Inspired by a visit from Woody Tasch in May of 2010 (author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money,) Slow Money NC set out to build resilience in our local food economy by facilitating the making of low-interest loans to local, sustainable food and farming businesses.
Many of us have a variety of investments which travel the globe at the speed of light and have no relationship to us, or to the products we use, or to the community which is North Carolina. We think we need to change that. With Slow Money NC our money comes back home to our community, and back down to earth. Here’s how.
We vote with every dollar we spend. Making a difference is much more fun than being just Ho Hum
Slow Money NC gives you a way to reconnect with a portion of the money that you entrusted to strangers in faraway places and, instead, help build a more local, durable economy from the soil up! When you make a loan to a farmer or other local food enterprises so they can expand and flourish, you can truly enjoy the fruits of their labor.
If we each invested just 1% of our portfolios in enhancing our local food systems the change would be extraordinary. Our money could quickly go to work enriching our lives, instead of the lives of faraway bankers.
When thousands of people do something small it can make a very big difference.
If you include “meaning” in your investment metric, you will find making Slow Money loans offers insanely wonderful returns.
L to R: Fred Broadwell, Lyle Estill, Joel Salatin, Tami Schwerin, Carol Peppe Hewitt, Janice Escott, Vance Remick, Roland McReynolds, and a couple of cattle farmers who joined in to talk to Joel about farming.
By facilitating low interest loans to local food businesses we can all enhance our local food shed and enrich our community. Here is how are putting our money to work.
Slow Money groups are forming throughout North Carolina. Let us connect you to the one in your area, or help you get one started!
A Taste of Tasch
“This enterprise that we are a part of, with its new organic farmers and the host of small food enterprises that are emerging to bring their produce to market, is about an economy that does less harm. It’s about rebuilding trust and reconnecting to one another and the places where we live. It’s about healing the social and ecological relationships that have been broken by hundreds of years of linear, extractive pursuit of economic growth, industrialization, globalization, and consumerism. It’s about pulling some of our money out of ever-accelerating financial markets and its myriad abstractions — called, with more than a little irony, securities — and putting it to work near where we live, in things that we understand, starting with food — creating a more immediate and tangible kind of security.”
from Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money, by Woody Tasch
