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Jun 6, 2022 11:10 AM ET ![2 parents smile while holding their child](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/SlowMoney-Photo1.png "0% loan recipients Blain Snipstal and Samaria King of Juniper’s Gardens (Brandywine, MD)") ![People sit outside in chairs arranged in a circle](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/SlowMoney-Photo2.png "SOIL Boulder meeting at Lone Hawk Farm, (Longmont, CO)") ![Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/WoodyTasch-photo.png "Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money") ![Slow Money logo](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_2x/public/images/WoodyTasch-logo.png "Slow Money logo") ![2 parents smile while holding their child](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/SlowMoney-Photo1.png?h=78ad2879 "0% loan recipients Blain Snipstal and Samaria King of Juniper’s Gardens (Brandywine, MD)") ![People sit outside in chairs arranged in a circle](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/SlowMoney-Photo2.png?h=120be428 "SOIL Boulder meeting at Lone Hawk Farm, (Longmont, CO)") ![Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/WoodyTasch-photo.png?h=8aeec913 "Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money") ![Slow Money logo](/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_thumbnail_x2/public/images/WoodyTasch-logo.png?h=acd11ccd "Slow Money logo") [Why Slow Money? ](https://greenmoney.com/why-slow-money/) by Woody Tasch, founder of Slow Money *Some Thoughts on Fiduciary Responsibility, Mutually Assured Destruction and Small, Diversified Organic Farms* Since the slow money movement’s first low interest loan to a local organic farm in 2010, more than $80 million has flowed to over 800 small farms and local food businesses, via volunteer-led groups in a few dozen communities. Events of the last few years have emphatically accentuated our shared concerns. The pandemic heightened appreciation of community supported agriculture and local food systems. If we want to preserve and restore small, diversified organic farms, we are going to fund them ***not only as consumers, but as investors***. Which is going to require new ways—slow, small and local ways—for capital to flow across the boundaries of investing and philanthropy. The Green Revolution and industrial agricultural systems are dedicated to increasing production via large-scale agricultural operations and global supply chains, in order to feed the growing world population. Since the mid-20th century, they’ve been doing this to a T, powered by synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, GMOs and other food and farming technologies. As the threshold of the new millennium arrived, something called “the food movement” emerged. Consumers in developed countries woke up to what was being degraded, ecologically and culturally, by the advent of highly-processed food. Community supported agriculture and farmers’ markets expanded. In 1989, Carlo Petrini famously pronounced when McDonald’s opened in Rome, *“We don’t want fast food. We want slow food.”* Slow food became a movement, linking hundreds of thousands of consumers, producers, chefs and food activists in many scores of countries, in support of indigenous food culture and biodiversity. ***Then, Slow Money came on the scene to address the investing side of things.*** Read Woody's full article here - ===== [![](/sites/default/files/Clients/GreenMoney-30thLogo.png)](/profiles/greenmoney-journal) ### More from GreenMoney Journal ###### [Sheconomy: What Happens When Women’s Financial Power Shapes the Economy ](/news/sheconomy-what-happens-when-womens-financial-power-shapes-the-economy) Mar 23, 2026 10:00 AM ET ###### [How the Cuban Missile Crisis Sparked a Career in Sustainable Investing: A Conversation With Cheryl Smith](/news/how-cuban-missile-crisis-sparked-career-sustainable-investing-conversation-cheryl-smith) Mar 18, 2026 1:30 PM ET ###### [Powering the Future: Investing in Grid Infrastructure](/news/powering-future-investing-grid-infrastructure) Feb 26, 2026 8:00 AM ET ###### [A Wealth of Uncertainty: Climate Change and Our Financial Well-Being](/news/wealth-uncertainty-climate-change-and-our-financial-well-being) Feb 24, 2026 10:00 AM ET ###### [A Just and Sustainable Built Environment ](/news/just-and-sustainable-built-environment) Feb 11, 2026 8:00 AM ET ###### [Mixed-Use: Green Housing and Social Enterprise](/news/mixed-use-green-housing-and-social-enterprise) Feb 9, 2026 10:00 AM ET ###### [Leading Trends in Sustainable Investing ](/news/leading-sustainable-investing) Jan 14, 2026 12:40 PM ET ###### [Redefining Investment Risks in the Energy Transition ](/news/redefining-investment-risks-energy-transition) Dec 31, 2025 8:00 AM ET