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Investing in Local Food and Organic Farms

Publications

Daniel Boese

This is Walden for the 21st century.

Daniel Boese
Journalist (Hamburg, Germany)
Tom Steyer

An idea whose time has come.

Tom Steyer

Books

SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital

by Woody Tasch

It is about billions and trillions of dollars in the global economy, and billions and trillions of microbes in healthy, fertile soil. Nurture capital is a vision of finance that starts where investing and philanthropy leave off, giving us a new way to reconnect to one another and places where we live, all the way down to local food systems and the soil.

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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

by Woody Tasch

Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live? Such questions—at the heart of slow money—represent the first steps on our path to a new economy.

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Journals, Essays, Pamphlets and Reports

Slow Money Journal, Winter 2017/18

by Slow Money Staff

The Journal includes editorials, interviews, essays, and the public remarks of thought leaders, food entrepreneurs, farmers and other participants in the Slow Money movement. This issue features Daphne Miller, Jeff Moyer, Daniela Ibarra-Howell, William Bryant Logan, Sir Albert Howard, Elaine Ingham, Courtney White, and many more.

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Slow Money Journal, Winter 2016/17

by Slow Money Staff

The Journal includes editorials, interviews, essays, and the public remarks of thought leaders, food entrepreneurs, farmers and other participants in the Slow Money movement. This issue features Don Shaffer, Gary Paul Nabhan, Odessa Piper, Fred Kirschenmann, David Montgomery, and many more.

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Slow Money Journal, Spring 2016

by Slow Money Staff

The Journal includes editorials, interviews, essays, and the public remarks of thought leaders, food entrepreneurs, farmers and other participants in the Slow Money movement. This issue features Will Harris, Joan Gussow, Eliot Coleman, Narendra Varma, Stephen Grace, and many more.

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State of the Sector Report

by Slow Money Staff

This report analyzes data from the first five years of investing through the Slow Money network (2009–2013) along with data from a survey of 42 investment funds, family offices, foundations and angel investors over the same period, covering $293 million of investment in 968 food and agriculture deals.

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Commons nth

by Woody Tasch

A Simple, Pragmatic and Neighborly Call To Action For the Age After Rogue Computer Algorithms, CDOs, GMOs, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Food Deserts, Desert Storms, and All Those Endowments, Pension Funds, Mutual Funds and Other Ungodly Humungous Institutional Pools of Capital that Are About To Discover Conscientious Investing, Saying No! to Oil and Yes! to Soil

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