Beetcoin

The world's first non-crypto, non-currency supporting organic farmers and local food.

Insights

Woody Tasch, founder of Beetcoin and the Slow Money Institute, has written four books, each of which has been heralded.

A Call to Farms

Can enough of us steer, with requisite intention, in the direction of health and peace? Impelled by the war in Ukraine, this short volume explores the deep connections between food, nonviolence and new economic thinking. It has been called "a treasure of insight and inspiration" and "a recipe for cultural healing."

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AHA!

We're headed for the greatest, noblest, messiest, most meaningful AHA! of all time. To get there, we need to navigate anew our relationship with money, financial markets and the limits of economic growth. Which would be scary, if it weren't for all the beauty and community we can find on a parallel path.

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SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital

It is about billions and trillions of dollars in the global economy, and billions and trillions of microbes in healthy, fertile soil. Nurture capital is a vision of finance that starts where investing and philanthropy leave off, giving us a new way to reconnect to one another and places where we live, all the way down to local food systems and the soil.

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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live? Such questions—at the heart of slow money—represent the first steps on our path to a new economy.

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Slow Money Journal, Winter 2017/18

This issue features Daphne Miller, Jeff Moyer, Daniela Ibarra-Howell, William Bryant Logan, Sir Albert Howard, Elaine Ingham, Courtney White, and many more.

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Slow Money Journal, Winter 2016/17

This issue features Don Shaffer, Gary Paul Nabhan, Odessa Piper, Fred Kirschenmann, David Montgomery, and many more.

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Slow Money Journal, Spring 2016

This issue features Will Harris, Joan Gussow, Eliot Coleman, Narendra Varma, Stephen Grace, and many more.

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State of the Sector Report

This report analyzes data from the first five years of investing through the Slow Money network (2009–2013) along with data from a survey of 42 investment funds, family offices, foundations and angel investors over the same period, covering $293 million of investment in 968 food and agriculture deals.

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