Financing Our Foodshed (32 page)
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Authors: Carol Peppe Hewitt
LoMo,
67
Lula’s Café,
58–62
M
Mama Dips,
22
Marc,
155
Marcella,
30–31
Marie,
187
Mark,
105
McGannon, Bryan,
195
micro-distillery loan,
178–182
Miller, Don,
28
mobile farmers markets,
67
,
170–171
money
concern about,
112–113
conscious choices,
45–47
control of,
111–112
investment,
130
local investment,
157
need for loans,
4–5
power of,
114–116
Moser-Katz, Seth,
90–93
,
122–123
,
124
,
126–127
,
128–129
Mother Jones
magazine,
112
N
NC Botanical Garden Sculpture Show,
57
NC Support Center,
28
neighbors,
187–190
networks,
99–109
Nina,
105
the 99%,
113
Ninth Street Bakery,
23
,
190–195
No Small Potatoes,
159
North Carolina
CSAs,
3
farmers markets,
67
farmland loss,
4
North Carolina Organic Bread Flour Project,
143–150
O
the 1%,
113–114
Orr, David,
12
Ortosky, Mike,
100
P
Palmer, Abraham,
148
Panciuto restaurant,
92
Patrick,
93–98
Perry, Stephanie,
18–26
,
51
,
105
,
106
Piedmont Food and Agricultural Processing Center,
25
Poulos, Helen,
60
Poulos, Lula,
58–62
Price Chopper,
83
Puryear, Jordan,
14
,
16
,
100
,
189–190
R
Raleigh News & Observer
,
193
Reliable Cheese Company,
53–57
Reusing, Andrea,
100
Richard,
62
S
Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative,
58
,
59
,
71
,
72
Sanford, NC,
43
Saxapahaw General Store,
37
Scrap Exchange,
92
Screech,
59
Securities and Exchange Commission,
159
Shakori Hills Grass-Roots Festival of Music and Dance,
23
,
189–190
Shuman, Michael,
115–116
Simpson, Gary,
52
,
118
,
121–122
,
123–124
,
127
Sineath, Tom,
172
skid steer loan,
81
Slow Money
about,
11–15
additional benefits of,
152
as neighbor,
187–190
principles,
201
Slow Money National Gathering,
13
Slow Money NC
funding,
195–197
gatherings,
102–104
loans,
116
matching lenders and borrowers,
28
networking,
99–102
,
109
,
129
,
158–159
news articles,
106–108
objective of,
46–47
origin of,
14–16
publicity,
129
Smith-Overman, Maryah,
86–93
,
195
The Smoke House,
139–140
Soil Trust,
202
soups,
58–62
South Durham Farmers Market,
79
Southern Pines, NC,
133–134
Stasio, Frank,
108
Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) benefits,
67
Sustainability Tent,
189–190
Swain, Larry,
9
Sweet Cheeks Bakery,
27–33
Sweeties Vegan,
18–26
T
Tamashii,
155
Tarboro, NC,
134–135
TJ,
173
Townsend,
96
trains,
7
transit buses,
168–171
transportation
of local food,
163–168
transit buses,
168–171
trucking company loan,
163–168
t-shirt manufacture,
172–178
Tucker, Bobby,
148
2007 Census of Agriculture
(USDA),
3
,
4
U
urban farms,
86–93
USDA (US Department of Agriculture),
3
,
4
,
66–67
,
79
V
Vandermark, Aaron,
92
vegan food,
18–26
Vilgalys, Rimantas,
178–182
W
Weaver Street Market Co-op,
161
Weigl, Andrea,
193–194
Wilmington, NC,
155
Wilson, Abigail,
33–41
,
42–43
,
91
,
105
Wilson, Kevin,
134–135
Withington, Mackenzie,
79–84
Withington, Tucker,
79–84
,
85–86
Y
YKnot Farm,
69–74
Yunus, Mohammed,
189
Z
Zaytoon’s Restaurant,
150
C
AROL
P
EPPE
H
EWITT
is quirky, bossy, and aspires to be a troublemaker. She wrote this book on a dare, and Lord only knows what she might decide to do next. If you think that might prove fascinating Carol suggests that you might want to lower your expectations.
She keeps dead birds in her freezer, bits of dark chocolate hidden around her house, and is secretly plotting to kill her two cats so she can put out bird-feeders and spend the rest of her days watching birds.
In her dreams she is a famous dancer, but let me repeat — that’s
in her dreams.
Read this book if you have a few hours to spare, believe in local food, and might be easily swayed to putting some of your money where your mouth is. And because Carol is also consumed with getting several million dollars of Slow Money into the pockets and the soils of small farmers and of clever local food entrepreneurs in North Carolina and beyond.
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