The Prison to Liberation Pipeline
How Planting Justice is changing the way we think about land, ownership, and justice.
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Funding
Money from the many: Crowdfunding options for food businesses
With the arrival of crowdfunding, many bureaucratic hurdles for raising funds have been removed. For too long, raising capital in small businesses meant either being at the mercy of bank underwriter or a lengthy process with affluent angel investors, involving lawyers and a lot of paperwork. Now, entrepreneurs can use many different crowdfunding options. What
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Seven ways to invest Slow Money in food businesses
Slow Money investors have used various mechanisms to put money into sustainable food businesses. Here is a (simplified) overview about the seven main “modes”.
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The Capay Valley Farm Shop: A Good Bet on the Farm(s)
Aggregation, distribution, scale—such are the new buzzwords in the world of grocery delivery platforms. In recent years, AmazonFresh, Good Eggs, and Instacart, to name a few, have used the power of big data and the web to launch grocery delivery services in select markets with the hope of achieving a broader rollout. Promising locally grown
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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Let us dare to imagine an investor who has the sacred passion of an earthworm, slowly making his or her way through the soil of commerce and culture, playing a small, vital role in the maintenance of fertility.
Now, whether such notions have any practical import to the task of creating this new entity called Slow Money seems, at first, implausible. But it isn’t so.
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