b'James Ranch, Durango, ColoradOThe investment of these farmer-steward-entrepreneurs in their land and their community is remarkable and holds enormous hope (not entirely unlike an acre of fertile soil, that with each 1% increase in organic matter holds an additional 21,000 gallons of water), which hope is a noncommodity of such extraordinary innate value that no economist could ever analyze its true cost. 7How one understands the value of what these farmers are doing is the jumping-off point for an exploration of nurture capital. It shapes our intention. If we view farmers as producers of commodities for global supply chains, we have one kind of financial intention. If we view farmers as stewards of soil fertility and producers of healthy food for our community, we have another kind of financial intention. This notebook, and the slow money movement from which it springs, and the idea of nurture capital as a larger framework, are all explora-tions of intention. We are not just losing, or building, soil carbon; we are losing, or building, intention. Economic growth and fast money erode intention. 7 This particular word of caution should in no way be construed as a criticism of the Sustainable Food Trusts enormously productive project, conference and report called The True Cost of American Food.169'