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 […]
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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 […]
Solar farms are cropping up all over NC, in fact, all across the globe. And while they are an excellent idea – harvesting energy from the sun – they create an interesting conundrum. If they are built in a typical field, how does one keep the grasses and weeds from […]
July 28th 11:30 pm I have to say that was an incredible party. For days people have been asking me, “How many tickets have you sold? How many people do you think are coming?” And I would venture a guess. “Last time I looked we had sold 80 tickets online.” But then there […]
“somehow, i never thought it would be so hard to loan money to strangers with no security and almost no return” When this email arrived I laughed out loud. Because the funniest things are those that are true, or at least mostly true. Jeff, in his generosity, had heard about […]
Sami Glover’s article about us was also published by Treehugger, which is pretty darn awesome! Meanwhile we are working on several loans this week – like the one to Bella Donna in Pittsboro, NC and a couple to Cocoa Cinnamon in Durham, NC. And we sent out a fundraising letter, […]