b'This is not about numbersdoing these numbers vs. doing those numbers. This is about reaffirming the primacy of words over the claims on our attention made by numbers. Reaffirming the primacy of relationships over the claims of transactions. Reaffirming the primacy of nutrition over the claims of cheap calories. Reaffirming the primacy of places over the claims of markets. Reaffirming the primacy of generations and seasons over the claims of milliseconds and algorithms. Reaffirming the primacy of putting back in over the claims of taking out. 8Adam Smiths invisible hand has been framing our views on free markets, manufacturing and finance ever since The Wealth of Nations came out in 1776. We are ready for a new ethos of investing. Maybe even a new myth.If that seems too philosophical, lets be quick to add that there is nothing more pragmatic than making low-interest or, even, 0% interest (yes! its true!) loans to local, organic farmers and small food enterprises. There is nothing more down to earth than re-localizing meaningful portions of our food supply and supporting a new gener-ation of family farms, particularly in the United States, which was at its founding a nation of small farmers and where, a mere century ago, more than a third of the population lived on farms. Today, the largest 65,300 farms generate more than half of the countrys farm revenue, and half of this, in turn, goes to several thousand mega-farms. In 1900, 40 cents of every U.S. consumer food dollar went to the farmer; today, it is less than 10 cents, with the rest going to inter-mediariesprocessors, distributors, retailers and the like; during roughly that same period, agricultures share of GDP dropped from 8% to 1%. Meanwhile, the financial sector has been roaring in the opposite direction. In 1882, the New York Stock Exchange reached 8 SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital, p. 50.18'