Shopping Cart

We want to direct you to the right website. Please tell us where you live.

(This is a one-time message unless you reset your location.)

This eBook is available in PDF and EPUB formats.
Choose the preferred format for your device.

PDF
$17.95 $11.65 USD
EPUB
$17.95 $11.65 USD
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Pub. Date: 2013-04-01
ISBN: 9781550925180
Format: Digital - 224 pages
Size: 6" x 9" (w x h)
BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business

Financing our Foodshed (PDF)

Growing Local Food with Slow Money

In towns and cities across North America, a quiet revolution is underway. Fed up with sending their money off to make a fast buck in faraway markets, people are putting their money to work where they live, in markets they trust and understand-starting with food.

Financing Our Foodshed is a collection of real life stories of these Slow Money pioneers and the local food entrepreneurs-sustainable farmers, bakers, restaurateurs, and more-they have chosen to support.

Fueled by their desire to do more than just eat local food, lenders of "nurture capital" are making low-interest, peer-to-peer loans to the people who produce, process, distribute and sell local food. Meet these passionate food entrepreneurs like:

  • Abi, talented artist-turned-baker, who borrowed the funds to start a gluten-free bakery.
  • Angelina, owner of a Greek local foods restaurant, who refinanced exorbitant credit card debt incurred by renovations.
  • Chatham Marketplace, a much-loved grocery co-op whose monthly loan payments were reduced by a third, thanks to an ambitious collaboration between 16 investors.

Financing Our Foodshed tells the compelling stories of ordinary people doing something extraordinary, and will appeal to anyone who understands the critical importance of sustainably grown local food and resilient local economies, and wants a blueprint to get us there.

About the Author

Carol Peppe Hewitt is a business owner, social entrepreneur and life-long activist. She is cofounder of Slow Money NC which works to finance North Carolina's sustainable food and farming economy by connecting individuals committed to building local food systems with entrepreneurs who have compelling needs for capital. Growing up in rural Northwest Connecticut, Carol watched as working farms disappeared one by one. She now works to change that trend, guiding patient capital to sustainable farmers and food businesses in North Carolina.



Civilizing the State

Reclaiming Politics for the Common Good

by John Restakis


The New Sustainability Advantage

Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line-Tenth Anniversary Edition

by Bob Willard


Wearing Smaller Shoes

Living Light on the Big Blue Marble

by Chip Haynes


Escape from Overshoot

Economics for a Planet in Peril

by Peter A. Victor


Earth for All

A Survival Guide for Humanity

by Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh and Jorgen Randers