Slow Money founder Woody Tasch to speak in Alamosa

ALAMOSA –Woody Tasch is coming to Alamosa for a book signing of his second book, SOIL: Notes Towards the Theory and Practice of Nurture Capital. Slow Money founder and visionary Woody Tasch explains nurture capital as a vision of finance that begins where investing and philanthropy end, “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.”

Weaving poetry, prose and photography into a compelling vision, Tasch aims to answer the question: How can we fix what’s broken in our economy and our country through the entry point of local food systems?

“In the last 10 years of traveling around the country, speaking to many thousands of folks, from billionaires to farmers, I’ve seen that there is a hunger for nuanced, authentic conversation about what’s broken in food and finance, and a desire to do something at the community level,” Tasch said. “Local food systems are the entry point to fundamental social change and economic reform. People are ready to put their money to work in new ways.”

Tasch is the founder of the Slow Money movement and author of Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered.  In SOIL, Tasch calls on readers to take a little of their money out of Wall Street and traditional investing or philanthropy, and invest it locally in a small enterprise or small farm near where they live, on an individual basis or through Slow Money and SOIL networks (Slow Opportunities for Investing Locally).

“Put down that boring, tedious and depressing tome about our ecological and economic end times and dig into SOIL,” said Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies and author of Born on Third Base. “Slow Money founder Woody Tasch has penned a spectacularly original and entertaining book that connects the dots, keeps you smiling, and lifts up the best of regenerative agriculture, nurture capital, and community resilience From this imaginative platform springs the new story, the new mythology required to sustain our beings.”

Please join us for a book signing and reading on Monday, August 20th at the Narrow Gauge Newstand at 5:30 p.m. Additionally if you are interested in joining a SLOW MONEY group in Alamosa contact Julie Mordecai 719-580-0379 to be invited to a meeting directly after the book signing at her home.

About Slow Money:

Located in Boulder, Slow Money Institute, a non-profit organization founded in 2009, is dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that “bring money back down to earth.” The Slow Money movement was inspired by the vision presented in Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green, 2008) by Woody Tasch. To date, more than $66 million has flowed, via dozens of local Slow Money groups, to 697 organic farms and small food enterprises. Slow Money events have attracted thousands of people from 46 states and seven countries. Over 31,000 people have signed the Slow Money Principles. For more information visit https://slowmoney.org.

About Woody Tasch:

Woody Tasch is chairman and founder of Slow Money. As treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, and chairman and CEO of Investors’ Circle, Woody Tasch has provided leadership at the nexus of venture capital, social investment and philanthropy for decades. In 2011, Utne named Tasch “one of 25 visionaries who are changing your world.”