Carol Peppe Hewitt is co-founder & principal matchmaker of Slow Money NC, author of Financing Our Foodshed: Growing Local Food with Slow Money, and she writes these occasional blog entries. They tell of her adventures catalyzing peer-to-peer loans, and of traipsing around the country promoting all things local.
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POSTPONED We are disappointed to cancel this event, but caution makes sense these days. We will reschedule at a later date. Stay healthy, and please support your local farmers! Spring 2020 Slow Money NC Gathering! March 16th 6-9pm Chelsea Theater, 1129 Weaver Dairy Rd, Chapel Hill, NC Tickets here! 6-6:30pm […]
Climate change is serious, but it doesn’t have to be grim. At least not in the ways we come together to cope with it. We know it’s real and it’s terrifying. But, no one is better at turning serious, scary, and seemingly grim topics into open, easy, powerful, fruitful discussions […]
When this email arrived I laughed out loud. Because the funniest jokes are about things that are true, or at least mostly true. Jeff, in his generosity, had approached me about finding a local farmer that might need capital. So he drove a few miles down the road to meet […]
To the attendees at the Slow Money NC Spring 2017 Gathering… We are here to make sure there is asparagus in April, and tomatoes in summer, and broccoli in the fall. And oyster mushrooms growing magically all year round indoors. We are here because in a time of peak oil, […]
Boulted Bread December 21, 2016/by Carol Peppe Hewitt Editor’s note: This article appears in the Winter 2016/17 issue of the national Slow Money Journal. When Sam Kirkpatrick and Fulton Forde got together to open their bakery, Boulted Bread, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, they had an ambitious goal. They wanted […]
A while back I had the good fortune to talk with Frank Stasio, host of the NPR show, The State of Things. Frank is a thoughtful interviewer, and a fan of Slow Money. He was also instrumental in the opening of the Durham Coop in 2015 in Durham, NC. Here […]
Our Southeast four-day tour of “Running On Local” launched at the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance, just over the bridge from South Miami to Key Biscayne, on February 22th, 2013. On Saturday and Sunday afternoon we held court at the Sustainability Tent to talk about the re-localizing […]
by Carol Peppe Hewitt We rode the wave of progress and by the end of the 20th century our stores had filled up with ‘stuff’ from all over the world – as had our kitchen cabinets, and our bodies. Tangerines from Spain, dresses from Bangladesh and appliances from Japan. We […]