b'Ill see your bitcoin and raise you beetcoin. A noncrypto, noncurrency. Impervious to speculation and techno- utopianism. And guaranteed to elicit affection. Online platforms for individual transactions democratize finance but do not readily address the systemic challenges of relocalization. Can we build a broad-based crowdfunding campaign to empower local food communities? Can we develop an online funding community that sees its purpose not as enabling individual transactions but as feeding the local roots of systemic change? Heres how some of us are feeding those local roots.Were forming SOIL groupsSOIL for Slow Opportunities for Investing Locallythrough which were making 0% loans, by vote of our members, to nearby organic farmers and food enterprises. The groups are non-profit, with donations ranging from $250 to $50,000. 109'