% Loan

In 2016, Colorado Soil Systems received a $15,000 zero-percent loan from the 2Forks Club. This loan allowed us to establish a fruit-tree rootstock nursery to preserve indigenous trees that grow in the valley; purchase irrigation supplies, fencing, and soil amendments; and embark on a vegetable- and flower- production operation.

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