b'If you ask an audience, How many people in this room think their health, their communitys health, the countrys health, the environment would all be better off if there were a million, new small and midsized organic farms?, a surprising number of hands will go up. If you bring it closer to home and ask, Would you like there to be more organic farms in your county?, a great many hands will go up. If you ask, Does the disappearance of family farms concern you?, general affirmation will ensue. If you ask, Does the industrialization of the food supply cause troubling long-term social and environmental problems?, a great many heads will nod. If you suggest that CAFOs and GMOs are in some sense mirror images of derivatives and CDOs 7 , that fast food is a reflection of fast money, you get more than a few AHA!s. If you share E.F. Schumachers postulates that unlimited economic growth on a finite planet is impossible and increased consumption is not synonymous with improved well-being, you get a bunch of AHA!s. If you share these words from angel investor Mark Cliggett, you get a lot of AHA-ish murmurs: I want to live in a community that has 10 companies with 100 employees each, but Im trained to invest in companies that have 1,000 or more employees. 8Then there are these words from Canadian social entrepreneur Christie Young: We just spent the day exploring the ins and outs of due diligence, securities laws, promissory notes, and how to organize public investor presentations, topics related to minimizing risk to the investor, but we know, dont we, that people will only invest in small farms what they can 7 Collateralized Debt Obligations8 Mark is a Seattle-based angel investor.85'