文档介绍：Praise for Financing Our Foodshed
Carol Peppe Hewitt zeros in on one of the key vulnerabilities—and
opportunities—in the local food movement. How do we finance the
essential shift away from big-box faux-food and toward regenerative,
regional food systems? The stories she tells are revelatory and inspiring.
She leaves readers with the confidence that local food makes perfect
economic sense, and with lots of practical ideas for how to spark the
transition.
—Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, author, The End of Growth
I wish I’d had Carol Hewitt’s Financing Our Foodshed when I was
writing the “ing Obstacles” chapter of Life Rules. Her rich trove
of stories about locally-anic vegetable and poultry farms,
farmer’s markets, restaurants, cheese makers, bakers, repurposers and
others engaged in Chatham County, North Carolina’s localization,
sustainability and post-carbon movements would have made perfect
proof’s-in-the-pudding accounts for my readers. With the establishment
of Slow Money NC, Hewitt and rades in farms, shops, small
businesses and trucking have removed the major stumbling blocks to
sustainable economic relocalization: financing, networking, market share,
and distribution. Her book’bination of why-to, how-to and already-
did is inspiring and very, very promising.
—Ellen LaConte, author Life Rules
With this entertaining and often moving account of her work, Carol
Peppe Hewett establishes herself the nation’s premiere practitioner of
peer-to-peer lending. She shows how ordinary North Carolinians with a
few extra bucks are able to provide critical support for dozens of great
local food businesses. She also shines a bright spotlight on what the
future of economic development should be. For anyone seriously
interested in boosting his or munity’s economy – including
politicians, policymakers, financiers, businesspeople, and activists – this
book is essential reading.
—Michael H. Shuman, author, Local Dollars, Lo