b'food systems and regenerative agriculture is surprisingly limited. Its a whole lot less little considering that it has happened informally, without professional financial intermediation. Why would folks attend so many meetings and do so much thinking and talking and learning and get so excited about moving bits of their money to local farmers and food entrepreneurs? It comes back to those glimpses of something profoundly hopefulglimpses of the possibility of structural change, glimpses of nurture capital, glimpses of a localization movement broad-based enough to truly and beautifully and peaceably counterbalance globalization, glimpses of the rewards of fixing things from the ground up, glimpses into our own hearts.32'